I caught the Van Halen tour as it swung through San Jose (got a free ticket, no less). Pretty good if you’re into that sorta thing. I was, in about 1978. If you did, too, back then, they’re worth checking…
Mangan’s memoirs
What I’m up to this morning
by tom • December 11, 2007 • 2 Comments
I figured out awhile back that the paper’s posting only about six weeks’ worth of my hiking columns, so I’m building an archive of them here instead. They’re in the rail under “local park profiles.” These are the ones I’ve…
Hiking capital of the universe declared
by tom • December 2, 2007 • 4 Comments
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams I thought about declaring the San Francisco Bay Area the hiking capital of…
RSS reader update
by tom • November 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
Near as I can tell, all the feeds are feeding. Tested on several readers including Bloglines, MyYahoo and Google. So, any minute now I might start working on some hiking-related content.
Getting sorta back to normal
by tom • November 24, 2007 • 2 Comments
Ok, so we’re getting near the point where some actual hiking related content can happen here. If you’re an RSS reader, you’ll probably want to re-subscribe to the feeds.
I now have a comments feed
by tom • November 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Click here to subscribe to it I’m pretty much done tweaking stuff now … got most of my ads on the right side and the blog posts on the left — theoretically this design will also make the site easier…
Just a quick pic
by tom • November 11, 2007 • 2 Comments
Showed off the sights at Mount Madonna County Park, saw some cool fog and sun.
Rejiggering the page…
by tmangan • November 9, 2007 • 2 Comments
Hope this doesn’t cause too much annoyance… I want to put all the content on the left hand side and leave some space on the right for crass commercialism.
State of the blog update
by tmangan • October 29, 2007 • 13 Comments
It’s been a good four months since I tossed caution to the wind and decided the thing to do about my disappointing blog traffic would be to narrow this site’s focus and guarantee an even smaller audience. Well, traffic went…