Ignite Bend proposal deadline is tomorrow

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Jon

Ignite BendThe deadline for proposals for the next Ignite Bend is tomorrow—Friday, January 27th. So if you have a burning desire to give a five-minute presentation on stage (on anything you want, really, as long as it’s not a sales pitch or recruiting spiel) now’s your chance to submit your idea!

And, once proposals are closed, online voting opens the next day for the submitted proposals: only ten of the submissions will be presenting at Ignite, so that means you get to vote on which presentations you’d like to see on stage.

Right now there are 22 proposals submitted, but there’s always room for more!

Disclosure: I am on the Ignite Bend planning committee these days.

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Site cleanup and recovery

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Jon

As I’d twittered and posted on Facebook over the weekend, this blog (and a bunch of other sites that were on the same server account) had been hacked with some malicious server code that was redirecting referring links away to some sort of spam/malware sites.

Ah yes, the irony of a blog with “Hack” in the title itself getting hacked.

So I’ve been mostly offline, cleaning up the sites and infected files and locking down the server so that it (hopefully) won’t happen again. So far, so good.

Everything should be back online and working now, let me know if something isn’t, and we’ll resume our regular programming…

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Poverty Weekend

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Jon

This Saturday and Sunday, January 21st and 22nd, is “Poverty Weekend” as a part of the larger “Poverty in America Awareness Month” being promoted by the Partnership to End Poverty. For this upcoming weekend Greg forwarded the link to the document (PDF) that talks about it:

As part of this awareness campaign, during the weekend of January 21-22, 2012, people of faith across Central Oregon will be discussing poverty, its effects on people and our communities, the barriers people face and our commitments to help. We are calling this weekend, “Poverty Weekend.”

The culmination of this weekend will be an interfaith U2charist service held at First Presbyterian Church in Bend, Sunday, January 22, 2012. This service, featuring U2 music and with a free-will offering for Bethlehem Inn, will be held at 5:01, followed by a light meal and a community discussion on the Occupy Movement.

All are welcome for the Sunday service, of course, and for more information on that you can contact 541-382-4401.

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Snow day for Bend-La Pine schools

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Jon

Heads up Central Oregonians: The Bend – La Pine School District has closed all schools due to snow today, Wednesday, January 18th. The snow continues to fall so keep your kids home.

You can always call and check the school district status at (541) 323-SNOW (7669).

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Togo’s in the old Quiznos

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Jon

Togo's SandwichesOver on the eastside, a Togo’s Sandwich Shop is set to open in the space formerly occupied by Quiznos. According to the Bulletin, the opening should be February 1st.

I know next to nothing about Togo’s as a brand, but apparently there are some 240 of them around; but it looks like pastrami is one of their big signatures. Has anyone tried them? Are they good?

They should be open in a couple weeks to find out; they’re on east Highway 20, next to Double Happiness and across the street from the East Bend Library.

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