JR: My three favorite books - Trying to think about this after listening to a segment on public radio this afternoon. Obviously, it's tough to limit the list only to three. I guess that I base this upon the books that I have re-read most often. In Our Time - short stories by Er... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #todo #books #food #bread #design #programming #blog_jr

JR: Ten Mile Creek Farm - Community Supported Agriculture - (My ToledoTalk.com post from 2007. We were members of the Shared Legacy Farms CSA from 2008 through 2012. Great food produced by great people, but the amount of food became too much for the two of us. We buy produce from local farmers markets, includ... more>> 6 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #farming #food #health #business #blog_jr

JR: Ohio is fat and oppressed - 2009 - (My ToledoTalk.com post from 2009) Ah, the nifty 'Top-Whatever' press releases. "Unpaid placements masquerading as actual articles." That's how they're described by the book : It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014 - #media #humor #health #moronism #blog_jr

JR: Fix video embeds for Facebook and Kickstarter videos - These commands work at Toledo Talk but not here. #juncotodo
- Mar 28, 2014

JR: ToledoTalk.com New About Page - As of Mar 28, 2014. Trying to simplify. Toledo Talk is a message board, discussing the news and events in the Toledo area, including northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, which is sometimes known as [Lake Erie West]. Toledo Talk began in Januar... more>>
- Mar 28, 2014

JR: ToledoTalk.com Old About Page - As of Mar 27, 2014. The double-bracket, wiki links, however, have been modified to single brackets, so that this app does not create a bunch of stubs. Toledo Talk is a message board, discussing the news and events in the Toledo area, including nor... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 28, 2014

JR: Resolved - Add keyboard shortcuts to split-screen typing mode - update 28mar2014 - added a few more: ctrl+J - bare display that shows only the single textarea box for writing. no border, no nav bar, no buttons, no links. ctrl+H - bare display per above except textarea box is only five lines tall. ctrl+D - chang... more>>
- Mar 28, 2014 - #inprogress #junco #resolved

JR: Computer industry inventor and thinker Douglas Engelbart dies - July 2013 - Augmenting Human Intellect Douglas Doug Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing icon who invented the computer mouse and helped develop much of the modern PC user interface, passed away last night, according to family sources.... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 27, 2014 - #technology #history #blog_jr

JR: History of Hypertext - On July 2, 2013, I began reading a used book that I bought five to eight years ago. The book is titled "HyperText and HyperMedia" by Jakob Nielsen of useit.com fame. The book, however, was published in 1990. The book discusses hypertext history and a... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 27, 2014 - #web #history #technology #blog_jr

JR: Oil spill news march 2014 -
- Mar 27, 2014

JR: MH370 - March 2014 MH370 updates #news
- Mar 27, 2014

JR: Another Facebook contribution to PHP - #todo finish editing It's possible that nothing fires up a fierce debate among computing programming geeks more than a discussion of the pros and cons of the PHP programming language. PHP may be the favorite language to hate, yet it continues to be... more>> 11 min read
- Mar 26, 2014 - #todo #programming #php #history #blog_jr

JR: State of the News Media 2014 - PewResearch Journalism Project State of the News Media 2014 In its annual review of the media industry in the United States which it published online early Wednesday morning the Pew Research Center says the news business looks somewhat he... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 26, 2014 - #media #blog_jr

JR: Registry Bistro Wine Dinner - Mon, Mar 24, 2014 - I attended a Registry Bistro wine dinner in February of 2013, and it was fantastic, so I'm looking forward to this one. Another great lineup of dishes is planned. Update: No surprise that this was another fantastic experience. Great food, wine, and ... more>> 6 min read
- Mar 26, 2014 - #toledo #restaurant #food #event #wine #beverage #blog_jr

JR: Projects hosted at GitHub used to power GitHub - March 25, 2014 https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github The projects that interest me: defunkt/jquery-pjax pushState + ajax = pjax elasticsearch/elasticsearch Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine antirez/redis Redis i... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 25, 2014 - #programming #opensource #design #blog_jr