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When you Google The Claptrap, guess who comes up #1. I guess dreams really do come true. …

So I’ve decided to go down to San Francisco on the 21st and 22nd to Attend WordCamp, which is a gathering/conference of WordPress bloggers and programmers. It’ll be a totally nerdly time, which is pretty much what I’m in the mood for. After tabbing too quickly through the registration form and thwarting the auto-form-complete thing […]

Huber’s was established in 1879 at the corner of First and Morrison as the Bureau Saloon. Its first proprietor was W.L. Lightner. In 1884 Frank R. Huber was hired as bartender. Mr. Huber had tended bar in Portland for many years. In 1887 Frank Hube…

… It’s not what you know, but who you know! And my networking skills have apparently been pretty lacking. It’s kind of a bummer when you are quite capable to do something, but have resisted the popularity game to your…

Couldn’t make it to the whole meeting, but I did stop into the Gabriel Park Skate Park Community Open House. There was a good-sized group, primarily made up of skaters, who were contributing suggestions and feedback on the design features when I arrived. It seemed a little chaotic, mainly since the group of folks (older […]

To celebrate the Lewis and Clark centennial Portland businessmen and politicians grappled political power away from the saloon and brothel owners of the North side and began a city wide clean-up of ‘illicit activities’ such as gambling and prostitution…

I’m not sure if you all have heard, but if you haven’t heard and didn’t catch that episode of 30-rock, let me be of some service to tell you that pagers have been out for a while! Someone forgot to…

A couple years I was in college studying management and organization development. Three years later I feel like I am relearning a number of the things that I learned before, only this time with much more real-life situations and consequences….

Whoa! Tarver is really getting the hang of this thing! Okay… that wasn’t Tarver. But this is: Buy a Shirt!…

Come out to the Multnomah Center tonight from 7:00 - 8:30PM to review and comment on the design for the upcoming skatepark at Gabriel Park. This is the first of two of these open houses, the second will be next month on Tuesday July 31st, also 7:00-8:30 PM. Not sure what room these are in, […]