I could not be happier that, today, I can finally tell you what I've been spending just about every waking moment on this summer at work!
We've just launched a new high school sports Web site that, honestly, I think is the best work our team has ever done. It looks nice, it's easy to navigate, and it has a LOT of stuff.
Check it out at GameTimePA.com. We'll be running a live scoreboard of tonight's first-of-the-season football games, so bookmark it and check back often!
I got an e-mail recently from John Stine, chairman of York's Police Heritage Museum, letting me know about their web site, policeheritagemuseum.com.
John writes:
The Police Heritage Museum in downtown York, showcases over 200 years of law enforcement history. Although we are a small non-profit organization, we have for 13 years collected and preserved artifacts that relate to law enforcement in York County as well as agencies outside of York and Pennsylvania. Presently we have approximately 3400 square feet of displays, with many more artifacts to be displayed. We feel it is as important to preserve law enforcement history as it is any other facet of our heritage.
Check out their site if you get a chance. Being a police officer at any time is not an easy job, but when you think about how much harder it was in the days before cars, radio, the Internet... wow, my respect for those old-time officers is immense.
(Make sure you check out the Lockups virtual exhibit on the site. It taught me a lot about the former jail buildings I've seen around the county, like the one by the Dover Park, pictured above!)
Jess was posting on the biz blog about a site that tells you how "walkable" your neighborhood is - in other words, how much is there within walking distance, or do you have to drive to everything?
My West Manchester Township neighborhood is in the middle of EVERYTHING, so I expected something like an 80 or above. But, surprisingly, we only got a 58! I would guess there aren't many places in York County that would rate higher - even in the city, where there's a lot of "stuff," grocery stores aren't really that walkable.
Try it out and let me know how your part of the county fares.
I've been fairly quiet on the blog front over the last few days... I'll have a longer update maybe tomorrow on some of my recent doings (including a hike into an old mine at Raab Park!) - but in the meantime, here's what I've been working on.
Remember my recent rant on Internet spammers who couldn't even get my name right?
Well, a totally unsolicited news release in the ol' inbox this week (is THAT irony or what?) from MessageLabs, which bills itself as "the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide," claimed to have the year-to-date spam rates for individual states.
Guess what??? Pennsylvania's number 9! So I bet I'm not the only Yorker getting more than my share of spam, huh? (The full top ten is, as follows, Illinois, South Dakota, Oregon, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania and Alabama.)
Just because I can, I wanted to make a special post showing off the work of my friend Tiffypop, an East Berlin native who's roaming the country selling her way-cool, handmade clothes at shows and festivals.
(And, a little birdie tells me she's getting MARRIED this month, too!)
I was thinking of Tiffy today because I'm wearing one of her "swirly skirts," patterned after some hippie classics. The picture is Tiffy on the beach, wearing one of the swirlies.
Shameless promotion: Check out her Etsy store if you want to order any of her homemade goodies yourself.
No, she's not paying me to do this. I'm just soooo comfy in this swirly today that I wanted to share the love.
Since I happen to know that at least a few of my readers are also pretty stellar photographers, I thought I'd point out that there's still time to enter our 2008 Summer Photo Contest.
Here's one of my favorite shots so far:
"Gobble, Gobble" - Reader Julie says this is a pet Narrangansett turkey who says YAY for vegetarians!
Want to enter yours? Click here to submit your photo. (And here to read the rules.)
Happy snapping. I'll post more of my favorites as the contest deadline nears. I'm in no way an official judge, though, so impress the photo staff, not me!! :)
It's been a busy week here at the paper, especially online. In addition to our regular work, we've recently launched our "Green in York" section, our "Education today" section and made a lot of improvements to our history section, including creating new subsections on York's role in the Civil War and in the Revolutionary War.
Wow.
Oh, and spring sports all-stars start tomorrow... so that's what I'm working on right now. Check them out throughout the week; we'll be kicking off with boys' volleyball and proceeding through tennis, soccer, baseball, softball and track and field.
In my spare time at home, I've been trying to finish a 300-puzzle sudoku book that I started in 2005. I'm on 289... the end is in sight! Wish me luck - in both work and non-work endeavors!
Happy blog birthday to meeeee!!!! One year ago today, I made my first post, about the World's Greatest Yard Sale.
On that day, "Umbrella" by Rihanna was the number-one song. Here are the number-one songs for EVERY June 9 from 1891 to the present.
If you really want to know what happened on this day in history, check out our online history section.
I've posted a lot before about York County's one-room schoolhouses, but how about a site that's a little more based in the present?
Check out our new Education today section, which made its debut earlier this week. One of my copy editors, Marie Elena, worked on it with Nickie Dobo, our education reporter.
I'm going to put Marie Elena on the spot and ask you to let her know what you. You can reach her at mciocci@ydr.com.
Don't be mean to her, though (not that you have a reason to - it's a good site). But she'll kill me!
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