On Tuesday, Aug 11, I had a double red cell donation appointment at 1pm at the Northfield Ballroom. When I arrived, donors were told that some supplies had not yet arrived from St. Paul and that it would be a 45 minute delay. I had other things scheduled so I departed, irritated because they have my phone number and could have alerted me. But I’m more irritated now that no one has contacted me in the month since it happened.(continued)
Category: <span>Life</span>
I went to take photos of two of my sons, Tyson and Graham, doing a tandem skydive yesterday near Baldwin, Wisconsin. When I got there, they surprised me with an…
The other graphic on the First National Bank Northfield’s window is the Soldier’s March for Peace, part of the War Kids Relief project. I phoned Gunnar Swanson this morning and…
Many Northfield area blog sites run on WordPress. If your site is one of them, be sure to upgrade to Version 2.8.4 ASAP because there’s a nasty worm making the rounds this weekend:
- WordPress blog: How to Keep WordPress Secure
- Lorelle: Old WordPress Versions Under Attack
- Mashable Social Media Guide: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade
I wrote to my favorite web host, Tiger Technologies in California, asking them if they knew about it the worm and whether they could tell if any sites had been compromised. The owner, Robert Mathews, wrote me back within a few minutes:
The musical comedy/melodrama Jesse opened last night at the Northfield Arts Guild Theater. A number of those involved with previous shows (1976, 1977, 1986, 1994, 2001) were on hand for…
I spotted this pink 1956 Ford Thunderbird (Minnesota collector license plate ‘56 Bird”) while driving through Golden Valley yesterday afternoon. I managed to get the photo on the…
Our radio show/podcast guest on Monday: Mary Ho, Rice County Director of Pubic Health, talking with us about local preparations for the H1N1 flu season. Ross and I did the proper virus-preventive fist bump upon her departure though now I see that we may have to graduate to elbow bumps.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
Northfield area organizations are increasingly seeing the advantages of setting up blog sites (a website with regular pages but built with a blog platform) for special events (eg, ArtSwirl, JuneBug).…
I walked out of the Goodbye Blue Monday on Saturday morning to see a 1971 Triumph TR6 parked outside. I bought one new after I got my first job after…