A visit

Joe and Carol paid us a visit yesterday, and we had a grand time as we always do. What great folks. We had initially planned to lunch at Amadeus Cafe, a local favorite of Erin’s and mine, but they were inexplicably closed (and I know we’ve been there on a...

Yeah, OK

Yeah, OK, so I got tired of my web site looking awful in Apple’s Safari web browser. I was going to wait until Safari left beta before mucking with my code, but I’m using Safari full-time, and frankly, I’d recommend it to anyone running Mac OS 10.2....

Local foods

I’ve recently gotten religion about buying locally. I’ve long given a preferential eye to locally-made items, but Oregon’s woeful economic times have provided an extra impetus and incentive for scouring the store shelves for local products. I’m...

Marching for peace

We went marching to give peace a chance yesterday, joining another 1100 folks on a rather subdued winding parade through downtown Salem. (Favorite sign: “What is our oil doing under their sand?”) Like the millions across the world who also gathered to...

Restructuring

It’s been six years now since I started Davison Online, and it’s time (or perhaps past due) for a change. When I started this site back in 1997, nobody had heard of weblogs or blogging, and frankly, given non-technical nature many in my readership, it may...