the mario blog

I am back on the blog. My parents just left town, and it’s time for me to start blogging again. It has been too long. A longer personal summary is in the works.
Anyhow, I am working on a little project at work right now and I am doing a little test. It’s for a presentation [...]

My parents have arrived in Portland, and here’s what that means:

 Otto gets fed about twelve times a day, with whatever his little cat heart desires.
 When he isn’t eating, Otto plays with one of the dozens of toys that my mother has brought him. The highlight —some sort of fur tail that my mother claims to [...]

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I apologize for my lack of posts. Life has been packed with lots of business travel, weddings and well…publishing a book.
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After many years of being a happy Typepad customer, I have decided to make the switch to Wordpress. Through my experience at work, I’ve seen first-hand that Wordpress is a more powerful blogging platform that especially has some real advantages when it comes to organic search. For now, themarioblog will be hosted on Wordpress.com but [...]

As part of my ongoing effort to give meaningful and educational presentations about today’s hot topics, I will be presenting at the next Ignite Portland event.

What’s Ignite Portland? Here’s what the friendly folks at Ignite had to say about Ignite:
A bunch of fast-paced, interesting
presentations – 20 slides for 15 seconds each. Our mantra is [...]

I hardly ever have other guest bloggers (easiest way to lose readers is to introduce them to other better writers), but my friend Jesse’s Christmas story was just too good to turn down. For any of you who don’t know Jesse, he’s one of my first good friends in the US and has been so [...]

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We finished the marathon. I won’t run a marathon for a long time. My dad won’t walk for a long time.  Here are the marathon chronicles.
3 months ago: My mother decides it would be a good idea for us to run a marathon together as a family. My dad and I object. She makes us [...]

Here’s a video of Ben at dinner in Boulder last night. Him…inapppropiate as usual. Me…filming such, inappropriately as usual.