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Food Critic

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:30:00 -0600

I moved from the Seattle area to Utah County about four years ago. One of the hardest parts of that move was the extreme lack of good food in Utah. I grew up in Utah and always figured we had good food here, but just in the expensive restaurants. I was wrong. There is no substitute for seafood only a few hours old, and it will never be possible to have that kind of freshness in Utah. One coping method I’ve found is to go on vacations, with the goal of eating great food being high on the list of reasons for choosing a location.

Comment Spam

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:30:00 -0600

It’s funny. I had pretty much abandoned this blog a long time ago, but here I am contemplating actually blogging (my last false-start probably shouldn’t count). Why? Because the WordPress php script notified me of some comment spam that was recently added to an old post. That was sort of amazing to me, since I have never advertised my site anywhere. There has never been a link to it from my homepage (there isn’t even a homepage right now). In fact, I don’t think there has ever been a link to my blog from anywhere in the world. But somehow the spiders and spammers found it and started adding comment spam. That’s pretty interesting to me. Why not until now?

and so it begins

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:30:00 -0600

how do you start a blog? this is the question that’s been on my mind ever since i installed wordpress and created my about page. actually, i wrote a first entry at that time, but i was messing around deleting users and found out that deleting a user also deletes all the posts of that user (too bad they didn’t warn me of that when i clicked on delete). but it wasn’t anything worth worrying about losing.