Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Had a great turkey dinner today. The brined turkey really works well, although it makes the dark meat taste almost cured. The white meat really comes out super well. Did it on the Rotisserie that we got. Took 2 1/2 hours for a 12 lb bird. Best tip of all. Connie cuts a little hole…

CSS Introduction. Ok, I’m finally going to make my sites look good and to do that I need to learn CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). AGain, thanks to google, here is the top CSS tutorial. Wish me luck!

blo.gs. This is the second biggest blog trakcing site. It is amazing, There are currently 54,661 weblogs being tracked for 886 users. Wow! I like this site because it shows what is being updated in real time. And you can see the whole community there. Plus there is a neat ie5 pane that you can…

Sage, Orange, and Clove Rotisserie Turkey BBQ Recipe It’s Thanksgiving Time, so it is time to try some new recipes, I’ve got a new gas grill. Never thought I’d cave on that, but now I can rotisserie, here’s a recipe I’ll adapt to the event. I’m doing a brined turkey with this, but the rub…

Using Blogrolling’s PHP option on your PHP enabled weblog. I’m converting to using PHP so that the blogrolling stuff can be read by google. This works on all the geekfishing.net related sites, but not for my current tongfamily.com since it doesn’t have PHP 🙁 If your blog supports PHP and allow_url_fopen you can call the…

Rss Readers. Another thing to study are RSS readers. Since all these blogs we now have generate RSS, it would be kind of nice to consume them as well.

lgf: the lowest of the low. A great site and also has a nice PHP script to show you dynamically where people are coming from to get to your site. I’ll slam into tongfamily, geekfishing, etc. soon.

hitormiss.org : Daily Crawl. Another incredibly cool cgi script thing that I found on Anita’s blog. This lets you know where you’ve been by the time that you visited. Blogrolling is great, but this is even cooler. This is basically blogrolling, but happens on your server, not in some meta-server. The most incredibly thing about…

Converting to Movable Type Just a note to folks, I’m converting this blog over to MovableType. I’m not going to be updating this as much over the next week before I do the full flip. If you want to see the upcoming blog, checkout New Tong Family. For a while I’ll run the posts in…

Random Thanksgiving Thoughts We all have much to be thankful for. My biggest this year is that I can sit and think with guys like Ludwig about what the next big thing is. Here are a couple of observations, just an outline, I’ll fill in later, but wanted to get thoughts down. The miracle of…