Here’s my Father’s Day present from Tru! He got me this sweet t-shirt because I coveted it in a catalog earlier in the year. So sweet of a 2-year old to notice such things… 🙂
Author: Brendon
Tabbrowser extensions
If you use FireFox (and you probably should), you will want the Tabbrowser extensions. I updated my browser to version 0.9 and lost my extensions in the process. Most of them I could live without, but the tabbrowser extensions is a must have. It gives you better control over the tab behavior.
An oldie but goodie
Just ran across an old picture of Tru. Figured everyone might dig it…again.
DMOZ
Hey, I just got notified that my application to be an editor in the dmoz.org project has been accepted. I’ve sent in four or five applications over the past four years or so. The first few applications were rejected outright–I think they were for the human resources or organizational development categories. Last month I applied for the financial aid category and was told that the category was too broad for a newbie editor and that I should consider something a little more narrowly focused. Hey, nothing’s more narrowly focused than Newberg, right? 🙂 So I applied to be the editor of the “Regional: North America: United States: Oregon: Localities: N: Newberg: Business and Economy” category. And now I am. See for yourself at the bottom of this page.
Next on my ToDo list is world domination.
Salt and Light
So, I’m reading Tricia’s new book and generally enjoying it. It’s leading me in all sorts of interesting directions–some new, some familiar. Stringfellow (and here) is one of the new directions. Eberhard Arnold is one of the familiar ones. Arnold’s book Salt and Light is just fantastic. You can get a free version as a pdf here.
Proven in the Northwest
Man, I wish I could make it to this…
7 p.m. Friday, June 4, Hollywood Theater
Hammersurf, a Northwest surfboard company, put out a call for original footage featuring surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Ten films were selected to screen at “Proven in the Northwest,” a benefit for Skaters for Portland Skateparks. Look for “O.T.” which chronicles a group of over-30 skate rats from Portland. The friends began skating plywood halfpipes in the 1980s, and the film captures their trajectories from skate punks to responsible fathers and husbands who still skate.Hollywood Theater
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
503-803-4668
$5-$7PS- Don’t forget the after-party.
Drop me on
Tru’s figuring out how to navigate the mess that is the English language. The other day he told me that mama could drop him off at daycare and I could drop him on. Makes perfect sense, eh? I remember when my nephew, Benjamin, used to refer to yesterday as “lasterday.” This is a super fun stage–I’ll try to regularly record the funny things Tru comes up with.
A few new pics
Slapped up a few new pics of Tru this evening. His “aunt Amy” came to see him over the long weekend and they had some fun together–the pics are kinda lame, so you’ll have to take my word for it. Tru, unfortunately, got some fever-thing going during the weekend. He went as high as 104°. He was mostly lethargic, punctuated by his usual rowdy self whenever the Motrin broke through. I don’t think the fever had anything to do with aunt Amy, but who knows. I heard she made boys feverish back in the day–maybe she’s still got the mojo. 😀
There are also a couple of pictures of our new purple door. We’re too cheap to buy real paint for the front door, so we used leftover floor paint from the upstairs. Yeah, that’s right. We’ve got a purple floor upstairs.
Link Harvest problems
I found an RSS parser that would display the Link Harvest over there on the right side of this page. It works well as long as posts don’t contain html, quotes or apostraphes. Guess I *really* need to figure out how to make Magpie work. I kinda, sorta got it working a few days ago, but by now I’ve forgotten everything I learned. Sigh.
More stuff done
I finished fixing up the Link Harvest page and rss feed. I don’t know why I spent so much time on it, since nobody will ever visit the page or read the rss. It was a good learning experience, I guess. The page layout and colors are utilitarian and uninspiring, but they do the trick. The search function works better than MT ever did and I was pleased to be able to work out at dropdown solution for the archives–that’ll be showing up on this page once I’m able to import all the previous entries.
Next step is to get the Link Harvest feed displaying on this page. I guess there are some tricks to make a single WP blog do double duty as both a regular blog and a link blog. Something to do with categories and how/where they display. Whatever…it’s too confusing for me, so I just set up a fresh blog for the Link Harvest and I’ll display the feed over here.