Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Author: briansaghy
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The Hidden Costs of a Vanity Domain
Read More: The Hidden Costs of a Vanity DomainLately, as I’ve been looking at potentially shifting careers from Software Engineering to something more customer facing such as Developer Advocacy, I’ve really been forced to reckon with some personal technical debt – primarily this website, and most recently, my vanity e-mail address. Back in 2004, I felt amazingly fortunate to be able to register…
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My Favorite Street Names in Pittsburgh
Read More: My Favorite Street Names in Pittsburgh* Woolslayer Way* One Wild Place* Asterisk* Way* Mimosa Way* Day Way* Rodi Road
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While you were sleeping
Read More: While you were sleepingI moved this site. Notice, it is no longer on WordPress.com, but is now finally being hosted on my fancy shmancy long-time web host, Dreamhost. (Sign up with my promo code, SAGHYFREEDOMAIN, and get $82 off your first year and get a free domain name registration! Limited time only, where limited = basically forever) Note…
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False Shutter
Read More: False Shutter(An excerpt from some journal entries in Spain. 4/5/2006) They asked me to take their photo. I don’t know why. They are complete strangers on the street. The first words they said to me: <<¡Un Foto!>> They would never see it. Why do they want me to have a record of them of their stupidity…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 25-27] Recife. The Pretty. Bon Voyage
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 25-27] Recife. The Pretty. Bon VoyageI’m writing this nearly a month from the first day we arrived in Recife. It turns out that re-adjusting to life in the States is not only time consuming, but welcomes my attention more than reflecting on the trip. After dropping off our rental car (about a 45 minute procedure) we grabbed a cab to…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 23-25] Porto de Galinhas
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 23-25] Porto de GalinhasTravel Getting to Porto de Galinhas was going to be a bit challenging. Unlike Foz de Iguaçu and Iguazu, which were very small towns and easily navigable, Porto de Galinhas is located over an hour south of Recife. We had my smartphone with some offline maps, but no navigation. Renting a car in Brazil may…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car Doors
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car DoorsDoors Alex and I couldn’t help but notice for the first two weeks that not a single one of the bathroom doors in all of our accommodations worked without issue. Either the door would get stuck once you closed it and you’d have to push all your body weight to open it. Or the door…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South America
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South AmericaTravel This time, our flight was on a real Gol flight. The plane was substantially cleaner and newer feeling, with LED mood lighting, grey seats instead of vomit-green, and … magazines in the seat backs! What luxuries. We descended over São Paulo, South America’s largest city by population, and I was amazed at how vast…