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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-something-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the communications manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets.
This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6476 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 21314 comments.
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Entries posted in Site Info
- I Know, I Know... - Posted on 08/28/13 @ 10:44 PM
- Looking for Prize Donations for the 2012 UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Pick 'em - Posted on 02/08/12 @ 04:52 PM
- Most Commented Entries - Posted on 01/30/12 @ 05:09 PM
- Back To Reality - Posted on 07/31/11 @ 04:13 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com/CentralOregonAthlete.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em - Posted on 02/28/11 @ 08:30 PM
- Still Looking For Prize Donations - Posted on 02/22/11 @ 02:36 PM
- Looking For Prize Donations For Our Annual NCAA Pick 'em - Posted on 02/02/11 @ 01:11 PM
- Almost Back Up And Running - Posted on 10/29/10 @ 07:31 AM
- Updating The Archives - Posted on 08/18/10 @ 05:22 PM
- What Did I Miss? - Posted on 07/18/10 @ 08:59 AM
- I Love Old-School Video Games - Posted on 07/08/10 @ 04:54 PM
- Reminders - Posted on 06/05/10 @ 08:21 PM
- UtterlyBoring.com In Tibet - Posted on 05/10/10 @ 04:12 PM
- Facebook Like Buttons with Dynamic URLs in PHP and JavaScript - Posted on 04/27/10 @ 12:52 PM
- Bend Blogs Now On Twitter - Posted on 04/06/10 @ 04:31 PM
- The Pick 'em Is Now (Officially) Over - Posted on 04/05/10 @ 11:17 PM
- The Pick 'em Is Over (Basically) - Posted on 04/03/10 @ 09:21 PM
- Bend Blogs is Now On Facebook - Posted on 03/30/10 @ 04:15 PM
- The Final Four Is Set - Posted on 03/28/10 @ 10:04 PM
- The Sweet Sixteen Is Over - Posted on 03/26/10 @ 09:55 PM
- Scoring Will Be Posted Tomorrow Morning - Posted on 03/25/10 @ 09:28 PM
- The First Weekend Of The Pick 'em Is Over - Posted on 03/21/10 @ 09:21 PM
- Back To Reality - Posted on 03/20/10 @ 08:29 PM
- I Never Saw This Coming - Posted on 03/19/10 @ 11:10 PM
- Nearly A Perfect First Day In The Pick 'em - Posted on 03/18/10 @ 11:03 PM
- Last Chance To Sign Up For The Pick 'em - Posted on 03/17/10 @ 05:06 PM
- The Tournament Field Has Been Set -- Fill Out Your Brackets and Win! - Posted on 03/14/10 @ 04:44 PM
- Reminders - Posted on 03/03/10 @ 11:19 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em (Fifth Annual, 2010 Edition) - Posted on 02/27/10 @ 12:53 PM
- NCAA Pick 'em Contest Coming Fast! - Posted on 02/26/10 @ 11:17 PM
- Looking For Prize Donations for The Annual Pick 'em - Posted on 01/27/10 @ 09:59 PM
- Why Are You Here? - Posted on 12/24/09 @ 07:10 PM
- Come Listen To Me Pretend That I Know What I'm Doing - Posted on 09/28/09 @ 01:00 PM
- I'm About To Break Something - Posted on 09/02/09 @ 05:09 PM
- And The Google Voice Invite Goes To... - Posted on 08/29/09 @ 10:13 AM
- OK, So I've Sort Of Embraced Twitter - Posted on 08/27/09 @ 12:44 PM
- Two-Time UtterlyBoring.com Pick 'em Loser At The Pool - Posted on 08/19/09 @ 05:03 PM
- Links For The Day - Posted on 06/08/09 @ 10:35 PM
- The 2009 Pick 'em is Officially Over - Posted on 04/06/09 @ 11:19 PM
