Warning: technical entry. Feel free to skip if you’re so inclined. Today I’m talking about RSS. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s essentially a format for delivering data and content in an XML (read: structured) format. What kind of content? Well, any kind, really. Right now, the types of content you’ll most likely… Continue reading About RSS
Author: Jon
From the Trenches
My day at work was certainly a tech support nightmare. Get this: as soon as I walk in, I’m told the server is down. Thinking (hoping) they meant the connection to the internet is down, I clarified the issue. Nope. The server. Damn. This is the main file/print server that everyone in the office uses… Continue reading From the Trenches
California
I suppose most everyone has heard by now, but Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he’ll run for governor of California. What a great day for American politics. Hey, I’m serious; I drank a beer in honor of Jesse Ventura’s election to governor of Minnesota. Colorful personalities like this certainly revive interest in politics, whatever people… Continue reading California
Blog Entry Correction
A quick note to correct a misconception I propagated in my entry on blogs the other day. I said that a blogroll was a “Fancy name for a list of links to other blog sites” and I was only partially right. While a blogroll is a list of links to other blog sites, it is… Continue reading Blog Entry Correction
The Beach Boys
It pays to know the right people, I’m realizing. Today we (my wife and I) got invited to The Beach Boys concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater on August 17. But not just to the general admission—that would be too easy. No, we got invited to join some friends in one of the private VIP… Continue reading The Beach Boys
August Already?
Where did July go? For that matter, where did the first half of the year go? I’m not sure I like this concept of time passing more quickly the older you get, which is what my grandmother always said and that I take to be a general truism. When you’re a child, time seems to… Continue reading August Already?
Bend Venue
Having grown up and spent a significant part of my life here in Bend, I still tend to thing of it as a small town, even though it’s growing by leaps and bounds. A such, I’m always amused at people’s reactions (my own included) when big-name music comes to town—it’s hard to imagine why bands… Continue reading Bend Venue
RSS Feed
I’ve enabled an RSS 2.0 feed, which you can view here. Consider it experimental or even beta if something gets wonky.
Friendster
I signed up for a new online tool/technology today called Friendster. Maybe you’ve heard of it; it’s “an online community that connects people through networks of friends” for meeting new people. So far I haven’t really figured out what it’s supposed to do for me, because the site is still very much in beta: most… Continue reading Friendster
On Blogs
This is a bit about the blog software I wrote for this site. If you’re into the technical aspects of blogs, or PHP and MySQL, you’ll be interested in this. If not, you can safely skip it and not really miss out on anything. I’ve taken to calling my home-grown blog software blognutt (“blog +… Continue reading On Blogs