Chair lift.

If you though the time for purchasing an Oregon Sno-Park permit is coming up in a couple of weeks, November 15, guess again.

The Sno-Park season begins two weeks earlier, thanks to a change in the law. The official start date is November 1, 2008. The end date, April 30, has not changed.

Annual passes are $20, three consecutive day pass, $7, one day pass is $3. All passes have a small fee if purchased at a commercial retailer (no fee if purchased from the DMV).

Parking in a Sno-Park area without a permit may result in a $30 fine.

Read the Oregon Department of Transportation Press Release, October 24, 2008

I recently tried with my photo gallery the idea to categorize the images by date. Apparently, comment feedback and viewer numbers both showed the results were discouraging. It also meant difficult navigation.

The photo gallery was offline for a few hours this morning while I categorized the images. The photos are categorized by topic. Specific albums are located inside the category, sorted alphabetically with a brief description and a thumbnail image.

I thought categorizing the images by date would be easier because it would tag the recent uploaded photos, then site visitors would seek for specifics by using the search field for other content. That method left visitors to play the home game “Battleship” by guessing to see if the topic keyword exists or not. “Ramona Falls?” Miss. “Mt. Hood?” Hit.

Paul Bausch, ORblogs.com’s (www.orblogs.com) administrator announced today that his website that feeds updates from blogs located within the state of Oregon, has closed. The sudden announcement was a surprise for me, but I understand his reasoning that the task of once being a hobby has now become a full time job. ORBlogs was not just a place for me to automatically announce my website updates, but it was also a place to preview what other people are saying on their blogs.

Bausch also said on his website that the current ORblog members list will remain available for thirty days, so anyone who wishes to gather last minute RSS feed or blog address can do so at www.orblogs.com. Orblogs started operations in March, 2003.

Although I don’t know Mr. Bausch personally, but I just want to say thank you, Mr. Bausch, for your dedicated service for all the bloggers. You will be missed.

B. Dorr’s Blog usually updates to Google’s search engines fairly quickly.