- The UtterlyBoring.com Tournament Pick 'em Has A Winner! - Posted on 04/04/09 @ 10:58 PM
- The Final Four Is Set - Posted on 03/29/09 @ 05:23 PM
- Round 3 Is Over, And My Boss Might Win The Thing - Posted on 03/27/09 @ 11:22 PM
- The Guy That Eats A Lot Is Still Winning The Pick 'em - Posted on 03/26/09 @ 09:36 PM
- The First Weekend Of March Madness Is Over - Posted on 03/22/09 @ 11:58 PM
- Round 2 Day 1 Is Over - Posted on 03/21/09 @ 09:42 PM
- Round 1 Is Over - Posted on 03/20/09 @ 11:52 PM
- Pick 'em Day 1 Wrap Up - Posted on 03/19/09 @ 11:29 PM
- Last Chance To Sign Up For The Pick 'em - Posted on 03/18/09 @ 03:49 PM
- The NCAA Brackets Have Been Set - Posted on 03/15/09 @ 04:03 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em (2009 Edition) - Posted on 03/03/09 @ 11:36 PM
- Getting Organized For The NCAA Tourney Pick 'em, Looking For Prizes - Posted on 02/25/09 @ 12:15 PM
- BendBlogs.com Fixed, Server Almost Back To Normal - Posted on 02/05/09 @ 11:40 AM
- And Speaking Of Crazy Commenters... - Posted on 12/19/08 @ 09:39 PM
- Comments Are
Borked Fixed - Posted on 09/03/08 @ 10:31 PM
- Reader Survey: Links In New Window or Not? - Posted on 07/29/08 @ 11:07 PM
- My Poor Neglected Blog - Posted on 06/23/08 @ 05:12 PM
- Testing, 1, 2, 3 - Posted on 06/16/08 @ 07:35 AM
- New Web Hosts Found - Posted on 06/10/08 @ 11:03 PM
- UtterlyBoring.com at Wrigley Field - Posted on 05/12/08 @ 10:18 AM
- The NCAA Tournament Is Over - Posted on 04/07/08 @ 10:58 PM
- Eggar Wins The UtterlyBoring.com '08 NCAA Pick 'em - Posted on 04/05/08 @ 09:40 PM
- For The First Time Ever, Four Number One Seeds in the Final Four - Posted on 03/30/08 @ 09:51 PM
- Yahoo!'s Bonkered - Posted on 03/29/08 @ 09:00 PM
- Round 3 Is Over... - Posted on 03/28/08 @ 11:38 PM
- NCAA Pick 'em Round 3 Day 1 - Posted on 03/27/08 @ 09:59 PM
- The First Weekend Is Over... - Posted on 03/23/08 @ 08:32 PM
- NCAA Tournament Pick 'em Round 2 Day 1 Scoring - Posted on 03/22/08 @ 09:36 PM
- NCAA Tournament Pick 'em Day 2 Results - Posted on 03/21/08 @ 11:04 PM
- Tournament Pick 'em Day 1 Results - Posted on 03/20/08 @ 09:48 PM
- Let's Get Ready To Rumble! - Posted on 03/20/08 @ 09:49 AM
- Last Chance To Fill Out Your NCAA Bracket - Posted on 03/19/08 @ 10:19 AM
- Are You In? - Posted on 03/11/08 @ 11:10 PM
- Welcome Bulletin Readers! - Posted on 03/08/08 @ 11:10 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em (2008 Edition) - Posted on 03/03/08 @ 04:05 PM
- Getting Organized For March Madness - Posted on 02/20/08 @ 10:16 AM
- UtterlyBoring.com and BendBlogs.com Site Downtime Tonight - Posted on 02/02/08 @ 01:02 PM
- Well Lookie There... - Posted on 11/08/07 @ 02:25 PM
- Most Commented On Entries - Posted on 09/10/07 @ 10:49 PM
- If You Were Having A Hard Time Getting To This Site This Weekend... - Posted on 08/26/07 @ 11:20 PM
- There Just Needs To Be An Extra 12 Hours In A Day - Posted on 08/16/07 @ 11:30 PM
- Mailing List Borked - Posted on 08/15/07 @ 12:43 PM
- Major BendBlogs.com Cleanup - Posted on 07/17/07 @ 11:10 PM
- Change Of RSS Feed Address - Posted on 07/08/07 @ 11:27 PM
- Welcome Oregonian Readers - Posted on 06/17/07 @ 10:35 PM
- It's A Common Misspelling, Sadly - Posted on 06/17/07 @ 04:42 PM
- Are Your Comments Posting Slow In MovableType? - Posted on 05/20/07 @ 09:27 AM
