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April 21, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Strong hour on my spin bike. Felt good. Legs had a lot left if them. My Vitamix treat after the spin.

Red Vitamix 5200 blender on a dark granite counter filled with strawberries, mango chunks, berries, and milk ready to blend.
April 20, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Trying to abandon Quicken and make the leap to just using my bank website like the kids do these days. Terrifying.

April 20, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Trying to use the Paychex website and filled with rage over “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.”. Way to “upgrade”…

April 20, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Display MediaWiki job queue size inside your wiki

I wanted to find an easy way to show the current size of the MediaWiki job queue on WikiApiary. When you make changes to templates that are used on thousands of pages the queue can get backed up and it’s nice to have an easy way to keep an eye on this. The job queue is even one …

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April 18, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

April in Minneapolis.

Snow falling on a narrow creek winding through bare snow-covered trees in winter, photographed in black and white Snow-covered forest path winding between bare deciduous trees and snow-laden evergreen branches in deep winter conditions.
April 18, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Thanks to my buddy Kent for turning me onto The Gaslight Anthem. Started with The ‘59 Sound. Great album! #music

April 18, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

As you reflect on the gun bill vote yesterday, it’s worth watching Larry Lessig’s TED talk “We the People”.

April 15, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Explosion at Boston Marathon. Know only that Jim Bernard is fine.

April 15, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

On related news, the Boston Marathon iPhone app is really, really bad. Unfortunate. Such potential.

April 14, 2013 Jamie Thingelstad

Digging some ideas of putting Panic Status Board panels together with data from WikiApiary. Hmmm…

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