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Archive for April 2008

New domain

Posted by: meaplet on: April 17, 2008

Sorry, RSS readers! You got an unexpected surprise today in the form of all the entries you’ve read before… given to you again, as a bountiful gift from WordPress. This is actually exciting news because it means that I spent my lunch break fiddling around and linking the blog to the meaplet.com domain, which I’ve […]

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And another one thing

Posted by: meaplet on: April 16, 2008

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I did some blogging elsewhere–and came out about my obsession with data. At least I didn’t go into details about how Tax Day excites me because of the abstract thought of the amount of data that gets collected and the cool analysis you could do on […]

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Pliny the Younger: Blogger?

Posted by: meaplet on: April 16, 2008

In the updated version of his Safire’s Political Dictionary, William Safire traces “blogger” to mean something like “person who persuades opinions and communicates by the written word.” He claims that it goes back as far as Pliny the Younger. Now, when I first heard this, I thought it was total bullshit. But the more I […]

Bernal Heights

Posted by: meaplet on: April 6, 2008

I spent today having bicycle adventures in Bernal Heights. I read last night that the loop around Bernal Heights is almost exactly one mile and a good place to do laps/hill training, so I decided to check it out. First, of course, that meant biking up to the top. I did a couple of laps […]