Chris Hardie's Blog

Welcome to my first blog post of 2010.  I didn't expect that my hiatus would be over a month long, but here I am in mid-January.
Thanks to those of you who took the time to complete my blog feedback survey at the end of 2009 - it was really helpful in understanding how my regular [...]

I'm doing some planning for the future of this blog, and I'd like your feedback.  Of course, you're always welcome to leave your comments in the comments section below, but I've also created a survey with some specific questions that I would appreciate your candid responses to.
It's only 10 questions, most are multiple choice, and [...]

I tried a little experiment with Twitter last week.  I see lots of folks talking about how to make money with social media exposure like Twittering, but hadn't yet seen anyone talking about how to give away money via the same.  So on Wednesday I put out a challenge that for each new Twitter follower [...]

All bloggers do it at least once in their blogging career.  It's remains pretty faux pas in my opinion, but here I am anyway.  You know what I'm talking about, don't you?
It's the blog post that only exists to note that I haven't been blogging much lately. Gasp.
Sometimes it can be a sign of a [...]

Every time I go on vacation or get a little bit of time to step back and think, I end up making long "to do" lists for myself.  The lists are about projects I want to start, books to read, things to learn about, people to get in touch with.  It's common for some significant [...]

I think I've raved here some before about the someecards website and how lovely I think it is.  I have to stay away from drinking liquids when reading it lest I spray said liquid all over the screen in choking laughter.  Many of the cards you can send are hilarious because they so concisely encapsulate [...]

I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on. First, some links:

Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the strange way the 11 PM Eastern network television calling of the election works, cognitive dissonance [...]

You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays.  I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can always follow me on Twitter directly or with your favorite blog/RSS feed reader/twitter tool or [...]

"I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try, but that was just a dream." #
Important lesson from the movie Atonement: always encrypt sensitive communications, especially love letters delivered by young children. #
Oh no, the U.S. military has realized that the Internet [...]

If I survived that high ropes course today, surely I can wean these kittens off of their bottles. #
What a lovely day, full of those moments C.S. Lewis described: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." #
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet. [...]