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		<title>old blogger, new tricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot lately, and as I work to tweak and promote and refine everything that I&#8217;ve written I&#8217;ve been locked in this reality of the internet in its current state: that blogs are all but dead media. I was going through my bookmarks the other day and it was almost depressing how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been particularly terrible at updating this blog over the summer. I mean, look. I&#8217;ve been doing a crapload of writing&#8230; just not here. Over the summer I ramped up my niche blog count to three &#8220;daily&#8221; blogs, including A Blog from Nowhere which has been live for going on a little over 9 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m gonna go on about this all day and probably longer, but today—as I write these words and post them on April 20, 2026—is my blogiversary.&#160; On April 20, 2021, I was sitting in a hot little studio apartment in mainland Vancouver having just moved out there for work and I decided to write an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Along with the hundreds of thousands of aging finger prints atop the keys, I’ve let a bit of dust accumulate on my keyboard lately.&#160; It was not for lack of writing. Mostly. See. Late last year I found myself in need of a new computer. It was a mostly obvious choice. I’ve largely ditched Windows [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One word that sums up your theme for 2026. Hey look! New year, new template. So, um…. that’s not exactly a rule, but when I rebooted this blog space back in April I tossed up a placeholder template to get me started, customized it lightly and kept rolling. (Well… typing and posting.) It was solid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m sitting in a coffee shop trying to do some writing, but first I needed to get some words off my chest: this was fifth out-of-the house writing location I tried. It’s shortly after lunchtime on a Monday in October and the first four locations I tried—including three other cafes and the local public library—were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I relaunched this site back in April I suggested that I would try not to write too many navel gazing posts about the blog itself.&#160; I mean, to be fair, I like reading about how the sausage is made—as it were. I wish a lot more people who maintained personal websites and writing projects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Starting with an aside, I’ll just note that it drove me nuts when the company that makes and runs that dystopian social network—you know the one—decided to call itself meta. Many wager that they stole the term from Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash which itself was a fiction-shaped social commentary on the explosive expansion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not a game.&#160; I did the math. I was exactly half the age I am today when I wrote my first blog post. Maybe that’s nothing. Maybe that’s everything. I’m not sure I’m equipped to tell you either way. Take my age today, divide by two and that many years, months, days ago [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s all well and good to write about writing but at the end of the day you’ve really just got to sit down and do it. It’s mid-June and Father’s day is approaching. This is something of an anniversary for me because on the day after Father’s day, two years ago, I had a meeting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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