Rust Valley

I awoke this morning to find that Renesys, the company I work for, is featured in a business brief on the front page of the Business section of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They probably have no idea that anyone from Renesys lives and works in Pittsburgh.
The coverage is due to the what I [...]

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Hurricane Ike did more than knock out power to 130,000 people in and around Pittsburgh. It is shaping up to be the biggest power outage in 5 years, when power blackouts affected Internet-connectivity (and electricity, obviously) from Ohio and Ontario to the Eastern seaboard. This is all according to an excellent writeup on [...]

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a fantastically clever housewarming party that my partner Beth and I threw when we moved to Pittsburgh. That post remains one of the most popular on the site.
Recently, we were invited (well, “invited” is a stretch—more on that in a minute) to another very clever party. [...]

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According to the entire Interwebs, and more specifically this article at the Guardian, Google celebrates their 10th birthday this month. Sometime. Like maybe the 7th, or maybe the 13th.
In reality, Google is either 10 or 11 or 13 years old depending on how you count. The press is making a reasonably big [...]

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