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markmcb (a.k.a. Mark A. McBride) was last seen 3 days ago on 09 May 2008 and has a NerdRank of 7. markmcb joined as the 1st OmniNerd, since 18 February 2005

14 Articles [search by this author]
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  1. Serving a Website from a Home Network on Mac OS X written about 1 year ago, 1 comment
  2. Processing Credit Cards with Ruby on Rails written about 1 year ago, 8 comments
  3. A World of Languages: An Interview with Simon Ager written about 1 year ago, 17 comments
  4. State of the Nerd 2006 written about 1 year ago, 23 comments
  5. Rebuilding a Kellogg 1000 Series Phone written over 3 years ago, 5 comments

166 Current Events [search by this author]
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  1. Ruby on Rails Nears 2.0 Release written 7 months ago, 0 comments
  2. OmniNerd Version 3 Nearing Beta written 9 months ago, 0 comments
  3. Capistrano 2.0 Released written 9 months ago, 0 comments
  4. Get Ready to Upgrade That Mac OS written 11 months ago, 3 comments
  5. Building a Better OmniNerd Society written 11 months ago, 35 comments

8 Blogs [search by this author]
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  1. Home Network 2.0 written 2 months ago, 6 comments
  2. OS X Keyboard Shortcut Junkie written 5 months ago, 3 comments
  3. OmniNerd Front Page Update written 6 months ago, 0 comments
  4. 500 errors and more written 6 months ago, 1 comment
  5. Preserve Rails Ferret Index with a Symlink and Capistrano written 7 months ago, 0 comments

27 Polls [search by this author]
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  1. Number of languages I speak? written about 1 year ago, 15 comments
  2. When I comment on OmniNerd I? written about 1 year ago, 4 comments
  3. My primary home operating system? written over 2 years ago, 29 comments
  4. Home theater? written over 2 years ago, 12 comments
  5. The cause of the next world war? written over 2 years ago, 13 comments

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  1. Live Blog Coverage of MacWorld Keynote written 3 months ago, 2 comments
  2. Super Suite Deal - Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac written 4 months ago, 0 comments
  3. Ruby on Rails 2.0 Released written 5 months ago, 2 comments
  4. Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 1 written 6 months ago, 0 comments
  5. SuperHappyDevHouse 21 written 6 months ago, 0 comments

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type sumavg sumavg sumavg
articles 121 8 35 2 90,126 6,437
current events 1,113 6 8 0 359,383 2,164
blogs 64 8 46 5 10,878 1,359
polls 491 18 2 0 9,379 347
links 5 0 21 3 1,433 204

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You may have found me very quiet on OmniNerd these days. While I still read the site frequently, most of my development efforts are going to Athlo.com, a new athletics site project that I'm working on. We've got a lot ideas we're going to roll out, so check it out if you're into working out, staying fit, or training for events.

Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero

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Sweet Virginia's

When I'm not coding OmniNerd, I like to help out some friends from my home town who sell coffee and toffee at Sweet Virginia's. I started helping them out in Jan '07 and offered to build a site that could take on-line orders to help expand their business. So, Starbucks Schmarbucks and Hershey Schmershy ... as of February '07, I import all of my coffee and toffee needs from Texas! :-) I recommend the toffee big time ... it is AWESOME.

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