I’m in Hawaii this week. Blog posts will be intermittent, if at all.

Probably I’m the only person here taking pictures of the buses.

Honolulu. Photo by John Fowler on flickr.
Technically there are probably some buses in this picture somewhere.

The BeyondDC home page has been long overdue for some housekeeping. I’ve moved things around a little bit, taken out some obsolete links, and rethought the navigation bar at the top of the page (nobody ever used that anyway). You may continue to see additional minor changes in the coming days.

The winter solstice came and went at 6:12 am this morning. Shockingly, the world didn’t end.

I’ll be on holiday until a few days into the new year, so this is probably the last blog post of 2012. I’ll continue to tweet through the holiday, so see you there.

DOOM!.

I’ve installed a new commenting system, using the Disqus platform. I’ve noticed that it doesn’t update the number of comments that have been made on a post right away, but other than that it seems to work fairly well, which is a big improvement from the not working at all status of comments for the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately the old comments are lost.

The commenting problem was actually only the most visible aspect of a whole series of back-office technical problems that had to be worked out, but hopefully everything is ship shape now. Hopefully.

The comment system BeyondDC uses is down. It will be a few days before I fix it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I was interviewed by WAMU radio for a piece reporting on Arlington’s green painted bike lanes. The piece originally aired on Saturday, but you can hear it online via WAMU’s website at Arlington Bike Lanes Going Green, Literally.

Albany skyline. Photo by Daniel Langer on flickr.

I’ll be on vacation from August 19-26, in upstate New York. Although I’m not actually spending my vacation in Albany, odds are I’ll be there at least one day. Any suggestions for what to see? My previous experience there consists of a layover and transfer at the Rensselaer Amtrak station.

There won’t be any blog posts here on BeyondDC while I’m gone. I will tweet periodically though.

Meet Market

In the mean time, drop by the DC Meet Market at 15th and P on Saturday the 18, where I’ll be manning a booth for my wife’s shop, selling urbanist-, DC-, and geography- themed paper goods.

Comments on BeyondDC posts have been disabled since June 22, due to a technical issue. They are now back (although obviously there haven’t been any since then).

Most of the posts on BeyondDC are about transportation. Stupidly, these have always been clumped together under a single broad transportation tag.

I’m now going through the 700-some posts tagged with transportation and adding new mode-specific tags, so readers will be able to pull up all posts about streetcars, or bike issues, or whatever.

So far I’ve added mode tags to posts through late 2010. It’ll take a while to finish.

BeyondDC is very slow today. I’m not completely sure why, but one of the reasons appears to be that the comment system isn’t working right. Because of this, comments are temporarily disabled. Sorry for any inconvenience.