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Ah, it's that time again. Time to plan for summer concerts. A quick review of all the craptastic concert calendar sites shows me too many artists coming to town this summer. Who should I see?

• ColoradoInfo.com which is pretty disorganized...but seems decent.
• Westwords Concert Search which is just plain overwhelming
• DenverPost.com Summer Concert Calendar
• Boulder Daily Camera less complete, easier to digest, not Boulder focused (odd, that last bit)
• Denver Botanic Gardens Concerts which are, at least somewhat, already sold out!
• KBCO Concert List which should be awesome but, is kind of hard to navigate. What's up with the website, guys, 3 clicks to get to the concert list?

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If you ask to become my friend on facebook and I respond by assigning some strange social map characteristics, I'm sorry. The thing is, when that little "How do you know...?" box pops up I just have this amazing urge to select the wrong thing.

I'm not entirely sure why I get this urge. I mean, in general I like having structured data about the world that is accurate. Is it just an immature joke like "it's funny cause it's not true"?

Above, What I should select vs. below, What I want to select.

On a related note, I've listed my relationship as "it's complicated" because let's face it, being married is complicated. I mean, she is a complex woman!

I write this because I'm curious if it happens to the rest of you.

Also, my facebook page or linked in profile. Yeah. I'm hip to the social networks. (p.s. - if you add me on one of those, feel free to make up ridiculous claims about our "social map").

This is awesome. The Democratic National Convention Committee has announced a credentialing process for bloggers so that bloggers can cover the event with permission and access that will help them get a scoop not unlike the old-school media. That blog post makes it clear that it will be in a separate "pool" which is a slight bummer, but giving bloggers the same access as old-school media is probably just forward leaning enough to make the old-school people pout. This is a great step for citizen media and freedom of speech.

Are You Cool Enough to Blog the Denver Democratic Convention?

The requirements they have for applying seem interesting.

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I went on a month long backpacking trip when I was 16 with an organization called NOLS. It was good fun and I learned quite a bit

My trip leader was Laura Ordway and she had this great phrase:

Boje the sequence

When you "boje the sequence" you messed up. You did something in the wrong order, or didn't do a step, and it has effects on other steps in a process. I'm not sure whether part of the definition includes that it's friendly, or if that was just Laura's way, but it's something you can say to a friend who has messed up and it has an undertone of "It's OK, I'll help make it right". I looked around and didn't see that on the internet, so I thought I'd include the knowledge here in case anyone else needs a good phrase like this.

Yay WRW61394!

A good friend and former coworker of mine, Ryan Sevier, has been a golf nut as long as I've known him. The way that I covet a chipotle burrito Ryan loves golf. We worked together writing software to solve problems for telecommunications companies (which he still does...). He's realizing that a great way to find personal happiness is to combine his love for golf with his career. While it's a long road to get there, Ryan is starting down the path of becoming a PGA Pro and finding other ways to get more involved in the golf lifestyle. To help him share that story with others and keep track of his progress we created Colorado Golf Life.

Colorado Golf Course Listing, Scores, and Golf Blog

The site currently has the facility to record golf courses with address information, par, and an indication about the cost of the courses. Possible future additions would be images with maps of the courses and tips about how to play specific holes. Currently it just has two courses, but obviously that number will increase as Ryan plays more places.

There's also the facility to record golf round information so that as Ryan goes back to Indian Tree Golf Course over the years he will be able to track his progress (or lack thereof!).

And of course there's got to be a blog for him to express his thoughts on golfing and also any news about the site.

I had heard weeks ago from chatting with Mike Hostetler that he was working on a code repository for jQuery plugins which got me quite excited. Historically getting specific versions of jQuery plugins has been a little difficult. Now there's a great jQuery Plugin Repository that replaces the Wiki. The recent jQuery Blog post discusses the new system:

The new repository comes with a few features that are sure to help users to find what they’re looking for and determine which plugins will best suit their needs. There’s the (jQuery-based) ratings widget to let you know how highly others value each plugin. The ratings are viewable by all, and you can rate them yourself by simply registering on the site with a user name and email address. You’ll also have easier access to change logs, demos, and documentation, as well as bug reporting and feature requests.

Of course the site has tell-tale signs that it's running Drupal and other signs show that it's running the well regarded project module to manage the releases, issues, feature requests, and module listings.

Congrats to Mike and the jQuery web team on an important job well done and congrats to Drupal and Derek Wright (dww) for being selected as the platform behind yet another plugin repository. Now, if we can only see about getting those fivestar ratings available on the Drupal.org module download page ;)