Back in 1995 when I was first really learning how to build web sites, I was approached by Art Bolli, the late and former director of the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District to create a site that would somehow represent the organization. So, I did. It was really basic, but Art, as so often happens, had hopes of expanding the site, even providing dynamic data on water levels. However, as so often happens, no...
Last week I discovered a nice little WordPress plug-in that promised to automate the upgrade process for the program. Upgrading WordPress is relatively simple, still there are a number of steps that you are supposed to follow to do it properly. So, I often put off upgrades out of pure laziness. Upgrades happen quite often, mostly plugging security holes, so they’re pretty important. I was currently due for an upgrade, so I downloaded and...
Time-Standard Managing Editor Rich Somerville has announced that reporter and columnist James Faulk has been assigned to the new position of Web Editor. Rich’s column is pretty short on specifics leading some local blogsters and blog commenters to speculate what the heck may be in store for the site. Everybody hates the pop-ups (me included but I use a great Firefox plug-in so I don’t see them) and the design is a bit chaotic....
Living in Humboldt County has some advantages that certainly off set the drawbacks. One of them is the relative lack of traffic. I’ve lived in the Bay Area and in the Washington D.C. area. I don’t regret leaving either behind. One of the reasons is the time I need to spend in a car getting somewhere on a daily basis. If I have to spend more than 15 minutes in my car I must...
I admit it. I’m a list addict. I love lists of things people have compiled. I’m sure I’m not alone. There are tons of lists of things on the web. Bloggers love to make lists and they draw lots of traffic. Lists are a quick way of learning a bunch of things quickly about a subject or getting links to resources you hadn’t known about before. As a collector of lists, I thought why...
