Online dining guide and restaurant reviews

The other day I managed to secure the dining-guide.org domain name.

The Dining Guide will offer restaurant and cafe patrons a place to share their experiences with others. How many times have you had a bad experience in a restaurant and later talked with a friend to learn they had a simliar one? Would you rather know where the exceptional food and service is? Would you rather know a head of time if the restaurant is family friendly? I certainly would and that is one of the reasons why I am building the site.

I have seen many sites offering variations on this same theme, however, none of them have the feature sets and usability that I will be implementing on the Dining Guide site.

Stay tuned and be sure to watch the site over the next few weeks.

Gas Leak!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was punctuated earlier this morning by a knock on our door. One of the sub-contractors working next to our neighbor's house had punctured a gas line while excavating. Whoops. They advised we might want to evacuate the house, just to be on the safe side, until the gas company could cap the broken line. It seemed like a reasonable suggestion so we headed a few doors down to the development's show home and office to wait.

All in all we were only out of the house for about 15 minutes before the gas company showed up and fixed the leak. I was pleased that my house was still where I left it and that it did not end up resembling a pile of popsicle sticks.

New Home

We have purchased our first house. After a mountain of paperwork and several delays we were finally able to move in late this afternoon.

Effigy Interactive Shutting Down

After six and half years of operating my web hosting and design company, Effigy Interactive, I have decided to close it down by the end of 2006. The web hosting server has only been servicing a handful of customers for the past couple of years and I was happy to keep it going as long as it was providing a service to the existing customers.

As customers have migrated their sites to other servers and other designers have taken over I let the numbers dwindle down to the point where I felt comfortable that it was time for me to let go. I have learned a lot since April 2000 when I began the adventure, however, the time has come to move on to other things.

Goodbye Pottery Tea Mug

Today I was instrumental in the destruction of my favourite pottery tea mug. I would guess the drop to have been only three inches or so onto the cold concrete of the garage this afternoon. Its fall was not far; it was, however, enough. Cold, unforgiving concrete. Cursed concrete. Cursed hands of mine for letting the mug slip from my fingers to its destruction.

Marriage may tame genius

A buddy of mine sent me this link a year and a half ago and I have hung onto it determined to prove them wrong.

It won't happen tonight, nor probably tomorrow. Perhaps one day.