May 17 2010
Our garden
Our slimey friend.
Ann shows off her mad hoe skilz. I think she even kissed her guns when she finished.
Sent from my iPhone
Feb 02 2010
Testing Word Press alternatives
So I’ve installed Drupal, Joomla and a couple other open-source CMS/frameworks on poffdaddy.com. Not sure if they’re needed, but it’s always fun playing with new geek toys.
Joomla is my fav so far. It seems pretty easy to handle. Drupal feels a lot more robust, and a lot less user friendly. But I’m picking up on it as I go, so maybe it gets easier. Xoops and Zikula have yet to really make an impression.
And all four are waaaaay behind Word Press as far as I’m concerned. So don’t worry about seeing Poffdaddy on any new platform soon.
Oct 29 2009
Mobile WordPress
Using the WordPress 2.0 iPhone app to post this entry. Can’t go on much longer since typing on my phone is a bit of a hassle.
Feb 23 2009
Mars Edit in the house
I’m writing this post using the illustrious Mars Edit software. We’re testing it out at work as we prepare to implement a blogging API to our content management system. That way folks could use their favorite blog editor (such as this one) to post articles, rather than a somewhat clunky home-grown CMS.
Stay tuned and we’ll see what happens.
Sep 15 2008
Back in town
Just returned from Washington DC, where I attended the annual Online News Association conference. It’s a three-day gig packed with sessions on best practices, hands-on learning, and so forth. This year was just as good as last year’s conference – which was held in Toronto.
One of the highlights for me personally was after day two. There was an official reception and cocktail hour hosted by the Washington Post. Had a couple beers with folks I’d met during the day, then decided around 8 p.m. that I needed to get a bite to eat and hit the sack. During my dinner in the hotel lounge, I check my iPhone and noticed there was a Tweet-up about to happen.
For those of you on the square end, Twitter is a wildly popular instant-message/status updater. The ONA crew had been tweeting quite a bit, so I thought they’d be a lively bunch to meet in person.
So at the designated hour I strolled out into the hotel lobby to find about ten folks – mostly a young crowd – trying to decide where to go. I joined them and convinced them to try a place right around the corner called the Post Pub. I’d been there once already and knew it was a low-key, somewhat divey place for a beer. Plus, they have Yuengling on tap. My kinda place.
So the group headed out trading introductions and business cards along the way. You’ll all be surprised to know I wasn’t the oldest one there. We got to the pub and got a big booth in the back of the house. I’m pretty sure everyone had a great time. I managed to get about half a dozen Twitter followers out of the whole deal, and four or five that I’m now following. Plus, I traded a few e-mails today with some folks from that group inviting them to keep in touch.
See? Geeks aren’t always reclusive losers.
Aug 30 2008
Hey you, out of the gene pool!
Watching the end of the Washington v. Oregon game on Fox Sports Bay Area. Late in the fourth quarter the play-by-play fella (Barry Tompkins) and the dunce color commentator (Petros Papadakis) were talking about a big Oregon quarterback who hails from the state of Georgia.
Tompkins: He said before he came to to play in Eugene, the only thing he knew about Oregon was that it was on top of California.
Papadakis: Yeah, <chuckle> he’s a real geologist.
And yes, I hit rewind on the TiVo to verify he actually said that.