The OregonStartups site is beginning to come into the modern age. Up until now, the biggest value of the site is their weekly email newsletter, which includes the most extensive local business event calendar that I’ve come across. They now publish the calendar to Google Calendar which can be subscribed to, making it super easy to know what’s going on around town. There are also a couple of blogs now (main and news), which for me anyway, is a much easier way to get information these days.

I know you want to share. Well, jump over to the head-to-head refund smackdown game that Adam and I (mostly Adam, but he’s gracious enough to say I helped :-)) just released. Best use of Income Tax Refunds If after doing that you feel inspired to go file your taxes, InstaFILE is there for you.

Yes! Somebody wrote a book about NHibernate. I can’t tell how woefully lacking NHibernate is on helpful documentation and articles. Couple that with the little time I have to work on building out my app and I am not nearly as efficient as I could be. I hope this will help. Maybe now I’ll be able to figure out how to delete a persistent object without breaking into plain old SQL and ADO.

Ducks, Cougars one of the biggest games of the weekend! This is basketball season isn’t it? Go Ducks!

SEO Toolbar: The bad, the bad, and the not so ugly There is definitely no lack of tools in SEO arena. But, there is also a wide range of quality in these tools. I have a couple of favorites in my toolbox including SearchStatus and SEO for Firefox. I have to say after giving the SEO Toolbar a run through, I like the tools overall, but I give it thumbs down and will not be adding this to the toolbox.