WordPress 3.0 came out weeks ago, but I just recently got around to updating. Over the years one of the biggest problems I have faced when a new version of WordPress is released is that things get whacked out with whatever theme I happen to be using. Well, thus far everything seems to be working pretty well with Arthemia (knocks wood). One of the new features in WP 3.0 is a much more robust interface to handle the creation of custom menus. This is handy to…

Back in December when I restarted this blog, I committed to myself that I would write 100 posts in 100 days. I completed that back on March 31st, and then immediately took an unintended hiatus. What ever happened to “old habits die hard?” Writing posts for 100 days straight in a row only felt like a chore maybe four days total (I will let you figure which days those were). The only real problem with being so slavish and dogmatic about it is that I began…

“Would you marry the same person again?” This was the question that Readers Digest posed to readers in an international poll conducted in 15 countries. The survey concluded that 68 percent of all respondents would say “I do” again to their spouse. Surprisingly, it was only slightly lower in the United States at 63 percent. The same survey over at Answer.com has a much more depressing result, revealing that only 29% of respondents would pick the same spouse if they had to do it over again.…

For the past year and a half, three Rural Studio thesis students have been constructing a hybrid soccer/football field, new parking and a skatepark organized around a common public space better know as the Great Lawn. The community’s desire for a skatepark led to the application and reception of a $25,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation. To stretch these generous resourses to their maximum, and integrate these typically urban elements into the rural landscape, the students proposed using landforms to soften the park and…