The Blog of Adam Patten

I will be moving soon and I need to find a place to live in PB so I’ve been apartment hunting. Today I went looking for a place with my future roommate and we found a decent place that is a little beat up. I figured with with some paint, a new carpet and a little TLC could be a great place. The Realtor lady assured us that Cal-Prop, the property management company, would be fixing it up. I thought it would be good to move into a place with all these new things, but the future roomy said she heard that Cal-Prop can be shady and usually keeps your whole security deposit when you move out. I didn’t like the sound of that! I understand that. I understand there are going to be times when tenants trash their places, especially in PB, and property management will keep some or most of the deposit, but not the whole deposit all the time. I figured I would check into the claims of Cal-Prop being a bad property manager when I got home, and it looks like they are indeed shady. I only found three different sites reviewing Cal-Prop, but none of them were good. Those bad reviews were enough for me to skip this place and keep looking, I’d rather save myself from headaches that I don’t need. Anyone else have a bad experience with Cal-Prop?

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Recently I have been playing around with MediaWiki, and I must say the whole idea of a wiki is really exciting to me. Obviously Wikis are nothing new, millions of people use Wikipedia everyday including myself. I never contributed to Wikipedia so I was never a part of the community and did not have a full understanding of how powerful a wiki can be. I must say at the early stages of using MediaWiki I’m really excited to be working with a wiki on a regular basis. Stripping away all the bells and whistles of tradition website and delivering quality content for everyone by everyone is really what the web is all about, and wikis do a great job at that. It is exciting to see non web geeks contributing and sharing information that would never make its way out in the open if it weren’t for software like wikis. Part of the whole reason I enjoy working on the web is the community of people who openly share information and are willing to help people they have never met and it’s nice to see non geeks around me entering the community as well. Just wanted to share what is exciting me lately and if you haven’t contributed to a wiki yet I suggest you go out and do it. There are plenty to choose from include the ever popular, Wikipedia.

While doing some hunting around for information on wikis I came across these funny pictures from Flickr that you may enjoy.

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Kind of off topic but hey its my blog and I think this is worth sharing. If The Miniature Earth doesn’t make you appreciate your life, I don’t know what will.

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