Fabulous website! Check out the Adobe Photoshop Cook video and the Wendell Berry poem on the left, one of my favorites.

The Good Farm Movement: celebrating the agrarian avant-garde: the art activist antagonist, the forward farmer preserver, the urban eater educator.

Almost, but not quite, funny enough to make me subscribe to a Twitter feed.

Unhappy Hipsters

The last 24 hours of this blog proved the importance of two things. One, if you’re going to write your own html code, be sure to close those tags. Two, backing up your files at least every few months or so is a really good idea.

This is part of the reason I decided against being a web programmer. I hate troubleshooting code. Hate it. Also, I didn’t want to dedicate my life to constantly learning the latest greatest techno crap. Also, I started seeing web programmers apply for jobs as administrative assistants. So I figured that I might as well stay a secretary, and it’s worked out fine. I’ll let other people worry about the latest bells and whistles.

I’ll save the rest of my writing for my coffee pot post in the morning. It is time to read an actual book now.

I have two friends who have recently started blogs. One is Anne-Marie Scott, who led Slow Food Piedmont Triad last year before life got in the way. She started the Locavore Makeover Project, in which she is spending a year mentoring two busy families and teaching them how to prepare healthy whole foods. My dentist is in one of the families! It has gotten a lot of attention in the local newspaper, and more recently by Alice Waters, who was in town this week dedicating the Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children’s Museum. Anne-Marie is looking forward to moving to a new home where she plans to begin urban homesteading.

The other belongs to Charlie Headington, my (and many other’s) muse and friend. He is Mr. Slow Food around here, and founded our local chapter along with Steve Tate, who operates Goat Lady Dairy. Charlie can hardly get through a visit to the Greensboro Curb Farmers’ Market because of all his fans and friends stopping him for conversation! He was my inspiration and guide for the Back Forty, my grad school mentor, a teacher of permaculture, a Slow traveler, a wonderful writer, and a practitioner of voluntary simplicity. I’m thrilled that he finally started a blog, a big step for him: Charlie’s Revolutionary Garden. To read how he describes himself, go to this post. Now, give him some blog love and encourage him to keep it up!

That would be since October 2006.

Amazing.

Dr. Justin starts a food blog…I was sorry that I missed his fabled cuisine when he lived here. I was grateful to have someone really adventurous to eat sushi with at lunch! Now he’s in Oxford, Miss and always talking about going to Nawlins. Expect some twisted humor and snark, if he shows his true self.

I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet, but we will have some very famous foodies coming to Greensboro in the next 9-10 months. I’m very excited. Waiting until we were rested and healed and energized was a good move. I think that we should continue to plan Slow Food events in summer, since winter plans always seem to peter out by the time fall rolls around.

A couple of things I can talk about: a Foggy Ridge apple cider/cheese pairing, followed by an apple-based dinner at Sweet Basil’s in November. Cheesemaking workshop in March.

The food at Riva’s was terrific - I had eggplant parmesan and Sandy had spaghetti and meatballs. It’s a beautiful, intimate little space. We’ll be doing some kind of event there too.

I found out what happened to the NDN’s car, sort of. It had something to do with the open grave and the shovel. I didn’t ask for any more details.

Apparently when Sandy set the yard on fire a couple of years ago by tossing woodstove ashes on a leaf pile, that was the open grave and the shovel too.

Whee!

It is raining this morning, a good hard rain earlier. I am glad, but I had hoped to finish our special project today without stirring up the skeeters any more.

A message to local bloggers: I’m not going to ConvergeSouth. I am not against ConvergeSouth. I am not against Microsoft. I do not dislike any of the local bloggers. Well, maybe a few of the more obnoxious and arrogant ones who I simply ignore, and who I won’t name, and who does not include Ed, who I like, and who does not include Sue, who seems to be the favorite blogger to insult since Chewie and Kindley quit, and who does not include Fec, whose obnoxiousness and arrogance I find quite refreshing and funny for some weird reason. But I blog for different reasons than you do. My blog is a creative journal. Most of you Greensboro bloggers don’t care about that. That’s cool, because I’m not into your reasons for blogging either.

I don’t care about stats, although I find it interesting to see how my readers find me. I don’t care if you link to me or not. I’m not a journalist. I’m not a businessperson. I’m not into putting other bloggers down. I don’t care if you don’t like my opinions. I don’t care if you think that I’m boring. I don’t have any interest in making money off my blog. I’m actually more interested in REDUCING my readers to a quality few than increasing them. It’s just a website for my use, like my old website was, but with a convenient capability for journaling and communicating with friends. So y’all have fun, and attend ConvergeSouth, or not, but I’m just fine over here on my own, doing my own thing, and I’m not interested in taking sides in your drama. I’ll check in on a few of you now and then.

End of message to local bloggers.

Now, on with my day!

UPDATE 8/6/08: The problem with Sitemeter seems to be resolved. I added the code back with no problem.

UPDATE: What a detective I am! It seems to have something to do with Sitemeter. I could access my blog through Google reader and Diane read it through Safari. If you can read this and you are having the same problem, take the Sitemeter code off your blog. At least for now - I understand being a Sitemeter junkie.

Or maybe it’s javascript, but taking away the Sitemeter code solved the problem for me.

There’s something weird going on with my blog. Opening it in Internet Explorer causes an error message that IE cannot open the site (but it’s clearly behind it, updated) and makes it immediately close down. But I can open it just fine in Firefox. And I can get to the administrative dashboard in either. I can post through Firefox and IE.

I’m on Sandino’s computer, because he does something to shut my connection down on my laptop when he plays a certain game with someone. So I hope that it has something to do with that. Please let me know if you’re reading it on IE and you didn’t get an error message. Thanks!

Not only did I get a volunteer to lead the cherry picking next Sunday, turns out that she is a very innovative cook and local blogger - take a look-see: Nik Snacks.