William M. Hartnett

The feature story is on saving orchids from the hot, wet Florida summer. The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Worthington, between Royal Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (11.1 MB, 10 pages)

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: This post has very little to do with Backyard Post, actually. We stare at maps and code all day, people, so cut us some slack.

Just getting this on the record: I still personally hate anyone who has ever used a “Call it a/the case of …” lede (including, unless I’m very much mistaken, myself many years ago in a weak and foolish moment). Also, “person of interest” is a stupidly meaningless and especially annoying example of cop talk that [...]

By “us” I mean Floridians, of course. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests there’s something just sort of off about us, but here’s a fact that explains a lot: Nine percent of Floridians have some form of mental illness, which is three times the national rate, according to Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions. [...]

FEC, media can’t handle Obama jackpot – Politico.com Oh, dear: Obama and Clinton fundraising reports too big for the 65,536-row limit in older versions of Excel, allegedly causing headaches for the FEC and media. One hopes we would be past the point of being stymied by Office 2003, but apparently … (tags: politics obama clinton [...]

Latest “think piece” from Tribune’s Lee Abrams – Romenesko memos I Can’t BELIEVE THIS MAN GETS PAID….to write meaning-LESS NONsense LIKE THIS—he seems a little MENTAL-ly ILL! What on earth does this man…DO ALL DAY!? Among ingrediants for NOTICABLE change:VERY BAD SPELLing! Abramsie, you’re doin’ a heckuva job! (tags: tribune-co lee-abrams management newspapers) Ferraro Comments [...]

Careful readers will know that I’m a bit obsessed with tracking the mileage achieved by my occasionally loathsome 2001 Volkswagen Jetta, and with mileage standards and automotive technology more generally, and with regularly straying far from this site’s ostensible focus on journalism and cat pictures. Not that the car is anything other than exceedingly average [...]

Seems like about half of the comments I’ve left on WordPress-powered blogs running Akismet lately have been diverted into the spam queue. Maybe it knows something I don’t, but I’ll just put out a friendly reminder to check your spam folder every now and then for legitimate comments.

Let’s stay in Texas this week and have a look at the Austin American-Statesman in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. The Statesman, I suppose it should be noted, resides in the same benevolent corporate bosom as my employer.