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2009 Facebook Meme
Posted by Brandon Konkle on December 29, 2009.
This 2009 year-end recap has been going around Facebook this week, and I thought I'd go ahead fill out it. This has been a pretty eventful year, so this definitely doesn't cover the half of it. I may post another ...
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My First Few Days at Panlocal
Posted by Brandon Konkle on November 8, 2009.
I've been creating my own web sites since I was 13 years old, and over the last several years it's grown to become the primary focus of my free time. I began to pursue a side business in web development, ...
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Embracing Minimalism
Posted by Brandon Konkle on October 6, 2009.
Over the course of the last year, I've slowly gone through a major shift in my philosophy about life. I've begun to see the great value of minimalism, and as a result I've begun to strive for elegant simplicity. For ...
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Settling In After the Move
Posted by Brandon Konkle on July 21, 2009.
We're finally starting to get settled in to the new apartment, thanks in large part to some wonderful work by my brother, Gabe, on our living room curtains. Thank you very much, Gabe! They look fantastic! It's been hard to ...
Returning to the Real World
Posted by Brandon Konkle on June 29, 2009.
It's been quite awhile since the last time I wrote in this blog. The previous entry helped me find closure on the issue of our miscarriage, and after that I poured myself pretty heavily into things like programming and getting ...
The Rollercoaster Can Stop Now...
Posted by Brandon Konkle on February 7, 2009.
It has been quite an eventful couple of months. When I last wrote, we were just heading into our Christmas Vacation with no idea what a rollercoaster ride we were about to get on. The Saturday after Christmas, Barbara and ...
Christmas Vacation
Posted by Brandon Konkle on December 19, 2008.
This Christmas, I've been lucky enough to get the week off! I requested it back in January, but when I transitioned to this new software engineer position I wasn't sure that I would still have the days off. Luckily, my ...
My Transition to IT
Posted by Brandon Konkle on November 12, 2008.
I'm excited to report that this week I was offered a position as a software engineer/developer for the company I work for! Up until now I've been working in the operations and customer service segments of my company and I've ...
A car, a critter, and a computer. . .
Posted by Brandon Konkle on October 27, 2008.
It's been an eventful weekend! Car Friday, on the way home from work, my Focus broke down and I had to pull over on the side of the highway. I recently replaced the battery because the original one from 2002 ...
New website!
Posted by Brandon Konkle on October 19, 2008.
Welcome to the new TheKonkles.net! This website is the culmination of a lot of learning about how to interact with external APIs in order to create "mashups" of popular services. After a lot of experimenting, I settled with FriendFeed as ...