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- Timeplots leads to a personal sporting milestone
- In which I eat the wrong type of hot pepper
- Burning Ben II
- Company retreat-July 2007
- Family history enshrined on a piece of wood
- Cucumbers and youth
- Aristotle's misleading ad
- 10th Anniversary Party for NGP and Dan Bern
- The Periodic Table of the Elements: exercising the old brain
- A cutting-edge solution to the beard-growing problem
- NGP celebrates what really matters
- A daytrip to James Madison's House
- My perspective on vegetarianism
- Sleep
- Company Retreat-July 2006
- You can call me Al
- Personal Democracy Conference 2006
- Building things -- concrete or otherwise
- The perils of thinking your kid is just like you
- Reflections on a Montessori pre-school weaving project
- Conference room table tennis at NGP, comfort sports
- Tug of war: kids beating adults
- Turning forty
- Fourth grade in Canterbury, England
- Family trips from Boulder to Vermont, and back
- This vehicle is parked illegally
- Intelligent design: how to talk about it intelligently
- NGP travels to Vermont for three-day retreat
- A passenger for my bicycle
- Completed: a purpleheart, cherry, and maple desk
- I do not like term "homeland security."
- Summer 1984: Computerland of North Denver
- My proof: Apollo was the Roman sun god
- A week in Vermont with family
- Coaching kids soccer: memories and observations
- Sixth grade after school basketball, an injustice, and competition
- Cornell vs. Yale, college choice, and a road not taken
- Soccer: old, but not yet ready for retirement
- How I met my wife, happy birthday, and real romance
- Clay figures and friendship
- Gardening, small motors, and useful neighbors
- Hackers, the hacker ethic, and beach reading
- The cathedral and the bazaar: more on open source
- Coming of Age in Cyberspace
- Too many books; trying to put order to them
- Learning about open source: Linus Torvalds
- Saw a great t-shirt for programmers
- Read the poet Mary Oliver
- See the awesome 1984 Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense
- Gun show and Margaret Cho
- One model of money management
- Stop naming your daughters Ella!
- Inside Intuit: learning from other companies
- Paranoia and navigating strategic inflection points
- British TV series "The Office": watch it
- Good and bad ways of spending money
- On owning a vehicle: postpone if possible
- Everything happens for a reason
- Stabenow and Levin: the Michigan Senate delegation rocks
- Shoji Hamada: A Potter's Way and Work
- Meetup now charging monthly fees
- Robin Hood was a Democrat
- What I will not be writing about online
- Foosball: luxury or necessity?
- Michael Gerber, E-Myth: technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs
- Self-promotion and marketing: black and white -- or color
- Disc Golf: A sport I love and hope you won't
- NGP Milestone: Incorporation, January 1997
- High School Intern for Congressman Tim Wirth, 1984
- Blue Ocean Strategy or Hardball: Thinking about Competition
- "Buckaroo Banzai": “Why is there a watermelon there?”
- "The Castle": Darryl versus Goliath
- Clear the field, or contest the primary?
- PoliticsOnline, Elephant Hunters, NGP, and Dave the Sniper
- I love the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- NGP Milestone: DC Democratic Fundraising Firms, 1997.
- NGP Milestone: Hillary Clinton for Senate, end of 1999.
- Too much business -- or too little
- Good eggs and bad eggs
- Doing new things
- On taking vacations; leaving today
- What I learned from Colorado Boys' State, 1983
- Bloggers, journalists, political scientists and political practitioners
- Programming Instructor, Rocky Mountain Computer Camps, 1982-3
- Corporate blogging: thoughts from a company founder
- NGP Software Training in DC today
- Found metal sculpture: Heise Metalwork
- Joe Trippi's 100 dollar revolution, some reservations
- Why life is good; the little things
- Collecting weird things: potato chip bags
- A solution to tax cheating: a national lottery for the IRS
- Fence sense; or doing it yourself
- Partisanship and political technology
- Politics Online Conference this week
- "Forum" at Young Entrepreneur's Organization
- Perspective and the relevance of a old job today
- Potters, the values of craftsmen, and living true to self
- Jimmy Carter, woodworking, and doing what you love
- You never forget your first -- My Apple II computer
- Re-redistricting: spectator sport for partisans
- New Enterprises, INDN's List, Mini-Society and Ticket Scalping
- Canvassing for COPIRG: anthropology and political geography
- A Gary Hart Democrat
- My First Paid Programming Project, 1984
- Data Analysis with Edward Tufte
- Baltimore Trip
- American Politics with David Mayhew
- Campaigns May Wield Redistricting Tools, Revisited
- Computer Science with Alan Perlis
- Exhortations