{"id":488,"date":"2007-05-09T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/488"},"modified":"2007-05-09T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:52:48","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/488","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While perusing a friend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/threerubberduckies.net\/\">new site<\/a> this evening, I realized that it has been a<em> long long<\/em> time since I last blogged. That&#8217;s just no good. A lot has been going on&#8230;so let&#8217;s play catch-up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen&#8217;s sister had a baby! That put me in New York City for a few weekends in mid April. Welcome to the world, Matthew.<\/li>\n<li>I missed out as a bunch of my friends headed to San Jose for CHI2007. From the pictures, it looks like they had a great time. 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