I was browsing at Barnes and Nobles this evening and found a book that looks very interesting (so I bought it): Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West. It’s the autobiographical account of a doctor during the formative years of Bend. Urling Coe came to the new town of Bend, Oregon, in… Continue reading Frontier Doctor
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Bend.com Needs RSS
Okay, Bend.com seriously needs an RSS feed. I’m seriously considering writing a script to scrape their archive page for headlines and producing one myself.
Conspiracies in Web Tracking
Despite my headline, I’m not really going to go all Mulder on you and start ranting about Big Brother and privacy issues and all that. Instead it’s just some thoughts I’ve been entertaining lately on technology and tracking people and habits on the Web. Some people may choose to see the things I’m writing about… Continue reading Conspiracies in Web Tracking
South Sister Quakes
Sweeping the local news this evening is the South Sister earthquakes: more than 100 shook the area three miles west of the South Sister today, with a magnitude of up to 1.5 on the Richter scale. Bend.com has the best writeup on the story I’ve seen online. The quakes were occurring in the northeast part… Continue reading South Sister Quakes
Oregon Weblogs
Just wanted to give a few plugs and props to one of the better weblog-related sites out there, Oregon Blogs. I thought about trying to describe what it does, but the best I could come up with is that it’s equal parts RSS aggregator, group blog, and weblog directory rolled into one; really, the way… Continue reading Oregon Weblogs
Button Trendsetter
After I last posted about the buttons (see “Button Sites” from March 14) on Web sites, and the button maker, I’ve noticed that others are taking notice, and it’s popping up elsewhere: Wil Wheaton: stay all day if you want to (March 23) Jeremy Zawodny: Politically Incorrect Blog Buttons (March 22) Boing Boing: Fun Web… Continue reading Button Trendsetter
WTF is up with Amazon?
Just WTF is up with Amazon.com this evening? I’m trying to place an order and I keep getting a “We’re Sorry!” message every other page load: An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we’re working to resolve the problem as soon as possible. If you were trying to make a… Continue reading WTF is up with Amazon?
American Gods
Didn’t post anything yesterday because I was wrapped up finishing American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Amazing, fascinating book. Absolutely worth it.
And another Bend blogger
Add to that ever-so-slightly growing list of Bend (Oregon) webloggers: Brainside Out. Excellent.
Search Patch
While waiting to find out if my hosting provider will change the minimum fulltext word length for MySQL, here’s what I’ve done in the meantime to deal with viable three-character search terms. First, I split the search string into the component words (an array). I subtract any stopwords (I’ve got a big list) and for… Continue reading Search Patch