The golden spike was driven in to the playa of Black Rock City on Wednesday. You can see some photos and a write-up from the DPW crew right here. From there they start to map out the streets and grid the city. Once completed, the big projects can be erected – the man, center camp, …
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WordPress Database Backup
Skippy has a very snazzy WordPress Database Backup plugin. I just loaded it up on mine and it works fine (1&1 hosting). This is really nice for me. Previously I had to login to my hosting account, go to the mysql admin, then run a backup on the tables. Now I can schedule backups, and …
History and UE
Human footprints discovered beside an ancient Mexican lake have been dated to 40,000 years ago. Hopefully this will finally make people take a closer look at the Clovis and pre-Clovis viewpoints. Oh, we finally are getting some results on the Kennewick Man after a long legal battle. Newton’s alchemy manuscript rediscovered in the vaults of …
Peaks
Saudi officials saying that the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will be unable to meet projected western demand in 10 to 15 years. This is a bit of a surprise, considering how optimistic OPEC usually is. I found this 3 part interview with Matthew R. Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, very interesting. …
SD Housing
I’ve been meaning to write on San Diego and housing, but so many other people already are: The Professor Piggington’s Econo-Almanac deals with the San Diego market and has some really good analysis with their Bubble Primer: Conventional wisdom goes that San Diego is experiencing a severe housing crisis with no end in sight. The …