Author: Jesse

We Have Cold Air Again 3

We Have Cold Air Again

After several months of wishing it was working, we finally had an electrician pay us a visit today to address our derelict swamp cooler. After about 45 minutes, he had it all wrapped up and good to go. The issue?...

WordPress Comment Problems 3

WordPress Comment Problems

It looks like we're having some problems with some comments not showing up properly in WordPress. One of them was edited to fix some bad HTML, but the others that aren't appearing seem to have no rhyme or reason to...

Restaurant Roundup: El Paso, TX 0

Restaurant Roundup: El Paso, TX

Work-related travel had me spending the latter half of the week in the Lone Star State, a river away from both a foreign country and another state. El Paso looks a lot like pretty much any other town in any...

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant? 0

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant?

Web folks are fascinated with statistics. We love to see how many visits our blogs get, how they get there, who's linking to us and what browser everyone is using. In our quest for meaningful data concerning who's reading and...

Restyling The Template 2

Restyling The Template

One of the best parts of WordPress is the ability to customize to your heart's content. You can either go as basic as downloading and installing a new theme or plugin or as extensive as re-writing individual components. Today I...

Restaurant Roundup: Ottumwa, IA 4

Restaurant Roundup: Ottumwa, IA

"Ottum-where?" That was my reaction when I was first asked to go to Iowa for work. Everything I had heard about the state lead me to believe that it would be endless fields of cows and corn with no signs...

Adventures in Zion: Chasing Cows 3

Adventures in Zion: Chasing Cows

Shauna and I spent the weekend with my mom at Zion National Park for Mother's Day. The park more-or-less centers around the small town of Springdale just outside of the park's entrance. It's a very rural town split between touristy...