Matthew LaVelle’s weblog

Ok, so I live in a city populated by approximately 25,000 humans in Southern Oregon. So, you’d think that on a Sunday that one could go out and get a coffee with a friend at a nice little cafe or something. After all, this is the northwest, right? Check again my friend.

I’ve been working with a marketing representative from out of town and I’ve done one freelance project with her to date. It went very well. Recently, I’ve began working on our second client’s web site project, and I’ve already made more than one mistake. I’ve missed two deadlines in the last two weeks. Wow. That [...]

Calling all cars! I mean, towing all cars!? Um….er…darn. There goes my chance at a decent pun. Readers, I need your help. I have a good friend whose car is broken. Bad water pump apparently. The thing is, we need to get his car to Diamond Lake Blvd. from Redneck Green district. My trusty steed [...]

I just upgraded from Wordpress 1.0.2 to Wordpress 1.2.2. Wordpress is the open source software package that allows me to have a web log at all. The upgrade did not go as smoothly as I thought it would though. Not because of Wordpress but because of my archane FTP program. I need a new [...]

Medically speaking, that is. I went to the official follow up on the MRI today. I have a herniated disk. So then my doctor says this….could be bad. So now my mind is racing! I’m thinking “oh no, surgery, back pain, wheelchair, end of normal life” and then she stops me with Let me explain. [...]