- goldenglove7624, Where Are You? - Posted on 04/10/07 @ 04:28 PM
- Florida Wins, and Scott's Mad Dribblerz Wins The '07 Pick 'Em - Posted on 04/03/07 @ 10:15 AM
- Having Trouble Getting My Daily Posts Via E-mail? - Posted on 04/01/07 @ 02:31 PM
- It All Comes Down To The Last Game - Posted on 03/31/07 @ 11:40 PM
- Round Four Is Over - Posted on 03/25/07 @ 11:14 PM
- Round Four, Day One Is Over - Posted on 03/24/07 @ 10:43 PM
- Round Three's Over... - Posted on 03/23/07 @ 10:55 PM
- I Officially Cannot Win The Pick 'em - Posted on 03/22/07 @ 11:13 PM
- Round Two, Day One Updates - Posted on 03/17/07 @ 09:33 PM
- Round One's Over - Posted on 03/16/07 @ 11:07 PM
- Tourney Pick 'em Day 1 Score Update - Posted on 03/15/07 @ 10:37 PM
- Last Chance To Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pool - Posted on 03/14/07 @ 05:35 PM
- The Tournament Field's Been Set... - Posted on 03/11/07 @ 09:44 PM
- I've Been Banned In China - Posted on 03/06/07 @ 02:37 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em (2007 Edition) - Posted on 03/04/07 @ 11:56 AM
- NewsGator Test Post - Posted on 12/13/06 @ 05:10 PM
- Comment Spammers Are Evil Bastards - Posted on 12/07/06 @ 04:35 PM
- Most Commented On Entries - Posted on 12/05/06 @ 05:13 PM
- Finally Got Around To Editing My Blogroll - Posted on 11/16/06 @ 10:24 AM
- Comment Spam Weirdness - Posted on 10/05/06 @ 11:36 AM
- Another Movable Type Spam Prevention Method - Posted on 09/27/06 @ 01:02 PM
- I've Been Hit By Digg.com - Posted on 07/01/06 @ 09:17 PM
- Running Google Analytics - Posted on 04/06/06 @ 11:34 PM
- It's (Almost) Official - Posted on 04/02/06 @ 10:56 AM
- You Know What's Sad? - Posted on 03/30/06 @ 04:06 PM
- Well That Sucked - Posted on 03/27/06 @ 09:46 AM
- What A Difference 48 Hours Makes - Posted on 03/19/06 @ 10:29 PM
- Round One Is Over - Posted on 03/17/06 @ 11:33 PM
- Was Anybody At AdFed's AdBite Today? - Posted on 03/16/06 @ 02:33 PM
- 24 Hours Left To Make Your Picks - Posted on 03/15/06 @ 09:35 AM
- Update On NCAA Tournament Pick 'em: Now With Prizes! - Posted on 03/14/06 @ 11:54 AM
- How Much Is Your Blog Worth? - Posted on 03/13/06 @ 02:27 PM
- Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick 'em - Posted on 03/13/06 @ 07:33 AM
- BendBlogs Feed Hosed - Posted on 03/02/06 @ 05:32 PM
- An All New BendBlogs.com - Posted on 02/13/06 @ 11:42 PM
- Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! - Posted on 02/07/06 @ 11:24 PM
- There's Hope After All - Posted on 02/06/06 @ 07:17 AM
- Sorry Mailing List Readers - Posted on 01/21/06 @ 07:52 AM
- Server Move Coming, Comments Off - Posted on 01/18/06 @ 12:38 PM
- Getting Banned By Google Sucks - Posted on 01/15/06 @ 06:00 PM
- Experimenting With Yahoo Publisher Ads - Posted on 01/05/06 @ 01:32 PM
- Input Needed On Community Portal Software Packages - Posted on 12/13/05 @ 06:01 PM
- Mailing List Fixed - Posted on 12/06/05 @ 09:41 PM
- Traffic Update - Posted on 12/05/05 @ 05:32 PM
- Welcome Spiegel.de Readers - Posted on 12/01/05 @ 09:16 AM
- We're Back - Posted on 11/20/05 @ 11:12 PM
- Comments Off, Server Move Coming - Posted on 10/23/05 @ 11:04 AM
- 7000th Comment Posted - Posted on 10/15/05 @ 07:54 AM
- DNS Troubles - Posted on 10/06/05 @ 08:23 AM
- Mailing List Broken - Posted on 10/02/05 @ 04:35 PM
- Turning Off My E-mail Form - Posted on 09/15/05 @ 10:22 PM
