My parents live in Dubuque, Iowa.  Over the holidays it is common for me to make a pilgrimage from my home in Redmond (not far from the main Microsoft campus) to the Midwest.  Typically the pilgrimage takes me from SeaTac airport to Chicago O'Hare followed by a short hop to the tiny landing strip at DBQ.  This year on the four hour flight to Chicago, I decided to get caught up on a couple things going down in my little corner of the blogosphere.

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