2278.At first it was just us in PDX and Salem. Then they made the rest of the northwest corner of Oregon dial 10. The fact that I still live in the 503 is something of a consolation, of course. The three-quarters of the state of Oregon in the 541...

2277.The various designs of city transit railmaps that can be found in the USA and globally are beguiling works of abstract art, the designs of which seem driven in the main by the famous design of the London Underground, with its simplified and...

2276."H&J's" are layout-speak for "hyphenation and justification", and they are the bedrock to successful text-flow in your layout application, be they QuarkXPress, InDesign, Scribus, or whatever. Modern type and more advanced layout programs seem to...

2275.Finally got through Stephen King's latest event, the brobdingnagian Under The Dome. I'm not a Stephen King fan, really. At least I don't consider myself one. I have huge respect for his talent, and I'd say I'm a fan of certain stories of his:...

2274.MSNBC: We're going to be hit by a storm – unless we don't, of course: Snow accumulation in metro Portland was doubtful on Saturday, according to KGW First Alert Storm Team, though "a chance of weather" remained, with freezing rain still in the...