- UtterlyBoring.com Gets New York Times Mention thanks to AOL Idiots - Posted on 09/13/05 @ 04:35 PM
- Movable Type 3.2 Installed - Posted on 08/28/05 @ 04:35 PM
- My First Legal Threat - Posted on 08/04/05 @ 03:08 PM
- I'm Taking A Vacation - Posted on 07/19/05 @ 04:53 PM
- Annoying Ads Turned Off - Posted on 06/17/05 @ 08:06 AM
- I've Been Mentioned In A Book - Posted on 05/29/05 @ 12:17 PM
- Comment Spammers Need To Die - Posted on 05/03/05 @ 04:35 PM
- Good Lord That's Ugly - Posted on 05/03/05 @ 10:56 AM
- Random Google Results - Posted on 05/03/05 @ 10:18 AM
- My Life Is Now Complete - Posted on 05/03/05 @ 10:09 AM
- Archive Page Works Again - Posted on 04/04/05 @ 09:57 PM
- Why The Huge Link Dump? - Posted on 03/29/05 @ 01:13 PM
- Experimenting With Ads - Posted on 03/27/05 @ 02:14 PM
- Server Move Finished - Posted on 03/01/05 @ 07:09 AM
- Server Move Coming Soon - Posted on 02/28/05 @ 10:07 PM
- Welcome Blues News Readers - Posted on 02/28/05 @ 09:54 AM
- Blogrolling No More - Posted on 02/27/05 @ 12:27 PM
- For Those Of You On My Mailing List - Posted on 02/23/05 @ 09:07 AM
- Google Ads Experiment - Posted on 02/17/05 @ 04:51 PM
- Offline Through The Weekend - Posted on 01/13/05 @ 05:01 PM
- Welcome Independent (UK) Readers - Posted on 12/28/04 @ 06:55 PM
- MovableType 3.14 Released - Posted on 12/20/04 @ 10:56 PM
- I've Given Up On The MovableType Forums - Posted on 12/16/04 @ 12:04 PM
- Two Years Ago Today - Posted on 11/30/04 @ 04:05 PM
- Cleaning House - Posted on 11/15/04 @ 07:07 AM
- WYSIWYG Editing for MovableType - Posted on 11/08/04 @ 10:21 PM
- I Promise - Posted on 10/31/04 @ 05:59 PM
- Yes, I know... - Posted on 10/13/04 @ 05:21 PM
- Honey, I'm Home - Posted on 09/26/04 @ 09:24 PM
- Heading Out For A Vacation - Posted on 09/22/04 @ 04:25 PM
- <church lady>Well isn't that special... - Posted on 09/21/04 @ 05:16 PM
- If You Can Read This, It Worked - Posted on 09/20/04 @ 11:24 PM
- People Are Dumb - Posted on 08/30/04 @ 11:41 AM
- World Domination - Posted on 08/27/04 @ 08:47 PM
- Random Search Referrals - Posted on 08/17/04 @ 01:37 PM
- I'm Getting Porn Traffic - Posted on 08/09/04 @ 12:00 PM
- My New 404 Error Page - Posted on 07/23/04 @ 09:34 PM
- Slow Blogging - Posted on 07/22/04 @ 10:21 AM
- Sorry About The Downtime - Posted on 07/20/04 @ 03:00 PM
- Finally Got Around To It - Posted on 07/07/04 @ 07:23 AM
- Gmail Contest Winners - Posted on 06/27/04 @ 12:57 PM
- Gmail Contest Deadline Coming Up - Posted on 06/26/04 @ 08:36 PM
- Gmail Invite "Jeopardy" Contest - Posted on 06/23/04 @ 12:08 PM
- Mailing List Broken, Now Fixed - Posted on 05/20/04 @ 10:15 AM
- Movable Type 3.0 Beta - Posted on 04/21/04 @ 07:21 AM
- Happy Birthday Barney! - Posted on 04/02/04 @ 08:47 PM
- Yes, I'm here - Posted on 03/25/04 @ 09:51 AM
- You've got 30 Minutes to Make Your Picks - Posted on 03/18/04 @ 08:52 AM
- Testing, 1, 2, 3... - Posted on 03/08/04 @ 10:33 AM
- Moving to New Host - Posted on 03/05/04 @ 08:10 PM
- "Do you send out Free Porn?" - Posted on 03/04/04 @ 01:38 PM
- Help Save This Site - Posted on 03/04/04 @ 10:06 AM
- Shopping for a Web Host - Posted on 02/23/04 @ 04:33 PM
- UtterlyBoring.com To-Do List - Posted on 01/28/04 @ 10:43 PM
- This is the last straw for AOLers - Posted on 01/20/04 @ 06:17 PM
