Noah Brimhall's Weblog

Going Bye-Bye

I have liked being a beta-tester for TypePad, but alas, I cannot justify paying for TypePad. Don't get me wrong, it is super cheap and a good service. I just plan on buying a domain soon, getting a host and installing MoveableType on it, so it doesn't make sense for me to shell out money for a blog service. Thanks to the folks at Six Apart for including me in the beta-test.

Oh yeah, Six Apart gave me some discount codes for TypePad, so if you are thinking about using it and are a friend, let me know.

In Voluntary Support

One of my favorite sites MacSurfer has the following note prominently posted today:

Transit Mall Revitilization Open House

I was able to leave work early yesterday and stop by the second of TriMet's Open Houses for the Transit Mall Revitilization. The open house was held in the board room at the Port of Portland Building next to the Chinese Gardens. Inside the boardroom was about 7-10 displays showing various aspects of the proposed revitilization. There was also a small theater area were a TriMet employee showed the virtual "fly-throughs" of two of the three proposed MAX alignments. In the center of the room was a large table covered with a map showing the entire run of the transit mall along with the proposed MAX stations. Those attending the open house were encouraged to leave there comments on this map, fill out a comment card, or simply talk to one of the many city and TriMet employees circulating throught the area.

Undisclosed Location

So, I am back at work today after a nice 4-day 4th of July weekend. I went backpacking to a "undisclosed location" in the Jefferson Wilderness near Marion Lake. The reason I won't disclose the location is that I don't want anyone else to know about my favorite backpacking spot. I don't mean to sound snobish or exclusionary, but when I go backpacking, one of my primary goals is to get away from people and to try to see as few as possible. So it was a little disapointing that when my group got up to our remote lake there was already a couple people camping on one side of the lake. We did our best to ignore them and they did leave on Saturday morning so we did have a full day to ourselves. All in all it was a great trip and a lot of fun.

TypePad Beta Tester I am

I was pretty excited a few weeks back when Six Apart anounced that they would start offering a hosting service that featured there wonderful MoveableType software. So when they asked for beta testers I decided to sign up. I am not sure if I will move to TypePad when the service comes out of Beta, but I think it is very likely that I will start using MoveableType soon. While I am beta testing, I will duplicate all posts at my TypePad site. Feel free to go over and have a look and leave a comment. I won't be talking much more about TypePad since I am under a non-disclosure agreement, and I wouldn't want to crititisize a product still in beta.