Lower Decatur Street, New Orleans

There’s an interesting interview with Harry Anderson in the New York Times. He lets you look behind the curtain to see his reasons for leaving New Orleans, and on his future in Asheville,NC.

Good luck Harry and Elizibeth, we’ll miss you.
Read the article at the New York Times.

UPDATE: It has come to our attention that you need to register to read the article. BugMeNot.com has a large database of working login/passwords for annoying sites like this.

While putting the together the interactive map for the site it came to my attention that there are a whole bunch of intentionally open wireless access points. I’d be willing to bet that there are more here in these few blocks than any other part of the city. So, somebody has to say it.

“Lower Decatur Street is New Orleans’ WiFi Hotspot!”

Here’s the current list:

• Cafe Envie - 1241 Decatur Street
• Coop’s Place - 1109 Decatur Street
• J.C. Grocery Deli - 65 French Market Place
• Mojo Lounge & Cafe - 1140 Decatur Street
• Turtle Bay - 1119 Decatur Street
• Whirling Dervish - 1135 Decatur Street

Most of the access points listed are usable in neighboring establishments.

Happy Surfing.

UPDATE: Added the Whirling Dervish to the list. Thanks, Cian

UPDATE: Removed Sarafina’s  (This should get moved to a page, instead of being in a post, so it’s always on the sidebar)

Ok people, while there haven’t been many posts lately, the site has been getting some TLC. Most of it is behind the scenes stuff that I’d like to share with you now.

• Header images now use the rotator script to display a random image with each page. There are several new header images to rotate. Photo submissions are welcome.
• We have a fancy new favorites/shortcut icon . It’s from a photo of the Decatur Street sign.
• Smart Update pinger plugin installed, so only new articles will ping the blogosphere.
• There is a fancy Google Map embedded in an iframe using the EzStatic plugin. WiFi, Streetcar stops, and nearby Points of Interest are listed.
• Mobile users can get their fix here via the WordPress Mobile plugin.
• Fixed a bug with PHP5 and the wp-cache plugin. Pages should load much faster.
• Edited some templates so that the author’s name is shown. More authors coming soon.
• Installed and configured the wpPHPMailer plugin, so that people actually get the password when they register. Our webhost has disabled the php mail() function so this is a good plugin.
• Uploaded the Obfuscate E-mail plugin, which makes it almost impossible for bots to grab our email addresses and leaves them human readable and with working mailto: links.
• There is a shiny new “Contact Us” page with scrambled email addresses.
• Added the FeedBurner plugin so that nifty RSS feed stats are generated. Loving the stats.