When it comes to dining in Bend, Oregon, few places compare to The Pine Tavern. Located in Downtown Bend, just off Mirror Pond and the Deschutes River, the Pine Tavern Restaurant is one of the signature establishments of this town and one of the best places to eat, period. Good food, good drinks and good… Continue reading The Pine Tavern
Month: February 2004
Language
About a week back Andrei Zmievski blogged about taking linguistics classes and on the fluid nature of languages, and got me thinking about them. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in French with the equivalent of a minor in Russian (and yet I work in the computer industry… funny, eh?), but I’m far from… Continue reading Language
More Testing
Doing some further testing on the new CMS. There should be a “MORE” link below if you’re viewing this from the front page. If you click on it, you’ll get the extended body text and as a treat I’ll throw in some of the things I’m doing behind the scenes.
Spam Pounder
So the spam problem finally got to be a little overwhelming on our BendCable email account, and we opted in to use BendCable’s anti-spam software/service, Spam Pounder. But here’s the catch: you don’t actually get this anti-spam service on your regular bendcable.com email, no—instead they change your email to a bendbroadband.com address because that’s where… Continue reading Spam Pounder
Flipping Switches
I’m flipping switches on my blog tonight, and going live with my new CMS I’m working on. Hopefully, all will work as planned; consider this entry a test message.
Back with links
Okay, yes, so I didn’t write anything here last night, the first time since the beginning of the year that I missed a night. I actually felt a little guilty about that. Keeps me honest, I guess. Anyway, I’m back tonight with some links. The first is Topix.net, courtesy of ongoing. On the front page,… Continue reading Back with links
CMS Ranting
Gadgetopia has a good rant on content management that I’m just getting around to posting about. (CMS’s Should Manage Content, Not Display It) My solution was to write a function library to make raw database calls to get everything out in a nice, big, nested PHP array. I essentially built an API for the CMS… Continue reading CMS Ranting
Cheese
I was looking at a cookbook over at my parents’ house this evening and came across a general primer on making cheese. I was under the impression that making cheese was a rather complicated procedure, but it turns out it’s not, really; only time-consuming. Basically you separate milk into whey and curds, and then drain… Continue reading Cheese
Timely Wired Issue
After all the hubbub over Google the last few days, I thought it was pretty interesting when my issue of Wired came today, with “Googlemania!” on the cover. Timely.
Writing tips
Here’s a good link for anyone who’s trying to be a writer: Learn Writing with Uncle Jim. It’s a series of posts on a message board on the topic of writing commercial novels, from a professional writer. It’s also an insane 27 pages long, with 21 (is that right? I counted twice…) posts per page.… Continue reading Writing tips