TheBishop.Net

Hacked
June 25, 2008

Maintaining an online presence is an ongoing task, and I haven't paid much attention to my websites over the last few years. As a reward, I got hacked due to a security vulnerability in one of the software packages I use on TheBishop.Net, and I have had to take several parts of the site offline. Everything that is up should work, and should not longer be directing visitors to some site in Russia, but let me know if you see anything funny.

Pictures, pictures, pictures
March 05, 2006

I got a new digital camera for Christmas, I went and visited family over the Christmas, and since then I have been to several geek conferences. The result? A hard drive overflowing with picture files. Well, this weekend I finally bit the bullet and spent hours reviewing, filing, cropping, removing red-eyes and captioning them. I have posted a whole bunch of pictures both on TheBishop.net's photo gallery and to my account on Flickr, which some family folks have discovered. As always, family photos need a login (or in Flickr you need me to add you as family or friend). If you don't have a login to TheBishop.net family photo gallery, or you aren't listed as family or friend in Flickr, just drop me an email and I will take care of it. All pix are on both Flickr and TheBishop.net, so just choose your favorite interface.

Enjoy!

Madeleine Kahn's new book published
November 23, 2005

Madeleine Kahn's new book, Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? Teaching and Learning at a Women's College, is finally out in paperback. You can buy it at Amazon, directly from the publisher, or from your local bookstore. I've created a web site for Madeleine Kahn (the author), where you can read reviews of the book, see where her book tour will take her next, or peek at some of the essays she has been working on since she wrote Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? Teaching and Learning at a Women's College.

Susan Ito, a former student of Madeleine's, put on a great book party as part of her Shepherd's Canyon Writers series to celebrate the paperback publication. I was there, and managed to get a few pictures of Madeleine Kahn giving her book talk. There are more pictures available to family members at TheBishop.Net photogallery.

Congratulations Madeleine!

November 2 is coming up soon: please help get out the vote
October 20, 2004

There are lots of different ways to help:

Like clothes? Buy a T-shirt that encourges others to vote.

Like to call people? Use non-partisan VoterCall.Org's website to call a newly registered voter and encorage him or her to vote for the first time.

Like technology? Volunteer for Tech Watch to make sure that the votes are counted accurately.

Religious? Use the Vote All Your Values website to find voters to call and see if they need help getting to the polls.

Like to travel? Sign up with MoveOn PAC to go to a swing state and drive voters to the polls.

Don't see anything you like? Want to do something else? See the list at Volunteer Match.

But pick something and do it. Democracy is more that voting, it is also acting.

2004 How Berkeley Can You Be Parade photos posted
September 26, 2004

I've finally finished posting my pictures of the 2004 How Berkeley Can You Be Parade.



One of the things that makes Berkeley such a wonderful place to live is the mix of people who inhabit it. The annual How Berkeley Can You Be parade is one of my favorite Berkeley events, because it reflects the Berkeley mix so well -- the creative artists, the earnest citizens, and the zanies. This year's parade theme was alternative locomotion, and, helped by its status as the end point of the West Coast Art Car Fest, organized by Berkeley resident Harrod Blank, the parade delivered. While there wasn't a single most popular car, like last year's Sashimi Tabernacle Choir car, there were lots of great electric cars, bicycles, scooters, and many wonderful but uncategorizable entries.

Unsuprisingly, given the timing and locale, politics was the unofficial theme of the parade. This year's crowd pleaser wasn't a car, it was the "Billionaires for Bush" contingent, resplendent in their tuxedos and evening gowns. The anti-circumcision protesters weren't nearly as popular, but they did have the best poster. Befitting our small town status, the causes with the most marchers were the local causes, more funding for our public libraries and public schools. All in all, a great event.

Summer 2004 photos up
August 31, 2004

A quintessential Berkeley kid experience - climbing the whale at the Lawrence Hall of Science in August, in the fog, shivering in sweatshirts.

For TheBishop.Net friends and family members, I've put up my photos from our summer visitors, our trip back East, and Grandpa's birthday. Enjoy.

For non-family members there isn't much that's new, other than a few more Only in Berkeley photos. Don't worry, the "How Berkeley Can You Be" parade is coming up shortly, that always generates some fun photos.

Cleaning up
August 29, 2004

It's amazing how a web site can slowly rot. I looked at my useful links page the other day and noticed that half the links were dead, and that most of the links that I use on a daily basis weren't there. So I've updated the page.

I also noted almost no one has made any comments on TheBishop.Net bulletin boards or on the little comment links on this page. Since the comment links require loading Javascript from Haloscan, they slow down the loading of the home page. The bulletin boards attract unsavory characters trying to put links to pages where they are selling their trash, and I have to periodically go through and clean out their filth.

It doesn't seem worth it. So I've removed the comment and bulletin board functionality. If you have a comment, I'd still love to hear from you. I just ask that you use my contact form or send me an email.

Tim Bishop gets his own professional site
June 09, 2004

After a VC friend pointed out to me that having Geodog and my political rants as the first thing that pops up in a Google search for Tim Bishop might not convey the most professional image, I put together a professional biography / resume website that I can point people towards, www.timbishop.com. Now at least people researching me on the web can see both sides of me, the political and the professional. If anyone has any feedback or comments on the Tim Bishop site, they would be greatly appreciated. I know I need a better picture :-).

I haven't been able to check the site out with a Mac, so I would especially appreciate word whether it looks ok on a Mac or not.

Pictures, pictures, and more pictures.
April 25, 2004

I've been taking a lot of pictures recently, and I've spent the last few weeks sorting through them and getting some of them up onto the website. For the family, on the password protected part of the site I've put up photos of our trip to the mountains and to the library, the spring birthday party, and some great photos of our expedition to Cal Day.

For the amusement of the general public, I put up some Cal Day photos, photos from the 2004 Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, and a collection of Only in Berkeley photos.

Enjoy, and if you can, I'd appreciate it if you sent me a comment. Thanks.

The Bishop.Net turns blue
April 18, 2004

You may have noticed that TheBishop.Net has become both a little darker and a little more colorful. I had some comments to the effect that the home page looked too cluttered, and that it was too hard to find things. I was dissatisfied with the information architecture of the site, and wanted to provide a second level of navigation elements so that I could have sub-pages in places like the news section. So I started a re-design, but as is the nature of such things, I have only had time to implement it on about 2/3rds of the site. As is painfully obvious, I am not a graphic designer, but I hope that the redesign does make it easier to find your way around the site. As always, I am very interested in your comments. I also added a third, and hopefully even easier way to make comments.

Update: Later removed comments feature.

Photos of oldest niece from second oldest sister
April 11, 2004

Second oldest sister put some beautiful photos of her daughter up on TheBishop.Net. Isn't it amazing how fast they grow up?

Also, because I was running out of disk space on this server, I had to move some of the older photos off this server. If you want to see some of the older photos, just send me an email and I'll send you a URL.