Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: March 2004


After a brief hiatus, Finishing Season is cranking up again. First up: a small site for medical staffing agency MedHire. Not a huge project, but a nice one. I should have some more of these rolling out this week, both on personal and professional fronts – stay tuned.

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Courtesy of my friend Sara, The Breast Cancer Site is doing for breast cancer what The Hunger Site does for starvation: a one-click thing that then earns financial donations from their advertisers. I love the theory of things like this, but… Well… Sometimes it’s too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. […]

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Mom always told me that working outside was a great way to get in shape. So I’m writing this from the back porch, where I’ve set up my laptop and my Aeron chair and a pile of stuff from my to-do list, all out in the sunshine. Personally, I don’t see it. 😉

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Hey, guys – thanks for all the feedback. I’ve brushed up a couple of tiny things and posted the new dreamsbay.com! Now for the next upgrade… With Flash and bells and whistles and stuff, to show off the work I’ve been doing lately! Yeesh, this is never done.

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Hey, everybody – after much hammering and polishing, the new Dreamsbay.com is about ready to roll out. I’ve posted it in all its glorious almost-readyness over at www.geoffreylong.com/dreamsbaybeta – would you all be so kind as to go over and kick the tires? Let me know what you think, and if you find any bugs? […]

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Okay, so while the last one is kind of painful to listen to, this one’s pretty cool. “January Visiting” is my continuing the spoken-word-over-music approach. I like the way this one came out a great deal. While “Sunday Afternoon” probably wouldn’t ever come near anything I’d ever release with my name on it (although it’s […]

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So, today I worked on a couple of projects, then got sick of coding and starting looking for something a little more fun to do. Since our Internet was down due to a dysfunctional DNS server, I wound up breaking out GarageBand and started fiddling around. What I discovered is that I am my own […]

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There’s a fascinating discussion going down over at Bill Coughlan’s Prometheus Unleashed. The topic: whether or not the Bush Administration isn’t so much “neofascist”, “neo-Reaganite”, or “neo-conservative” so much as “neo-Imperialist,” and whether or not a modern empire would be such a bad thing. No comments here, please – let’s keep this tempest in Bill’s […]

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My taste in music has been shifting somewhat lately. My favorite band is still Counting Crows, but while I can sing along to almost every song they’ve ever done, they tend to bring me down. And lately, there’s been enough other weirdness in my life that I don’t need any more down. (Move along, move […]

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Great Big Sea is playing right now in Baltimore, and I just found out about it. Dang it! *sigh* Well, on the upside, they have a new album, and it’s available on the iTunes Music Store. Go, go! Go now!

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