I have always admired people who seem to be successful while still remaining gracious and humble. It inspires me to do more with my life because it shows me that you can be both successful and likable. If you read my blog, you are probably a geek who likes his or her computer. You might [...]

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Yeah, this time it’s not Congress (phew). WordPress Consutant Bill Erickson is offering his services to one lucky website owner in his “WordPress for Clunkers” contest. WordPress isn’t just the best blogging platform on the planet–it is also a content management system capable of building anything from a brochure site to a powerful site like [...]

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Today, I joined the Rackspace team. It’s been a few months because we were trying to find the right fit, but I think we finally did it. I will say that I really like everyone I’ve met so far and am very optimistic about this opportunity. Basically, Jim Curry (@jimcurry) and Mark Collier (@sparkycollier) work [...]

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So I got an email from Matt at WebHostingBuzz that we are going to start a Twitter blog. He is at PubCon and saw that Microsoft was doing it and thought it was cool, so now we are. Me being me, I was naturally jealous. Why? It’s not that I care to see a presentation [...]

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So out of the blue, I get an email from Heather at the Science Channel in New York asking me to be a Managing Editor for a blog they want to launch about the Austin tech scene. I 1.) pinched myself and 2.) gave her a call the next day to see what this was [...]

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When Lisa Goddard from the Capital Area Food Bank first told me that hunger was unacceptable, I kindly agreed with her and grabbed a Clif Bar to munch on. But then I realized that she was talking about the thousands of people who are on food assistance right here in Austin. Here are some statistics [...]

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