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Emily and I are heading out on Friday for a little vacation in my ancestral homeland (northern Illinois) to hang out, play games and drink like fish with my extended family. This is just a little post to say hi and check in on things me-related before we leave.
It’s worth mentioning that this blog was [...]

Long time readers of this blog may have noticed a certain… lag in the posting frequency around here. I could trot out the usual excuses of my relative hectic schedule and demanding lifestyle, but the truth is, my Internet habits have changed in the last couple of years.
Some time ago I switched my work schedule [...]

…well it’s my blogoversary too.
This bad blog was begun in the wee hours of April 15th, 2004, making us six years old today. Please send cake.

I just watched this web video interview with ProBlogger scribe Darren Rowse in which he admonishes new bloggers to blog abut subjects they have some expertise in. This is really good advice — it makes the blog in question not only interesting and entertaining (assuming the blogger has some writing chops and a winning personality) [...]

I’ve got several blog posts brewing — linkdumps and rants about non-violence and the efficacy of war and facebook privacy nonsense — but with the semester ending and the holidays in full swing, they all have to wait a bit. Stay with me though, things will pick up around here before too long.
Two quick bits [...]

I knew this was coming. I read the security warnings and everything. I just put off upgrading my WP install and I was hacked.
As a security measure, I just deleted any user account I wasn’t 100% sure was owned by a human. If your Candleblog subscriber account was nuked, my apologies, but it’s easy to [...]

Congratulations to the fine ladies of The House of LeMay for bringing home the 2009 Daysie for Best Vermont Blog (non-political)! At last year’s Daysies party they made it abundantly clear that their much-mascaraed eyes were on the prize in 2009. I bow at their impressively clad feet. Candleblog is proud to be in the [...]

Seven Days has released it’s annual readers’ choice awards ballot, asking Vermonters to vote on everything from their favorite restaurant to their favorite newscaster. Candleblog has been honored to receive the Best Vermont Blog (non political) “Daysie” for a few of the last several years. After winning the award last year, I predicted that my [...]

Those of you who have been around the Candleblog block a few times will remember that it used to be a group blog with as many as 5 different authors. Most of those folks rarely ever contributed anything (kind of like I so rarely contribute at The Contrarian) and eventually I cut things back so [...]

My friends at Found Line in Burlington have developed this really simple, elegant and USEFUL web app for aggregating various tagged social media feeds in one spot. It’s cleverly called tagnabit. Based upon their successful Vermont Town Meeting Day aggregator and subsequent Alliance for Community Media conference site, tagnabit lets you enter a tag of [...]