Coffee and Oranges Archive

I’ve spent the day loading the data from my Coffee and Oranges weblog archives into Movable Type. The format can be found at Coffee and Oranges. You can search both Five Acres with a View (this weblog) and Coffee and Oranges (my old weblog) using the search box on the sidebar.

Web design postcards

This site with web design postcards suggests:

Elegant, flexible designs, easier maintenance and lower bandwidth costs. Don’t you wish you were here? Look through these postcards for coding, design and content tips for your own sites, and if one of the sites you visit regularly doesn’t measure up, why not show them you care by emailing them the URL of an applicable card?

(via Growing Leaves)

A nice walk ruined

I’ve played one game of golf in my life. Many years ago, a friend who played golf wanted to take Jack to the ritzy, public golf course on Palos Verde. She didn’t want them to be put with another couple to make a foursome, so I got drafted. I thought I did fairly well for someone who had never held a driver before, and had only played putt-putt golf a few times. But it didn’t go down on my list of things I was desperate to try again.
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