(My March 2007 ToledoTalk.com post)

(My Nov 7, 2012 ToledoTalk.com post )

Wikipedia: Nate Silver - Statistician

Website: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://fivethirtyeight.com/ (launched in March 2014)

In the 2008 presidential election, Nate's math model correctly predicted the winner in 49 of 50 states.

"For me, it’s nothing more than what you would see etched on a bathroom wall." - Mark Suster, venture capitalist

"People use Facebook to say all kinds of terrible things. It really just depends on who is in your network." - Christopher Poole, 4chan founder

According to Secret founders, quality content comes from dialogue and honest conversations.

We left home around 9:00 a.m. and returned home around 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Another fine day visiting and shopping at local businesses.

Toledo Talk thread about malls, shopping, and gift ideas.

My suggestion

"Zingerman's baking classes make great gifts. Nothing to ship."

A user responded:

I'm afraid if I gave cooking classes of any kind it might be misinterpreted. Like the vacuum or the exercise bike.

My response:

I'm thinking about retiring from political voting, so that I can pursue other projects, spend more time with my family, and give others a chance to vote, especially young people :)

November 2013 may have been my last vote. Month 11 and year 13, a couple nice prime numbers. That's a good mathematical time to retire.

Junco was designed to support multiple users who create blog posts, microblog posts, replies, and follow users and tags. But Junco can be used as a personal publishing site too.

Downtown Toledo
Farmers Market and Library

We started the morning at the downtown Toledo farmers market where we purchased apples, carrots, eggs, greens, coffee beans, yellow onions, a soft pretzel, and either turnips or parsnips.

• March 2014 - Brent Simmons - Imagining a Node Blogging System for Geeks
• March 2011 - Brent Simmons - A plea for baked weblogs
• July 2002 - Aaron Swartz - Bake, Don’t Fry

When I started blogging in the summer of 2001, I used a Perl app called Greymatter that allowed for content management through the browser, but the app created static files. No database. It was simple but effective. I enjoyed using it. I also deployed it at work as my personal knowledge management system (notebook).

I created the first Mud Hen Hash House Harriers website with Greymatter. Here's a view of the site from November 2002 at archive.org.

(New brewery for Toledo. My Mar 7, 2014 comment in a ToledoTalk.com thread.)

"i'd be nervous about the shift from home brewing to large batches."

Isn't that how most if not all craft breweries got started?

Minimal layout. Responsive Design. Uses Google fonts.

These four examples use the jQuery plugin mmenu for the sliding menus.

• Article One
• Article Two
• Article Three
• Article Four

I prefer the article page not contain a menu navigation area nor a hamburger icon menu selection. And I now prefer that the header area not be fixed. I want the article page to focus on the content. The article page can contain a home link at the top and maybe a search link. The site's menu options can be listed on the home page. I'd like to see the article page kept clean.

These pages use Font Awesome icons for menu links at the top corners. Google Fonts are used. The font family and the font size for the main content area for each article are listed below. More font information is contained at the bottom of each web page.

• Article Five A - Droid Serif, 1.2em
• Article Five B - PT Serif, 1.2em
• Article Five C - Merriweather, 1.15em
• Article Five D - Merriweather, 1.2em
• Article Five E - Open Sans, 1.2em
• Article Five F - Open Sans, 125%
• Article Five G - Open Sans, 130%

These pages use real text from my pizza-making blog post, except that the text contained within the sample pages below is incomplete and out of order. It's not the entire post. It's just placeholder text. The same photos are used as placeholders too.

• Pizza 1 - Open Sans, 125%
• Pizza 2 - Merriweather, 1.2em
• Pizza 3 - Droid Serif, 125%

These sample pages contain an actual Toledo Blade news story. I do not have their permission to reproduce the content, so this may not stay here. I wanted an example of real news story. I would pay for content displayed like this.

Here's the Toledo Blade story
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2014/01/31/Last-Alarm-rings-for-fallen-heroes.html

My examples:

• TB 1 - Open Sans, 125%
• TB 2 - Open Sans, 1.2em
• TB 3 - Merriweather, 1.15em
• TB 4 - Merriweather, 1.2em
• TB 5 - Droid Serif, 1.2em

I like the font family and size setup for numbers 2 and 3 the best. I think that site owners should include a text-resizer option on their sites, so that users can adjust the text size, according to their eyes and the devices that they are using.

It's easy to change the font size for a web page when using a browser on a desktop or laptop, but most reading today is done on a mobile device. Site owners should make it simple for users to change the font size when the page is being viewed on a phone or tablet.

tags: #cms - #design - #menu - #blog_jr

(My Mar 3, 2014 ToledoTalk.com comment to someone who is running his first marathon at the Glass City Marathon in Toledo in April.)

Best of luck. That's quite a leap from a 5K to a marathon. I completed five marathons long ago. I ran the Glass City Marathon when it was the old course where we started downtown and ran across the High Level Bridge and along the Maumee River from Rossford to Perrysburg, then over the bridge to Maumee and around Side Cut Metropark, and finally back along the river on the Toledo side to finish downtown. It was a fine course.

Created on Feb 26-27, 2014.

On Feb 28, 2014, this code was incorporated into the ToledoTalk.com (TT) message board at: http://toledotalk.com/chat.

This barebones app could be used for simple chatting or live-blogging by TT users.

Related post: Simple chat web app for Toledo Talk

https://www.newschallenge.org

Project ideas need to answer the question:

"How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?"

Deadline for idea submissions is Mar 18, 2014.

My idea is not mine. I nominate the IndieWeb. http://indiewebcamp.com

Toledo Blade - Mar 2, 2014 - Winter brings more headaches in ‘Pothole Alley’ - "Rapid freeze-thaws wreak havoc on crumbling city infrastructure"