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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Newsweek try’s to find out why “bikers are jerks”.

Portland got a write up for being bike-centric, this time in Newsweek. While the article tries to attempt to maintain some level playing field, I see this as a case where this should have been an editorial, it would have answered some questions and would have made the title less bitter. As for the real [...]

upgrades, and hopefully no one noticed

So due to a hickup earler this week when I attempted to update to 2.6 and brought down the site, I’ve done this one by hand. And *tada* everything has been updated, old cruft cleaned and were now running on current. !~whew~.

Programing, where to start.

Some of you know, some of you don’t but I’ve had a book idea brewing in my head for a few years. It’s a weird feeling to have, and it’s not because I really want to write a book, but rather this book does not seem to exist. Thus the idea torments me when I [...]

WordPress 2.6, the birth of WP-CMS

So I’ve been dabbling in and with WordPress for a few months now as a easy to install and easy to hack CMS for work. From the way that I look at it a CMS should, at it’s very basic, should manage content, manage users, allow an event driven interaction between users and content (work [...]

Adventures in Idiot Customer service land and Moron UI land.

One of the many options that some one can check your free credit score is MyFICO, they have an ~ok~ product. It was nice to see what my score was but everything is an attempt to up-sell you and it got very annoying. To comply with the law you get one month free as a [...]

ScribeFire… an attempt to see if it’s even worth trying to get paied for this?

So I’ve been a happy ScribeFire user for a while and there recent venture is in to ads, so I figured that I would give it a whirl and see what happens. Hay if I can make $0.25 a month I’ll think that I’m rich, or something like that. Any who I figured that, since [...]

Things do not happen overnight!

So I’m reading this article about how the long tail theroy is bunk because some one drew some charts that show otherwise. I have not read the article with the charts and I have not read The Long Tail, but I think that the theroy has been explained very well, “If given a choice people [...]