So Spring has decided to rear its head in Portland. I love the sunshine and the opportunities to get outside and get things done. (Garden beds are done… mostly!) Continue reading ‘Spring is hitting… hard’
I want an iPhone just so that I can play with this. Nice.
I am fully into day three of a Southern adventure. Some may already know of my illustrious heritage. I come from a family of self-proclaimed rednecks. (Well, the men are rednecks. The women mostly just put up with the men.) Continue reading ‘Our Southern Vacation… Part One [update: part two was never written]‘
UplinkEarth managed to make an enemy out of me today. I don’t use them for my personal blog or any new sites. Frankly, I’m not using Coldfusion much anymore and I don’t particularly care for Windows servers. I rely on Dreamhost and Media Temple for my hosting needs these days. (Yeah, I know that Dreamhost decided to charge me for 2009 a year in advance a couple of months ago, but they fixed the issue and my site was never down—just my available balance on my credit card.) Continue reading ‘UplinkEarth is possibly the worst host ever… that’s saying a lot’
My resumé is very much out of date. For those of you wondering, I now work for The New Group. (Don’t hold our website against me—I would use a lot less Flash. It is getting updated soon.)
It has been a crazy first month at a company that is in the midst of some interesting changes and rapid growth. I’m really looking forward to the ride, though I can’t say I felt that way two weeks ago.
For those of you in the midst of change, give it a few weeks. It is amazing what you will learn if you allow yourself to go through at least one month worth of change with a group of people. I am really impressed with the team I am going to be working with. I can’t wait to see what we create.
I just completed a nearly painless upgrade to WordPress 2.5. I say “nearly painless” only because I managed to trigger a page error when attempting to upgrade a couple of plugins. (Apparently you have to deactivate a plugin before you upgrade it, which is a reasonable requirement, but it doesn’t say “deactivate first” anywhere.)
Technically, the actual 2.5 upgrade went off without a hitch thanks to WordPress Automatic Upgrade. Everything in my template just worked, which I couldn’t say after the 2.3 upgrade earlier this year.
So what is my favorite new feature? Well, so far it has to be the automatic plugin upgrade, but I am looking forward to using some fo the media features and the media browser is a clear improvement.
Treehugger is touting Permablitz: Near Instant Permaculture for the ‘Burbs. I don’t live in the ‘burbs, but I do live in a high density Portland neighborhood.
My goal by the end of this summer is to have a highly productive front lawn. The first step in that plan is the walkway seen in this photo.
Next is a rock retaining wall so that I can level things out and start planting.
While speaking with Jon Maroney at the last Mobile Portland event, he mentioned that he was hoping to get a rickshaw or similar pedal-powered vehicle for picking up clients from the airport. Jon, I think I’ve found your transport. The highly convertable Cycles Maximus Trike seems like the perfect fit for bike-friendly Portland.
Now who’s going to import it? Clever Cylces? This seems right up their alley.
According to some wacky scientists out there, there is a possibility that turning on a really powerful nuclear device could have unexpected consequences. Pbbwfff!
[via TreeHugger]
In the course of handing off a project to another company, I just had the opportunity to say “just build them Boxes and Arrows on Drupal and they’ll be thrilled.” While I was merely using hyperbole to make a point, it got be thinking. What do they use to deliver their content?
The answer is PublicSquare. This is a subscription-based service for creating an online magazine with a community component. I’ve always like the layout and general functionality of Boxes and Arrows and now I know what they use to serve up their content.
I plan to look into this a bit more as the idea of a subscription-based magazine CMS intruiges me. I would have signed up for an account today, but it turns out that they have an expired security certificate on their account sign up page. I wonder if they know that? (It expired on December 6, 2007.)