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It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.

If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...

I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.

My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.

I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot

The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site

We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.

Some books I just order, no hesitation. But when prices go above 200 US$ and postage follows close behind, my finger hesitates a bit over the buy button

No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.

Due to some odd circumstances, I ordered myself two copies of the same book.

Three new books on saltwater flies seem to be a perfect item for the Christmas wish list for any saltwater fly angler

I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.

Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.

Meeting up with a bunch of people and tying flies together doesn't just provide good company, but also education - and an easy shortcut to new fly names

It has been brought to my attention that my post about not postponing your fishing trips has caused a bit of friction in some relationships. I need to set a few things straight.

I have recently had a pretty decent injection of fly tying material to my stock. I call it the mothers’ yarns because it came from my own mother and my mother-in-law.

Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly

This is a film project that aims to highlight the value of some of Colombia 's main river systems, which have been hidden and protected for half a decade, and you have the opportunity to support the project.

Just the other day the Global FlyFisher crossed the 50,000 node nid mark in the database. GFF is a large site, but still far from any boundaries set by Drupal.

As many readers know, reading books is one of my passions in fly fishing, and the titles on my table right now perfectly illustrate why

The Danish Festival is over and I'm slowly getting used to talking to people who don't talk about fly tying and fly fishing. It's not easy!

Tomorrow I will leave for a couple of days of fly tying, being with good friends and maybe spending a little money on fly tying

Scottish fly tyer Davie McPhail posted something on Facebook that I think deserves a bit of attention.

I now officially hate - like in deplore, detest, despise, loathe - fly tying videos with fast forward sequences.