It’s always brighter at the Sun
January 19th, 2008
I moved to Las Vegas in September to be a newspaper man. Or at least the “news” in newspaper man. I loved Washington and the Smithsonian, but I really wanted to work for a news organization. Out of the blue, I was invited to be part of a new, world-class team building a newspaper Web [...]
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November 14th, 2007
Last night I saw my first building implosion. After 65 years standing on the Strip, the Frontier came down in about eight seconds.
Read full postVegas Baby!
August 28th, 2007
After six years in the District of Columbia, I’m packing my bags for a job in Las Vegas.
Read full postWeb Scraping The Census With PHP
August 20th, 2007
The Census Bureau is a treasure trove of information about communities. But sometimes getting to the data and making sense of it takes a bit of work. It can be hard to find the data and even harder to wade through it. I wrote a little script to help automatically retrieve the data and graph it.
Read full postAcross The Great Divides
July 15th, 2007
I spent a few weeks out West, and I took some photos.
Read full postThe Four-Mile Trail That Isn’t
July 15th, 2007
The inaptly named Four Mile trail in Yosemite Valley is, in fact, just over four and half miles each direction. The Yosemite National Park Web site list the trail as “strenuous,” but it wasn’t incredibly taxing for the distance. Besides, the trail terminates at Glacier Point where, unknown to us, there was a bus stop, [...]
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