RasterWeb!We watched The Producers a few weeks ago, and it was hilarious. Not so hilarious is this real-life story: Wisconsin Farmer’s Hitler Shrine Will Not Open, Officials Say.
Yes, that’s right. A Madison area farmer (named “Junker”) was planning on opening a shrine to Hitler on his farm. It has all the makings of a comedy, except for the fact that it’s true…
I know it’s still a few days until my birthday (June 18th!) but Dana gave me my present already, a Trek 7200!
My old bike is one I assembled from a dumpster in Madison about 14 years ago, so this is an amazing upgrade. I’ll miss riding “ol’ dumpy…” I mean, no I won’t, this bike is awesome!
We’ve been trying to ride every day or so, and besides needing the exercise, it’s nice to get out and have some fun. Thanks Dana, I love you and the bike.
As previously mentioned, I gave a presentation on Microformats to the Milwaukee Web Design Meetup Group. I think it went well… I talked for about 30-40 minutes while running through some slides and examples, and showed Pingerati and Technorati’s new Microformats Search, as well as the Firefox Tails Extension.
The slides for the presentation are online now, aptly titled Microformats.
This was my first time using S5, and it wasn’t perfect, but part of that may be due to my use of a borrowed Windows laptop. S5 is very cool though, and I’m sure it’ll only get better.
It was nice to discuss Microformats with folks who had never heard of them before. They came up with some neat ideas about how they could be used in the future. I’m hoping at least a few people were motivated enough to create their own hCard.
Oh, I should send thanks to Tantek Çelik and Ryan King. I borrowed most of the slides from them. ;)
(Argh! I completely forgot that I had PDFs to hand out.)
The May 2006 Web Design Meetup was fun, but a few folks mentioned that having a bit more focus might be nice, so I’ve volunteered to talk about Microformats at the meeting on June 8th, 2006.
If you’re not familiar with Microformats, I’ll try to cover the basics. Here’s a simple definition from microformats.org:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Basically, Microformats allow you to markup pages so people and computers can easily get information from them. Come with questions and I’ll try to supply answers.
Last summer I wanted to start a worm farm, thinking it would be a fun project for the kids, and a way to have worms available for fishing, but we never actually got around to building the farm. Well this year, we have…
We are now worm farmers.
I had a few pages I bookmarked on how to build a worm farm, though most of them focused on the composting/recycling aspect rather than “worms for fishing” which is the kind my Dad and I built when I was a kid. Anyway, I sort of did things my own way, based on what I read, and the farm is now operational.
I took my old van box, cut it into two pieces that were stackable, drilled holes, added a screen, wet newspaper, egg shells, asparagus, dirt, and worms… and it’s now in the basement. We added about two dozen redworms and probably 20 to 30 “regular” worms from the garden out back. As this is our first attempt, it’s pretty experimental, so all we can do is hope for the best. Expect an update soon…