Unless plans changed when I wasn’t looking, the Bend/Central Oregon bloggers are getting together again tomorrow, Tuesday the 8th. It’s at the Cascade Lakes Brewery Lodge (upstairs!) on Bend’s westside, starting at 7pm. I don’t know yet if I’ll make it, but I know a bunch of the others will. Cheers!
Month: February 2005
php|tropics
A bit over a year ago I blogged about the PHP Cruise. Well, this year there’s another PHP conference organized by the folks at php|architect, though it’s not a cruise this time: php|tropics! It’s in Cancun, Mexico, from May 11 through 15. Now, if I only had a few grand lying around and could convince… Continue reading php|tropics
Central Oregon’s biggest baby?
According to this article in the Bulletin, a woman in Prineville gave birth to a 14 pound, 1 ounce baby. Holy c-section, Batman! Still, as big as that is, it doesn’t quite beat the 16.7 pound baby born last month. And then for some bogglers check out these Guinness World Record entries for heaviest births.
Much Ado About nofollow
Watching the various debate about Google’s nofollow initiative has been enlightening. Ostensibly, it was supposed to be a way to fight comment spam on weblogs, but predictably it took no time at all for people to figure out how to game the system. Also predictably, anti-nofollow support launched equally quickly. I won’t use it. At… Continue reading Much Ado About nofollow
Super Wal-Mart
So there’s supposed to be a new Wal-Mart Supercenter coming to Bend. The Bend.com story is here. It’ll be located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Highway 97 and Cooley Road, and is supposed to be a gargantuan 200,000 square feet in size. I can’t say I’m thrilled. Why? Bend and Central Oregon… Continue reading Super Wal-Mart
Trackback spam
Woke up this morning to find 116 notices of trackback spam littering my inbox. Out of the blue, and I notice that a whole bunch of other weblogs got hit today, too. It appears some spammer finally wrote a script to exploit trackback. Ah, well. It was easy enough to fix; do a quick mod… Continue reading Trackback spam
Free beef!
Well, it’s that time of year again: In one of the strangest (yet surprisingly most effective) promotions ever to grace marketing, it’s Free Beef Month at Les Schwab!