What’s the Mission?
Thanks for visiting! If you came here from my guest post on Utility Cycling, you might be interested in my Family Cycling page, with links to several of my cycling-related posts. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed to read posts through your favorite RSS reader, and you can follow me on Twitter as [...]
Who says you can’t do stuff when you have kids? Right now, I’m at Portland Beer and Blog. In a pub, having a beer. With kids! Ha! I guess that about says it. But seriously, many people in the Portland tech/blogging community have kids. Sometimes we do have to make difficult choices about what we [...]
Today we have a guest! It’s J.A. Konrath (Joe), author of soon-to-be-released horror novel Afraid and of the Lt. Jack Daniels mystery series (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, etc.). Joe is on a blog book tour to promote Afraid, which I’m looking forward to reading. Here’s a blurb from Joe’s newsletter: Welcome to Safe Haven, Wisconsin. [...]
I’ve decided to start an occasional series here called “Bits of Tech.” It’ll cover the plugins, widgets, and other techy things that I use on this blog. My first bit of tech to share with you is Meal Outlaw. If you look down the left sidebar, you’ll find my Meal Outlaw feed — a listing [...]
I’ve got one of those colds that seems to hang on forever (well, five days so far). I noted a few days ago that I sometimes use garlic tea as home remedy. My sister Wendy also suggested hot lemonade and chiles. A combination of all three sounds awful at first, but Wendy pointed out that [...]
Portland blogger Jack Bogdanski is holding his sixth annual Buck-a-Hit day today, December 17, 2008. This means that a generous benefactor will be donating $1 to the Oregon Food Bank for every unique visit to Jack’s site, up to 5,000 unique visits! There will also be opportunities for visitors to make their own donations to [...]
Arundhati Roy has a piece today on guardian.co.uk about responding to the Mumbai terror attacks, including some history and context for the attacks. It’s long, but I do recommend reading it. Her piece ends with this paragraph: The only way to contain (it would be naïve to say end) terrorism is to look at the [...]
It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S., a day of peace and celebration. This year, the peace has been marred. I’m still appalled by the terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai, India yesterday. As I write this, the death toll is at 100, with hundreds more injured and some people possibly still in a hostage situation [...]
