Hello folks, sorry I’ve been a little bit under the radar for the last 10 days or so.  After the Memorial Day weekend, which I took off to relax, I had to begin moving (I’m still in Woodland Hills, don’t worry!) for a few days.

Sadly, I have been without meaningful and reliable Internet in my off hours, but that is gong to change on Wednesday and I will be back in the saddle.

You should check out the recent comments to various blog posts, as I just approved some interesting ones including:

Vicky writes in to tell us about the guy who got shot in front of Best Buy’s kids.

Courtney Conoscenti (also known as murdered porn star Damien Michaels’ “fiance”) drops in a comment that she is pregnant with his baby.

Dave writes in to give me some Kudos for lighting a fire under LAPD Topanga Station’s ass regarding Nixle. Thanks Dave!

LA.Curbed.com Homepage Feb 9, 2010

Wow, first LA.Eater.com picked up my story about The Stand introducing breakfast, and now LA.Curbed.com featured by story about nefarious LAPD putting out the word about door-to-door salesmen.  Sweet!  Thanks Curbed!

Here’s a permalink to the Curbed post.

I switched over to a new theme/design for Hills of Woodland today because the old one didn’t work correctly in Apple’s Safari Browser or Google Chrome.  I’ll be tweaking it and fine tuning it for a few more days.  Carry on.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year and I hope everyone has an awesome and safe New Year’s Eve!!

Hopefully 2010 will be a great year for us all!

And remember folks, LAPD would kindly like for you not to shoot your guns in the air.

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Had some server issues yesterday, but got it resolved late last night.  Many blogs ready to go!

Hey everyone! I was out of town for a few days and will begin catching things up on the site tonight.  Thanks, and I hope you are all just about done with your holiday shopping!

I am very pleased that so many people are making comments on the blog!  Some of you might want to be able to personalize the little picture that appears next to your comments.  It’s very easy!  You have to go to a site called Gravatar.com.  This is a service that allows one centrally located avatar to be used any time you comment on anyone’s WordPress blog.  It’s pretty sweet.  You just create an account with the e-mail address you use for your blog commenting, upload a picture, and you are done!  Enjoy.

It’s so easy, even a caveman can do it!

Today marks the one month anniversary of the site and I think we’re off to a good start.  I really appreciate everyone’s participation – your comments being posted, e-mailed tips, etc. are really a big part of what will ultimately make this blog as good as it can be.  I also really would like local business owners and community members to e-mail me to keep me abreast of any news or events you may have, new products and services, etc. etc.

Remember to tell a friend or neighbor about the site, and also the “Share This” link under a story is a quick and easy way to e-mail it to a friend or even post it on your Facebook page (a million other places).

There are close to 80,000 people in Woodland Hills and I will not rest until each one of them is chronically and dysfunctionally addicted to reading this site every day.

You can always e-mail me at contact@hillsofwoodland.com.

Girard

I woke up this morning and no one was shot or run over. Probably a good thing, maybe some good news will happen soon!

I’d lke to thank all the readers who have been visiting the site in this, our first week of existence! I’ve added several enhancements to the site today.  Firstly, all posts will be syndicated to Tweets on Twitter, so if you have Twitter please follow us to always be notified about new posts.

Also, you’ll now see “Share This” under every post so you can easily e-mail posts to your friends or share them on various social media sites.

Also, there is now a list in the sidebar of posts by popularity.

Still working out a few glitches, but hopefully more great and interesting things to come.