How’s this for disturbing? I was just at the Evergreen Village (Bellevue) Safeway this morning, doing my little shopping thing. I was late — I usually do it on the weekend. While wandering around getting my goods, I noticed that the shelves in the produce aisle were looking a bit empty. I didn’t think much… Continue reading Ewwww
Author: Jon
San Diego or bust
We’ll be on the road all next week—well, starting this week, really, since we’re leaving Friday night—on our way to visit my brother in San Diego. Road trip! From Bend, San Diego is about a 16 or 17 hour drive. Since the kids are little, we’re spreading that over three days each way, taking it… Continue reading San Diego or bust
More on trackbacks
Some more on trackbacks. To my mind, they are simply another form of comment, so that’s exactly how I’m treating them. You won’t see a special “Trackback” down there next to the “Comments” link. Instead, they’ll just be integrated with the comments in chronological order. I think I saw Sam Ruby doing this first, and… Continue reading More on trackbacks
Trackback is on
I’ve finally bitten the bullet and implemented Trackback here—well, half of it, anyway. My site should now be able to handle Trackback pings from other sites. I even implemented the RDF autodiscovery crap, but added a bonus: a new meta tag like so: <meta name=”trackback.ping” content=”Trackback URL for a particular entry”> So maybe I can… Continue reading Trackback is on
On writing
For a long time I’ve wanted to be a writer, and ultimately make a living writing. My biggest problem with that, however, is actually making myself write. I’m great at thinking about writing, though, and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. Herewith some of my thoughts, in no particular format, just rambling (i.e.,… Continue reading On writing
Blog money
So I observe over on Ensight that Jeremy has basically sold his blog for something in the neighborhood of $15,000 (Canadian or USD?), and still got a sweetheart deal: I am effectively considering bidding closed. I have a deal on the table. It’s substantial, is from a longtime Ensight reader, allows me to keep editorial… Continue reading Blog money
Bend Bulletin RSS feed
Quick public service announcement: I’ve hacked together an RSS feed for the Bend Bulletin. It’s a first-pass, I’m scraping their Local, Business and Sports pages and building a summary feed only. If I have time, I may go one step further and pull each article on those pages, and provide a full-text feed. Either way,… Continue reading Bend Bulletin RSS feed
Life lessons…
I don’t remember where I originally read this, but it was awhile ago, from a list of “life lessons” that someone had compiled. The only one that stuck out in my head is insanely funny to me: Never lick a steak knife.
Cooking for engineers
I discovered this site via Slashdot the other day, and given my current fixation on cooking geekery via Alton Brown, I find it pretty cool: Cooking For Engineers. I especially like the nifty recipe tables… very creative use of HTML tables. In other odd-yet-apropos geek cooking news, Meg Hourihan, the co-founder of Blogger, is giving… Continue reading Cooking for engineers
Roaches use Bloglines in the fall
Yikes, it would appear that I’ve taken a blogging hiatus. Not so. I guess time just sort of slipped away from me, and keeps slipping; I’ve got things to write about, I just always seem to be doing something else. So consider this the recap post for the past few days. I’ve been playing with… Continue reading Roaches use Bloglines in the fall