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By rick2, October 6, 2008 6:24 pm

Our friend and neighbor, Marisha Chamberlain, now has her web site on-line.

Mostly the site introduces her novel, The Rose Variations, which comes out next February. Amazon is already taking preorders.

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By csmadm, September 22, 2008 9:43 pm

We took a bunch of photos of the block party earlier this month. There are photos of neighbors, cooks, kids playing games, Mrs. Darsow in a top hat, and lots of people talking and eating.

If you go looking for these pictures some time in the future, just click on the “Photos” link to the left. That will take you to whatever photos we still have on-line.

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By rick2, September 16, 2008 1:26 pm

I admit I’ve been thinking a lot about what The Economist said about former Mayor Palin’s annual lobbying trips to Washington on the behalf of her vast metropolis of less than 9,000 people.

I was poised to write an ironic letter to the Hastings Star Gazette chiding our own mayor for his lackluster lobbying in comparison, until I ran into him in the grocery store. Continue reading 'What’s wrong with OUR town?'»

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By Biscuit, September 7, 2008 2:42 pm

A few of years ago, the parents of Kelsey’s high school boy friend invited us to stay in their lakefront cabin in Alaska. We drove through Wasilla on the way. That’s where VP candidate Sarah Palin learned public administration as mayor (a part-time position). That place is tiny. It makes Hastings look huge! Continue reading 'Wasilla and VP candidate Palin'»

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By csmadm, September 7, 2008 1:11 am

Our earlier posting on Wasilla, Alaska, includes a map of the wilderness that’s southwest from there, across the Knick Arm from Anchorage. The map comes from an amusing location. Continue reading 'Dud Area'»

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By Rick, August 12, 2008 11:32 pm

I’ve just made OpenID work on this blog. If you want a taste of single sign-on, you can get a free personal ID from Verisign through their PIP program. You can then use it to log in to any OpenID enabled site.

Thanks to Will Norris, author of the WP-Openid plugin.

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By Rick, July 16, 2008 7:42 am

WordPress announced an upgrade of their blog software the other day. WordPress is the software that hosts this site.

The last “big” upgrade was tricky – enough changed so that a few things stopped working.

This one wasn’t too bad. The WordPress site claimed that most things should be compatible with this upgrade, and that seems to be true. Continue reading 'WordPress Upgrade'»

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By Rick, July 10, 2007 8:38 pm

“never attribute to malevolence what you can attribute to incompetence”

This is a diatribe I wrote about the discomfort caused when my home ISP went through a very badly managed domain name change in early 2002. This is ancient history now, but it’s an example of how perceived corporate expertise has a way of evaporating in the face of a real-world problem. Continue reading 'Moving the Maypole Web Site'»