Ken's Sandbox

I have settled on a new theme, Atahualpa. I can’t pronounce it or remember how to spell it, but so far it is proving very flexible, easy to work with and has a great support forum.

So, a little about what I am planning to do with it (and wordpress).

I see a need for sites that [...]

I’m in the process of doing a little face lift on the blog. I’m looking at doing some plugin development so I just upgraded to the latest Wordpress. Next, need to find a theme I like. I will try to keep it at least functional during the process but it may be different every time [...]

I had occasion to drive to Portland and back on Monday and Tuesday. Our destination was in the northwest industrial district. My overall impression of the trip was “where is this economic crisis we keep hearing about?”. I read that Oregon’s unemployment rate just hit 10% but you would never know it by the number [...]

I have been giving a lot of thought to the idea of microblogging as a replacement for the email conversations I find myself having all the times. Things like setting up a tee time for golf between two or three friends. This currently happens in close-to-real-time email with everyone ccd all of the messages.

My microblogging [...]

I just left the Home Depot site where I was trying to locate a strip light for behind a valance in our living room. Working from home I am on a not-so-broad broadband satellite connection and every page load is painfull. Especially considering the site would probably take 30 seconds to load on my 7mb [...]

In a typical case of investors living only for the short term, they dumped on Google’s stock after the company reported quarterly earnings were up only 28%. Here is the AP article.  I realize Google is an expensive stock. But this definitely falls under “what the f__k” in my book.

I have been following Marc Andreessen ’s blog recently, and in very good post about blogging, he announced that he would no longer be allowing comments on his blog. Given the prominence of his blog, I can appreciate the time it must take to moderate the comments. But it has caused some interesting discussion on [...]