Matt on December 30th, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a bike rider! Thanks to some quick research on
the Internet, we pulled down the older smaller bike and started practicing
yesterday. An hour one day and about 15 minutes the next with my holding his
shoulders a little bit, and we were successful! Here are some great pictures
of our brand new bike [...]

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Matt on December 28th, 2008

Sorry to all my friends and family that are just now hearing this. We haven’t
done the best job of getting the word out. We are expecting our third little
Van Winkle in May! We’ve been working on a good way to let folks know. I was
hoping to redo the family site starting with the news, but [...]

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Matt on December 27th, 2008

As my foray down the road of web 2.0 technologies continues, I’m trying out a new method of posting blog-like content to several sites at once – my own, twitter and facebook.  I’m intrigued by posterous.  I’ll let folks know what I think.  In the meantime, you might check it out:
www.posterous.com
Here is mine.
Peace!
Matt
Posted via web [...]

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Matt on December 4th, 2008

Well, I did an upgrade to the noname blog software tonight.  All seems to have gone well.  I also added a plug-in to help with search engine optimization.  I guess that might drive some more traffic to the site.  We’ll see.  (I wonder if it will force me to be better about writing)
I still have [...]

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Matt on December 4th, 2008

Well, it only took about a billion years, but I finally signed up on facebook.  Yay me! As far as I can tell, there are pluses and minuses.
The pluses

I’ve found a bunch of friends from both high school and college that I haven’t talked to in a while
I’ve extended my foray into social networking beyond [...]

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