Tonight at GoodLife Brewing is the Ignite Bend Battledecks event and voting party: the free “Ignite improv” event where you can come and sign up to do an impromptu presentation to a bunch of slides you’ve never seen—or simply come and enjoy watching others do it. In addition, it’s also the official “voting party” for Ignite Bend 8: there will be paper ballots with all of the proposals listed and you can vote on your … Continue reading →
I wrote at the beginning of the month about the Abbey Pub changing hands, to become the Broken Top Bottle Shop, and by the end of this week (if all goes well) the new beer bar (or Ale Café as they are naming it) should be open. Last week one of the owners, Diana Fischetti, had left a comment on my beer blog about the new Bottle Shop, with a lot of good details: The … Continue reading →
The 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, … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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