Author Archives: Mark

A 30 something guy, who likes: computers, photography, coffee (naturally) and good times with his friends.
“Send to know for whom the espresso brews; it brews for thee!”

Quick Note

Just upgraded CoffeeBear.net to WordPress 2.6. So this post is partly to make sure all my plugins are working correctly with it.
I’d also like to take a momemt to thank AWelkin & Bryon for the gifts they brought back from Japan for me. I’ve now decorated my cubicle with 3 Tachikoma gashapon. [...]

Post Flood Update

Yup, we’re still here. Just been busy/not felt like writing. Points of interest post-flood:

Drove past a hot air balloon that had landed on the side of the rode while coming back from a friend’s house.
Two days later drove under a massive lightning storm coming back from the same friend’s house.1
Tried taking some end-of/post-flood [...]

Cedar Rapids Flood 2008

I’ve taken a few photos of the flood but not yet gotten around to pulling them off my camera. I got a bit tired of waiting to post my photos over to Flickr and I wanted to see what photos some others in the area had. So I create this mosaic of the [...]

The Great Cedar Rapids Flood

Just to let everybody know, we’re still here and doing ok. Our house is approximately 1 mile outside of the 500 year flood plain1, so hopefully we won’t have to evacuate. Our main problem around here at the moment is a lack of usable water. The city only has one well working [...]

Now-Reading: Default Filters on Book-Meta

Ever since upgrading to the latest version of Rob Miller’s Now-Reading plugin, I noticed my single book pages were working but not displaying everything correctly. Specifically books I’d marked having been borrowed from my local library were being displayed as:

I borrowed this book fromlibrary

When they should simply have a line reading “I borrowed this [...]

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