Ken Martin’s Blog

Back about the time when the KSTP-TV story which concerning the Maplewood City Council aired, I became more and more curious about the way TV news is done. I sent the following note to the reporter of that story (after having exchanged emails once before on the topic). It went unanswered. But given that the Minnesota [...]

In one of her comments here on my site, Maplewood Mayor Diana Longrie noted that the fact the her husband had a restraining order issued against him was something that had been picked up on in various news stories in the past. Here’s an example mention from the Pioneer Press [by Steve Smith, posted on [...]

There’s a local radio personality named Joe Soucheray, who acts as the “mayor” of a mythical town called Garage Logic. Friday afternoon he had some discussion concerning the blogger who fed illicitly gained information to the Amy Klobuchar (DFL) campaign for the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton. He was bothered by the [...]

Here is a PDF of the Syntax Synthesis worksheet I made based on Pete’s, but a little more spacious. :)

Just a quick post to get this class audio up. We finished up on articles. Eighteen wonderful ways to say “the”. OK, not exactly, but kinda. Our 1 Thessalonians work was a bit of a struggle. Our vocabulary isn’t there yet. Well, at least mine’s not. I didn’t ace the test, but almost. And I did [...]

Four year old Henry is deeply, excitedly impressed with the Coyote’s various inventions. He wants to explain each one to me. And each time the Coyote gets it, he winces and says “ouch!”

Yet more about the Maplewood City Council I’ve been blissfully unaware of the local happenings concerning the whole silliness over there, but I did peruse the neighborhood paper today which carried a Katy Zillmer story - Once a city grievance, now a federal lawsuit. As I understand the story, primarily from East Side Review coverage - [...]

All of them. They piled into the minivan for their various Wednesday night church activities. I offered my benedictions and walked into the house, letting out a cheer that made Helen and Kenny and Bunny the bunny all jump. The whole house to myself. The plan is to finish my Greek study. That’s always been the habit [...]

Imagine a fresh install of MySQL, (entropy.ch) PHP, and phpMyAdmin which didn’t work. MySQL is running in Terminal just fine. PHP is cranking along nicely. But phpMyAdmin steadfastly refused to run: Probably reason of this is that you did not create configuration file. You might want to use setup script to create one. [...]

I’m almost caught up on sleep. I still haven’t completely unpacked from Phoenix, but I’m close. My Greek work is progressing well. Work is an enjoyable challenge. Teaching Sunday School has gone well. The kids have retained most of their appendages. But, the nicest thing this week was being reminded that thirteen years ago this week [...]