Refenestration Daily.
As mentioned at DFWBlogs, the Dallas bloggers are meeting Wednesday at The Hurricane Grill.
The DFWBlogs page links to the Hurricane Grill review at GuideLive. But, for those going, there’s also another Hurricane Grill review at the Dallas Observer.
I quite enjoyed the last blogger Cocktail Event, so I think I’ll go to this one as well :).
BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows the user to keep in his personal web page a list with the last songs played in his Winamp. This list is update by FTP in real time.
Hmm, it looks somewhat interesting. Of course, I don’t listen to mp3s much due to their low sound quality, but perhaps others would find this useful. So, hey, leave a comment if you give this a try.
(Link from the mailing list of WebWord, a usability website)
Hand Coding may have appeared down for part of the day, but my hosting provider was just upgrading their boxes. So, now that the DNS has propagated, everything’s all right.
I went to the DFWBlogs Cocktail Event earlier this evening, held this month at the Uptown Bar and Grill. I really had a good time. There’s just something pleasant about good conversation among people sharing a commonality (in this case, blogging). And, in many ways, the Uptown Bar and Grill turned out to be the anti-bar (a good thing).
And, the food was reasonably priced as well — I ordered a burger for about $6. But, this was no ordinary burger — Uptown Bar and Grill’s burgers have apparently been voted as Best Burger in the March 2002 issue of D Magazine. And, it was very tasty. Definitely one of the top 5 burgers that I’ve had.
Up until that point, Uptown Bar and Grill seemed to be a great find, but it wasn’t completely perfect. For my Sam Adams that I ordered to go with my burger, I was charged $4.25 as an Import Beer. What? Did Boston secede from the Union while I wasn’t looking? Bah.
But, other than that, I give high marks to Uptown Bar and Grill. And, I look forward to the next DFWBlogs get-together.
In a comment to the “Fifty ways to love America” post, Mike writes:
What's with you and Britain all the time? I thought you grew up in Pennsylvania.
Well, Mike’s right — I did grow up in Pennsylvania, specifically Pittsburgh. However, though my parents are now American citizens, they grew up in South Africa, which was formerly part of the British commonwealth. So, like Australia or other former-commonwealth countries, South Africa has many of Britiain’s customs and culture.
At any rate, maybe that’s why I score “40% British” on the “How British Are You?” page ;).