14, 22, 27, 30, 32, PB 31

Those are the numbers I need to appear for the Powerball drawing on July 15th so I can carry out my dream of buying Willinger’s Golf Club and the surrounding land. Rumor has it that they are planning to build houses on that course, along with converting the par-4 eleventh hole to a par-3 (creating a par 71 course). If it were my course, that’s not exactly what I’d do. (more…)

Based on Dara Moskowitz’s advice (my favorite local food critic), we decided to pay a lunch visit today to Pop’s Family Caf?© on the East Side of St. Paul. The onion rings were incredible and the fried chicken with homemade mashed potatoes and gravy were a delicious, guilty treat. Easy to get to off of I-94 in a beautiful older building with a great view of downtown St. Paul. Officially added to the lunch rotation…DK

Yesterday I was notified by our server colocation provider (the excellent digital.forest in Seattle) that one of our mail servers was being used to send junk mail. We currently use the mail server included with Mac OS X Server, which is based on Postfix. I have been testing an alternative solution called ECM on a different server and I was hoping it was this test setup that had been compromised. Unfortunately, it was our main production box. (more…)

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining noted golf course architect Garrett Gill at his newest creation–The Meadows at Mystic Lake. Director of Golf Greg McKush and Course Superintendent Pete Nolan were scheduled to join us, but had to drop out before the round started (pictured above in center shot - McKush, Nolan and Gill).

I took along my camera and a selection of shots can be viewed by clicking the montage above. I noticed afterwards that my Nikon D70 is suffering from dust bunnies, so some of the shots have noticable artifacts in them that I need to correct in Photoshop.

Garrett has designed a number of my south metro favorites, including Willinger’s and Legends Club. He has another hit with The Meadows and I told him he needs to start a south metro “Garrett Gill Golf Trail” to promote these great courses. (more…)