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New site

Been a little off my track here on for a few different reasons. Life off the web got a little crazy has a lot to do with it, so haven’t really been able to get caught up on all of my side projects. (This site being one of them.) I have about [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Rolling into February

Wow, somehow we are rolling into February 2010 already.  I am behind on my photo project, yet I kind of suspected that would happen.  I have been focusing on things over at Epic Plains and that is going pretty well actually.  I have been doing a lot of book reviews and am managing about twice [...]

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

9 years of OlorinPC.com

Wow – how things change.  9 years ago today I first registered olorinpc.com 1/1/2001.  This site has undergone quite a few transformations over the years.  From a hand-coded in html site to a full blog running the latest version of wordpress.
My old logo:

A few different versions from mid-2001 till last year when I went to [...]

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Scanner site closed

For those who were aware of it, I did have a website called “Scanner Whores.”  I recently closed down the site and let the domain expire.  The domain name and website are from an old joke.
I closed it down mostly because I didn’t use it at all, never updated it, and it never received above [...]

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Epic Plains – 2010 Writing Goals

As I mentioned in my Goals for 2010 post, I have some goals for writing this next year.  On that note, I would like to introduce a project I have been working on related to that:
Epic Plains – An epic place with epic stories – welcome to Epic Plains.
The site is going to serve a [...]

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Red Hot Fire Days – Flickr set up!

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Originally uploaded by Olorinpc

I now have all of the pictures from LaMoure’s Red Hot Fire Days posted to flickr. Stop by and check them out!
Flickr set

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Red Hot Fire Days

Jennie and I went down to Lamoure, ND to partake in their “Red Hot Fire Days” even down there.  A couple of friends from the Jamestown Fire Department invited me down with them to be on a team.  (There was a Firefighters Rodeo in the evening.)
We had a blast participating in the events.  Managed to [...]

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The Jamestown Sun | JRFD Fire 7.19.09

The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota
Fire we responded to last night.  It sounds like it wasn’t a controlled burn but a suspicious fire in an abandoned home.
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Technorati Tags: JRFD, Fire Department, Jake Barnard, olorinpc

Monday, July 20th, 2009

200th Post on Olorinpc.com

Well, I was working on a draft of a new post and I noticed that I was at 199 posts. I figured I would put a quick note about that up. It is kind of neat actually. One way or another I have been having this blog and it’s format since 2005.
It [...]

Friday, December 12th, 2008

A Primer on Monetization

Jake and I agreed to swap guest posts, so I find myself writing for you all here at Jake’s Corner.  If you aren’t familiar with me already, I normally can be found writing at my home site of Thatedeguy.com.
One of the things that Jake and I have been discussing a lot lately as he ramped [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008