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Here’s a blog I will be following: Dinkstrong. What is it? Well, it’s about a girl named Danielle (nickname: Dink) who has Hodgkins Lymphoma. I’ve ‘known’ Danielle through the TonyandPals.com messageboard for years and years. I’ve seen her posts about music, opinions and life in general and finally met her about a year ago at a party in Watertown. It seemed like we talked all night as if we had so much catching up to to, even though we don’t know each other at all. Today, I’ve found myself thinking of her a lot. I’ve never known anyone (who was this young) who has had cancer believe it or not.

Anyways, she’s started a blog about her experiences to come. I will definitely be reading as will many others. Will you?

Inspired by Lokesh’s book post, here is what I’m currently reading:

I: The Creation of a Serial Killer by Jack Olsen - The Happy Faced Killer, Keither Hunter Jesperson. I dig this one a lot.

Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs - Fictional story about a home shopping network and its employees. Haven’t gotten too far in this one yet.

ppk on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch - Think Designing With Web Standards but for JavaScript.

Codin’ For the Web by Charles Wyke-Smith - Get started building dynamic websites with PHP

So here I am in May ‘08 with a new blog. I just had my 24th birthday and that was pretty great.

I’m still working as a web developer (mainly front-end) but looking to learn more elements of the back-end and also SEO/SEM. I’ve been reading a few blogs such as HubSpot’s Marketing Blog, Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing blog, Uncle Peppers and random others.

I really dig Twitter and make sure to throw a message up every so often. Make sure you follow me.

Currently, I am reading Codin’ For the Web by Charles Wyke-Smith - I recommend for novices out there.