Monthly Archives: June 2007

Stats and formats

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 26, 2007

I was a sitemeter user for years and years.  I developed my compulsive blog traffic checking habit on sitemeter.  Sitemeter became my drug of choice.  Then one day several months ago, the sitemeter server (S24) that provided my free daily stimulant began behaving badly.  I ditched the service and went to statcounter.  Over the months [...]

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Health Care Consumers

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 25, 2007

Wisconsin Public Radio host Ben Merens ought to turn in his turtle neck and get a job on Wall Street or Madison Avenue. This afternoon his show pandered to “big health business.” Ben asked, “How can we be better health care consumers?” What a question! “How are hospitals competing for our business?” How absurd! Ben’s [...]

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Much messing around with WordPress

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 24, 2007

As the Israelis prepare for war, and Bloomberg tries to decide whether to spoil the election for the Republicans… as Google tries to have its fortune cookie and eat it too… while the Senate tries to keep the flames of xenophobia brightly lit along our southern border, I have been futzing around with WordPress trying [...]

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Pig Truck!

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 23, 2007

Pinewood Derby had come and gone. The Paynter boys had received jack knives with their derby kits, and we all sat together carving our entries from the Cub Scout issue rectilinear wood blocks contained in the kits. Meanwhile, in upscale garages across Marin County, fathers were powering up their lathes, their planers, their radial arm [...]

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Digby, Digby, Digby…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 23, 2007

Digby cites an LA Times story that ranks the US sixth in overall quality of health care compared to six other “industrialized countries.”  Sixth doesn’t sound that bad when you consider the 2000 WHO report that ranked us 24th for life expectancy and 39th for overall quality of health care out of 190 countries. [tags]lying [...]

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f8 worse than blog

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 23, 2007

Anyone can be a facebook developer.  Who knew?  Seems logical to me that heavy WordPress/facebook integration is about to happen… or perhaps already happened and I’m just slow getting the news.  Twitter already feeds your facebook.  Why shouldn’t facebook feed your blog?   Here are a couple of photo plug-ins that seem to  make this real.   [...]

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Intentional Broccoli

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 22, 2007

The produce is rolling in.  Every week between now and sometime in October we will get a dozen eggs from healthy chickens and a heap of vegetables.  We’ve had just the right amount of rain interspersed with hot sunny days and Blue Moon Community Farm here at Sandhill headquarters is thriving.  The challenge is to [...]

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Sunday Link Giving on a Thursday this week…

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 21, 2007

Dave Winer says he’d like to be back in the Technorati top 100, pointing out that he was number one when the game began. I’d like to help him out. Doc Searls is into his schtick today, providing supernova conference viewpoints like only Doc can do: playing David to Nathan Myhrvold’s Goliath, dishing on Myhrvold’s [...]

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