The personal web site of DeVon Roberts

I recently returned to Columbus (Ohio) after a week in Seattle, WA on vacation.  When I mention having visited Seattle, most people ask why we went there, if we had family or what the deal was.  People in our hotel even asked why we would want to visit Seattle from Ohio.  One reason is shown in this photo – flatness.
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Could use some more it seems.

With green and red bell peppers from the local farmer’s market and habaneros from a freind’s garden, hopefully this stuff turns out full of flavor with a good deal of heat!

Finally seem to have things here in this page like I want them, at least for now. I caught this article entitled Your Blog is Your Mothership on Web Worker Daily. It was cool to read that my idea to centralize my social media / Interwebxistence into one central place seems to make sense.

Also started reading Trust Agents. Am very interested in what this book will say about reputation, trust, confidence, and building a respected name for yourself on the Internet via these social channels. There are so many networks and my take so far is don’t worry so much about what network you are on and focus on the quality of the content in that network. The value is in the relationship you have with the people in these circles.

Welcome to my personal web site! I have been posting around the Internet in assorted social networking sites and I wanted to clean this all up and use one place that I have complete control of.  As I get through other places I expect more and more content to appear here and for this page to become my central hub of posting to the web.

As for the backhoe, the township came out to fix some drainage problems recently.  The water seems to be fixed but they left a large hole in the front yard there.  Lots of gravel as well.  Topsoil is on the way at some point with some grass seed to fix this up.

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

- J.K. Rowling

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

- Dale Carnegie

I think I Just drove past a Google maps vehicle. Small van with all these cameras on top in all directions and flashing yellow lights.

So at some point I might appear in the street view of this intersection
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