I hate to say it, but today is Patrick Ragsdale's last day as director of hackology at Hammock Inc. His actual title was something other than that, but I could never remember the official one. As Patrick touched about everything in the office that plugged in -- and knew how not to get shocked while doing so -- he'll be missed.

We've known for several weeks that he's leaving to take a job more focused on his lifelong love of tying string between Campbell soup cans -- or something like that. During the past few weeks, Patrick has helped us put together the support resources necessary to keep our technology up and running and we feel confident that when we arrive at work next Monday, everything will boot up properly. We'll be announcing other tech-related developments in the coming months, as well.

We wish Patrick all the best. We'll miss you. But we'll keep up with you on your blog.