C&W Pen Type-A

If Helen of Troy was the face that launch’d a thousand ships, this pen, for me, was the campaign that launched a hundred more pledges (and still going). Yes, this is very first project I backed from Kickstarter – so it was essentially my first foray into the world of crowdsourcing.

If it wasn’t for this pen, my first impression of Kickstarter could’ve gone on an entirely different direction – like those commenters you see screaming “I’M NEVER BACKING ANYTHING FROM KS AGAIN!” Instead, it turned me short of a KS hoarder 😛

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Reviving the Blog

Apart from not being able to find a reason to post outside of Facebook, 1 I normally reserve the really lengthy posts for the blog, but short FB posts seem to get more interaction, so I ended up spending more time there the plugins that were integral to the blog functionality were sorely outdated and no longer maintained/updated – which opened the blog up to code injection and SPAM.

Instead of cleaning up the code, I decided to just take it down and start from scratch with new (hopefully more secure) plugins, and a less complex layout. 2 Another reason why I couldn’t just “update” the original code to match the newer requirements Read More

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Notes
1 I normally reserve the really lengthy posts for the blog, but short FB posts seem to get more interaction, so I ended up spending more time there
2 Another reason why I couldn’t just “update” the original code to match the newer requirements

CSS Test Page

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Kickstarter Reviews

This will be a perpetually updated “table of contents” page for the Kickstarter reviews I intend to put in the site. And since I’ve already backed more than a hundred projects, I imagine I could put in a fair amount of content related to it. Plus, most of the people who follow me are more interested in my thingamabobs than they are of my opinions on life or politics (although I will probably still post those once in a blue moon)

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