Kevin Purdy

What is happening?
Since the last time I dropped some HTML here (2008!), quite a bit has changed for the Purdman. Here’s the traffic-friendly listicle version:

Moved to Rochester: I started at the University at Buffalo in 1999, and have lived in Buffalo—minus a 1.3-year hiatus in Sandusky, OH—ever since. Rochester’s only an hour and a half [...]

I was a contributor at Buffalo Buffet, the Western-New-York-centric food blog run by my good friend Andrew Galarneau, from its earliest inception.
Buffalo Buffet, however, is no more. Now the focus is wider, the posts meatier, and the site a bit more agile and active. I’m helping him launch One Big Kitchen, and so far, it’s [...]

If you’re a return visitor, you might notice that I’ve changed the looks of this place. Let me tell you, it’s a lot more fun than house decorating, but it involves just as many challenges.
For those who follow WordPress minutiae, I made the move from the PressRow theme, designed by Chris Pearson, to Cutline, which [...]

… allows me to try my hand at the art and craft of productivity blogging?
Well, this, namely.

It also partially explains why I haven’t had a post up here in a while, because I’m doing my own life-hacking and working to fit all my schedules together.
I’m looking at the upcoming weekend as one of the last [...]

I’ve posted up some news-type clips and a little video work I’ve dabbled in over in the next two tabs, and I rounded out the About section with contact information.
To do: Make the sidebar a bit more interesting, give my friend and like-minded blogs some love in the blogroll, and, uh, post about something other [...]

This is the first post on my new, blog-driven, Wordpress-powered personal Web site.
Basically, I’m trading the pride of being able to display the Made with Notepad badge, like on my old site, for a slicker look and ability to update without searching through 300+ lines of HTML.
Articles, projects and even multimedia stuff coming soon. I [...]