Site Development Trying to get a mail form thang working. Textarea validation is a real pain in the rear. Anyway, I have a prototype that seems to work reasonably well. Internet Explorer gives a javascript error that I’m unable to fix, but it doesn’t appear to affect functionality so we’ll live with it for the [...]

Way too much going on, so it’s bullet points today. Is it too late to move this year’s Super Bowl to, say, Nairobi? One local liquor store owner I talked to said he would lock up his store and get out of town if the Raiders ended up coming here. This isn’t going to be [...]

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. I was a bit under the weather for most of the long weekend, but that gave me a good excuse to sit around the house with my wife and dogs, watch football games, and plug stats into a spreadsheet. I feel much better now. Think I’ll go for [...]

Good gig Friday night. The guy who usually handles our sound was out of town this weekend, so it was a rough start, but once we got going, things came together for us. Thankfully we had a very enthusiastic crowd and they helped pick us up. I can’t begin to stress how much of a [...]

This is interesting: Cuban pitcher Contreras defects (Baseball America). Any chance he won’t end up a Yankee? I remember watching that game he pitched against the Orioles. Granted, it was only an exhibition, and the O’s weren’t playing all their best players, but the guy looked real good. So the playoffs began yesterday. The one [...]

One of the things I did up in Ashland was visit some cool bookstores. At one of the stores I picked up a couple of books: The B.B. King Companion by Richard Kostelanetz, and Made in America by Bill Bryson. I bought the former because I’m a blues fan and because I once ran a [...]