Jul 29th :Monday Night: Jaguars Training Camp

Went out to watch the Jags training camp last night with Brandon Dyal and Sean Collins. Sean got there too late to see the Oklahoma drills, which were the highlight of the evening.

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Jul 24th : Wordpress app for the iPhone 3G released

The wordpress app for the iphone is available now, though you can’t seem to access it from the app store.

Unfortunately since I happen to be writing this from my iPhone I can’t copy and paste the link. I also really wish apple would open up the horizontal key pad that you can use in Safari [...]

Jul 23rd : France Passes Constitutional Reforms

As widely reported in the news, French President Sarkozy’s reforms to the constitution were passed yesterday by one vote over the two-thirds majority required.

As a young political science undergraduate I was very interested in the structure and distribution of power in the French political system. France is a semi-presidential system, which isn’t exactly unusual but [...]

Jun 18th : Shanty Town Shooting: My Recollection

At 9:45pm on Monday, June 16th Boston Tom (Thomas Provost) was shot in the doorway of Shanty Town pub up on 6th and Main in Springfield.

I was there out in the back patio area with my friends Annie, Sarah, and Steven at the time of the shooting. We heard two quick ‘pops’ and initially thought [...]

Jun 16th : Undergraduate Poetry!

Dug these up while looking through some old files… ahh I still like ‘em.

the space between

Christopher Olberding is a nation.
Christopher Olberding was Charles de Gaulle’s sails
on his way to Algeria,
And on the return to Paris, his cap.
Most will never see him,
Inferring his existence through his acts,
The martyrdom of Paul,
Europe giving way to the States.
I met [...]

Jun 12th : Two Years in Jacksonville: Reflections

I woke up this morning reflecting on the fact that it was just about two years ago that I stopped pursuing a doctorate in political science at the University of Florida, packed up my bags, left Gainesville once and for all and moved back to Jacksonville. I had to count backwards in time, not believing [...]

May 16th : Searching for Purpose

I created this blog largely to familiarize myself with developing custom WordPress themes and have since struggled to conceptualize what, if anything, would be appropriate to write in this space. This struggle is compounded by the fact that I own a web design company with it’s own, though neglected, blog and as a business owner [...]

May 6th : Unearthed Childhood Photos

My sister recently dug up some photos from a report she did in the fourth grade on “Her Favorite Relative”, which was, of course, me. God knows why, I was awful.Are you fucking kidding? Look how ripped I am
Early on the eve of the DinoDing Massacre

May 5th : First (real) post!

At the gentle and repetitive urging of GoDaddy I renewed my personal domain names that had been sitting around unused for a little more than a year. Faced with the likelihood that if I didn’t figure out something to do with them I’d be throwing a few dozen bucks to these empty domains in another [...]