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  • The Real Jacob Davenport

    A friend from twenty years ago got in touch with me through Facebook, and she asked if other people from college had contacted me. No, they had not, but it should have been easy to find me, since I’m an early hit on Google for “Jacob Davenport”. But she pointed out that there are many…

    September 25, 2011
  • Most popular pages

    The two most popular pages on this site are How To Solve the 5x5x5 Rubik’s Cube, and 20 Reasons Not to Have Children and 10 Reasons to Have Children, in that order. The first page I wrote a long time ago when I was trying to solve the cube, got stuck, went online to find…

    January 11, 2010
  • Upgraded

    On WordPress 2.8.5. Ain’t free software grand?

    October 27, 2009
  • New Site

    The site seems reasonably well set up.  I think I have all my old pages over, and I am fixing redirects so that old links still work.  If I’m wrong and you want me to fix a page, email me.

    October 4, 2009
  • WordPress

    Let’s try a WordPress blog, shall we?

    September 17, 2009