- Site slowness - Posted on 01/02/04 @ 08:54 AM
- Damn AOL - Posted on 01/01/04 @ 11:29 AM
- Damn comment spammers and browser hi-jackers - Posted on 12/30/03 @ 07:35 PM
- Thing may break for a bit - Posted on 12/22/03 @ 05:27 PM
- My lifetime goal has been met - Posted on 12/16/03 @ 02:53 PM
- Buy UtterlyBoring.com stuff... Please :-) - Posted on 12/14/03 @ 05:07 PM
- Site Downtime - Posted on 12/14/03 @ 12:22 PM
- Blogging down time for a few days - Posted on 12/02/03 @ 11:24 PM
- Michael Jackson brings out the best in people - Posted on 11/22/03 @ 10:10 AM
- I reserve the right to bill content spammers - Posted on 11/12/03 @ 10:30 AM
- OK, spam solutions going in place soon - Posted on 11/04/03 @ 10:27 PM
- Everybody's getting MT Comment Spam - Posted on 10/13/03 @ 05:22 PM
- Why I started blocking external image linking - Posted on 10/09/03 @ 11:40 AM
- OK, the comment spam is starting to get to me - Posted on 10/05/03 @ 03:34 PM
- One weekend a month my ass -- a followup - Posted on 09/30/03 @ 09:46 AM
- This disturbs me... - Posted on 09/23/03 @ 03:56 PM
- Sorry about the site slowness - Posted on 09/09/03 @ 05:40 PM
- The comments keep getting weirder and weirder - Posted on 09/08/03 @ 03:52 PM
- Holy Crap, I got a Bloglet update! - Posted on 09/01/03 @ 03:25 PM
- Any solutions to Bloglet problems? - Posted on 08/19/03 @ 09:01 AM
- Listing On Blogstreet - Posted on 08/18/03 @ 01:46 PM
- .htaccess problems - Posted on 08/06/03 @ 04:35 PM
- I hate it when people steal my bandwidth - Posted on 07/22/03 @ 02:05 PM
- New on the Blogroll - Posted on 06/27/03 @ 06:15 PM
- Utterly Boring's Blogshare value at $36,000 - Posted on 06/23/03 @ 02:15 PM
- Anybody personally know Eminem? - Posted on 06/22/03 @ 09:38 AM
- Now have this blog read to you! - Posted on 06/19/03 @ 06:03 PM
- It's official: I'm a MovableType Supporter - Posted on 06/14/03 @ 06:59 AM
- Comments are slow -- but solutions are on the way - UPDATE: Comments and site are quicker now - Posted on 06/06/03 @ 05:13 PM
- UtterlyBoring's Blogshares Value is over $10,000! - Posted on 05/30/03 @ 04:23 PM
- OK, I'm a dork - Posted on 05/29/03 @ 10:04 PM
- How are they finding UtterlyBoring.com on Google - Part III - Posted on 05/16/03 @ 11:33 PM
- OregonLive.com Linking to UtterlyBoring.com - Posted on 05/11/03 @ 05:54 PM
- How do folks find this site, Part II - Posted on 05/06/03 @ 11:27 PM
- Welcome LangaList Readers! - Posted on 05/05/03 @ 11:59 AM
- I'm back :) - Posted on 05/02/03 @ 04:49 PM
- No blogging this weekend - and slim pickings for a week or two - Posted on 04/25/03 @ 01:41 PM
- Comments are slow - Posted on 04/24/03 @ 09:57 AM
- Site moving to new server - Posted on 03/21/03 @ 05:56 PM
- UtterlyBoring.com is a reality - Posted on 03/09/03 @ 05:44 PM
- Re-doing the site -- utterlyboring.com coming soon - Posted on 03/08/03 @ 03:46 PM
- Gregg kicked my butt ... almost - Posted on 03/03/03 @ 01:22 PM
- MovableJive Text Formatting - Posted on 02/20/03 @ 01:03 PM
- About This Site - Posted on 02/01/03 @ 11:24 AM
- Is this blog hot or not? - Posted on 01/20/03 @ 12:37 PM
- New Site Features - Posted on 01/05/03 @ 12:58 PM
- Site Maintenence - Posted on 01/04/03 @ 04:35 PM
- Donate to this Site - Posted on 12/31/02 @ 10:17 AM
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