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I'm an expat Californian who is obsessed with traveling to strange and exotic destinations in the former Communist Bloc. I also like tacos, beer, surfing, trapshooting, and the geopolitics of oil. I currently live in Arlington, Virginia and work in Washington, DC. Read more about me here, check out my photo album, or send me an e-mail.

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    Goodbye Movable Type, hello WordPress

    I ditched Movable Type and am now using WordPress for this blog. I wish I had switched sooner, as WP is a million times better than MT. The installation was incredibly easy and the wide variety of WP plug-ins have simplified many tasks that were a major pain in the ass with MT. [...]

    Dudes, update your RSS feeds for this blog

    If you are subscribing to this blog’s RSS feed, please update it to my Feedburner feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtHomeInTheWasteland. I’ll be migrating this blog to WordPress sometime this month so the other RSS feeds will be defunct.

    New banners

    I made a bunch of new banners because I’ve had the same ones for, like, two years or something. They’ll show up eventually, you’ll just have to keep refreshing or whatev.

    lindsayfincher.com: Over 300,000 served

    318,478, to be exact. That’s how many visitors lindsayfincher.com received in 2008. That’s 26,539 visitors per month and 870 per day. Not bad for a blog about nothing.

    Yes, it’s Excel. Shutup.
    Unfortunately, I’ve never really tracked data from past years so I have no idea whether the number of visitors has risen or [...]

    The Tamagotchi of blogs

    Via gchat:
    Adam: your blog is sad
    it needs someone to care for it
    if it were a digital pet, it would be dead

    Neglecting this blog

    Wow, a week in California really threw me off my regular posting schedule (ok, I never had one to begin with). I’ve got a ton of stuff to write about, but have been clearing out my RSS reader, catching up on e-mail, working out, playing Wii Mario Kart, and doing various other things. [...]