16 Mar Let Boca Raton Know What’s Open & Closed
4boca.com is offering local businesses an exclusive, free way to easily inform the local community. Is your business open or closed? What are the adjusted hours? What special information do you have for customers? All the other things customers need to know: phone, address, email, a map etc. For example:...
13 Mar Practicing Social Distancing
NOTE: This article contains no rumors or unfounded claims. Hey! We're doing this coronavirus thing now apparently. If we listen to public health authorities that means practicing "social distancing". Social distancing, in the most basic and immediate sense means staying away from other people. It means limiting how much you travel and how much you socialize face to face. When it's necessary to go out for whatever reason, social distancing means keeping a set distance away from other people.
08 Mar Move Classes Online ASAP – Debate Whether It’s An Over-Reaction Later
NOTE: Updated last on 3/13 - School is now closed until March 27th. My opinion is that classes should not be held while all signs point to the emerging coronavirus pandemic growing around the world and our area not being spared from it. I feel strongly...
05 Mar A Low Tech Rocket Stove Might Keep YOU Out of the Propane Lines
Rocket stoves allow powerful, focused fire to be created using only a small amount of fuel. Using twigs, bark, leaves, cardboard or small sticks, a fire can be sustained that's strong enough to boil a large pot of water. Many low tech designs for rocket stoves exist, but probably the simplest and cheapest involves common cinder blocks. In the aftermath of a natural disaster, like a hurricane, rocket stoves give their users peace-of-mind that their cooking doesn't have to be limited to how much propane they have.
03 Mar Guilty of Phubbing?
The scene is all too common. You are having dinner out and spot another couple being escorted to the table next to you. They are attractive and seem so focused on each other that it must be a first date. Only a waiter breaks the...
23 Dec Boca Raton 2020 Election Poll
Boca Raton's FIRST AND ONLY ELECTION 2020 POLL - VOTE NOW! Here's your chance to have your voice be heard! [gravityform id="8" title="true" description="false" action="polls" style="green" mode="poll" cookie="1 month" show_results_link="true" display_results="true" percentages="true" counts="true"]...
08 Nov How to do “Top of the News” for Students and Teachers
What is "Top of the News?" Dr. Robbe, a teacher of mine at Boca Raton High School in the 80's, used to entice the young people with relevant economic, social, political and military local, domestic and international events. It was called Top of the News! Doctor Robbe...
09 Oct Newsletter…. YOUR Input Needed.
I have been collecting people's email addresses for around a year now, letting you all opt-in. Almost 100 people from all over Boca have given me their addresses and let me know what communities you all call home. This is really cool. I appreciate being let known that you're visiting the site and finding the information here to be valuable to you.
03 Oct Keep Boca Kids Informed
How can Boca parents keep kids* informed about the changing world around them? 4boca.com has aggregated news headlines relevant specifically to the people of Boca Raton, updated daily. How can Boca parents connect their kids to the information about a changing planet without exposing them to the...
15 Jul Aggregating News from Paywalled Sources
I've been aggregating news here on 4boca.com by automatic, manual and now pseudo-automatic technology. Visitors have noted how some links point to sites that are paywalled, like the Sun-Sentinel and Palm Beach Post. It's annoying to be linked to a story that you can't read. I understand. I get annoyed by this too. I'm making an intentional effort to avoid doing this moving forward.
07 Jun The Best Way to Avoid Boca Traffic?
There's a really great way to avoid the traffic in Boca Raton. Read on.
07 May Boca’s News Aggregator 2.0
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This site featured manually aggregated links to other sites, mostly news articles, on the hompage. So this site was acting as an aggregator. It wasn't easy to maintain. So I made it easier with new technology. I created a "plugin" for this site's content management system,...
22 Feb Who Is Your Boca Raton City Council Favorite?
This is a poll where YOU pick from the members of Boca Raton City Council. Who represents you best?
14 Feb What’s Crocker Planning for BRIC/TRex ?
Crocker Partners, the developers who built Mizner Park and Boca Center, recently acquired another Boca Raton property, formerly known as T-Rex, the site where IBM developed the first personal computers. Now named the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRIC), this historically significant property is unequaled, priceless in more ways than one. But how has the birth place of the PC fared over the decades? What condition is it in today? I wanted to know so I went to the site and asked questions. I learned that Crocker has plans for this property, betting on its best days being ahead.