Hey Katy, What Happened to Your Site?

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My site perpetually suffers from Shoemaker’s Children syndrome. I spend a lot of my time making other people’s sites, or teaching people to make their own sites, and there just is never much left to maintain my own.

So, as an experiment, I’m replacing my woefully  out-of-date professional Web site with this here WordPress site, and I’m starting with the beautifully bare bones theme Toolbox developed by the excellent folks at Automattic.

My plan is to tweak and style and add content to this site as I have time. It’s pretty much the opposite of how I would advise any student or client to build their site, but hey, maybe I’ve been doing this long enough now that I can break my own rules.

In the meantime, if you want to know more about me and what I do, feel free to contact me.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Mike Daisey

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I’m an NPR junkie. I wake up to my local station, WNYC, every morning, and throughout the day I listen while I’m working at home. Years ago, This American Life was my gateway drug to NPR. They have a way of telling very human, straightforward, and surprisingly non-judgmental true life stories that are a refreshing alternative to the heavily manipulated “reality” shows that fill up the airwaves these day (I have my own guilty pleasures in that genre, more on that later). Continue reading →