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Peter Grossman, RIP

June 14th, 2006 · Comments · Personal

I’ve been offline for the past couple of weeks with family, dealing with the unexpected passing of my father. For me, he was an endless source of friendship, inspiration, humor, wisdom, intellectual energy, and challenge. A good family friend wrote a letter about him that captured his spirit–here’s an excerpt:

Peter. He had a [...]

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Maintenance

March 24th, 2006 · Comments · Blogging, Personal

Due to frustration with this site’s performance–it sometimes takes too long to load–I’ve decided to switch web hosts. That in mind, aventureforth.com (and email) may be flaky for the next day or so. Things should be back by Monday, hopefully faster than before.
If you use Wordpress and are considering a move of your [...]

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My BlogRoll

December 28th, 2005 · Comments · Blogging, Personal

I’ve posted a list of the blogs I track regularly (apologies to feed subscribers who are seeing this twice–technical SNAFU).
In any case, take a look; if there are other blogs I should be tracking, please let me know.
Update: I just realized that the list I sent is missing a number of the blogs [...]

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Site Upgrade Complete

December 27th, 2005 · Comments · Blogging, Personal

Software upgrade seemed to go smoothly–everything should be working. If you have problems, please send an email or leave a comment to let me know.
For what it’s worth, the upgrade won’t result in many obvious changes to the site’s front-end (ie interface and layout will stay the same); it’s mostly a reworking of the [...]

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Site Upgrade in Progress…

December 27th, 2005 · Comments · Blogging, Personal

I’m about to upgrade A Venture Forth’s backend software (going from Wordpress 1.5.2 to 2.0). That in mind, please excuse any flaky performance. I’ll post again once things are back to normal.

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