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Today, RalCon Fills a Six Pack of Blogging History
We’ve made it to six, SIX years of blogging. Let me get up and dance real quick……….. I really have no interesting story about how this website was started. I was bored at work one day and started blogging. It just stuck and here we are. What can you expect from this blog in the [...]
Municipography, Downtown Retail
Municipography is a summary of current issues going through the Raleigh City Council and other municipal departments in the city. The point is to try to deliver any video, photos, and text associated with the discussions happening at City Hall or elsewhere. Since this is a downtown Raleigh blog, the focus is on the center [...]
What A Destination Park on the Dix Campus Means to Downtown
There was a lot of news last week on the future of the Dorothea Dix campus, located southwest of downtown, and how our state governor is making moves to turn it into a destination park. The controversy here is how best to use the 306 acres of undeveloped, state-owned land. Park land, sell it off, [...]
New Blog Design For Your Viewing Pleasure
I’ve completed transitioning the blog to an entirely new design. Long-time readers may recognize layout similarities between this new design and the old but there are a lot of new elements especially under the hood. I started to work on updating the old WordPress theme that I was using but after some tweaks and frustration, [...]
Raleigh Musings, A New Banner, and Life
Another week, another disappointment. Am I disappointed with downtown Raleigh? Absolutely not. I hope everyone has had the opportunity to just be outside and to walk around these days. The trees are practically full now and the warm breezes are refreshing. Even with that going on, I’m disappointed with the amount of blogging I’ve done [...]
Patting Myself On The Back Day, 5 Years of RalCon
Five years and going strong.
RalCon Down For A Few Weeks
After about a year of planning, the time has come for a long vacation. I’ll be in Australia for the next couple of weeks so posts will be on hold for a bit. This is where guest writers could come in handy. Maybe one day.
Pic of the Year
The Triangle Business Journal reports that Red Hat is moving into the Progress Energy building at 100 East Davie Street. More at: Red Hat to move HQ to Progress Energy building via TBJ
