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Nick • June 15, 2010
This little site that I started almost two years ago is starting to hugely out-grow its skin. I’ve been talking to a number of people over the last few weeks who have made a bunch of very valid criticisms regarding the design, some of the pages, functionalities, etc. So over the next few weeks (probably [...]
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Nick • April 27, 2010
After a few months of work, Dan and I are finally ready and excited to re-launch Foodie Fights! If you aren’t familiar with what Foodie Fights is, here’s some background. Last year, Dan and I came up with the idea of having an Iron Chef like battle on our sites (My Entry and His Entry). [...]
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Nick • February 23, 2010
When was the last time you had a really fantastic shopping experience? Do you even remember? I actually do. A few months ago I was in the market for some new jeans. I had a sneaking suspicion that I’d been wearing the wrong size jeans for, well, my entire life. I find retail shopping to [...]
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Nick • February 5, 2010
Over the last few months, I’ve been playing around with different ad networks for the few ads I display on Macheesmo. I try to keep ads unobtrusive and ideally they would be useful. I’ve noticed over the last few months though that sometimes the ads being served have been neither of those things. The spot [...]
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Nick • January 26, 2010
It’s winter now and I don’t know about you, but I’m cold. It’s rainy and gross in DC these days and all I really want to do is curl up on the couch with a big bowl of chili and call it a day. Of course, life gets in the way and instead of making [...]
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Nick • January 8, 2010
For the last two weeks or so, I’ve been spending some spare hours trying to upgrade Macheesmo to a new WordPress Theme. It’s one of those semi-thankless parts of blogging. I want some of the new functionality with the latest WordPress (like the ability to respond to individual comments), but that means I had to [...]
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Nick • May 6, 2009
On Friday, Betsy and I are going on an almost two week vacation to visit some friends in England and her brother in Amsterdam. We are going to swing through Scotland for a few days as well. I’ve never been to any of those places, so I’m really excited to see new places, eat new [...]
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