brad labroad.us

Full frame black and white photo of the head of Cairn Terrier. The dogs hair is full and harsh, its eyes are bright, and the mouth is open sightly in a friendly expression.

WORKING STIFF — Storrs Library, Sunnyvale Public Library, Multnomah County Central Library, Columbia Helicopters, Tektronix, ADP (now CDK Global), Target, Washington County Cooperative Library Services. Retired.JOINER — Columbia River Cairn Terrier Club, Cairn Terrier Club of America, Oregon Trail’s End Earthdog Club. Officer, board member, committee member, co-founder of organizations.

Team Cairn

It's Cairndemonium around here

A young CairnTerrier stands in an alert posture on grass. Two large, mossy paving stones are visible in the grass.

Hoku

GCH Mystic Isles Autumn Ridge at Joywood FDC SWN
b. 2020.10.26
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A red or cream brindle Cairn Terrier rests in an amusing posture on a dark brown leather sofa. The dog is resting his forearms and elbows on a wide arm of the furniture, while the rear legs stand on a seat cushion.

Elroy

Kinloch's William Wallace NW1
b. 2019.06.10
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A black and white side profile view of an older CairnTerrier who looks intently to the left. His coat is silver and black. A glimpse of the faric couch he is standing on can be see. In the background, out of focus, there is framed art on the walls.

Dundee

CH Kinloch's Intentional Walk at Robinsend CAA SWN NW1
b. 2010.03.02
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A light colored Cairn Terrier is photographed in mid-flight as she leaps over a jump toward the viewer with a white obedience dumbbell in her mouth.

Stella

Robinsend Still Echoing CDX RN ME
b. 2004.04.12 — d. 2020.04.26
In memoriam

A black and silver Cairn Terrier sits on a black rubber mat looking up at the viewer with an open and friendly expression.

Granger

Robinsend Unspecified Device CD
b. 2005.10.01 — d. 2017.01.07
In Memoriam

Against a dark green background a red brindle Cairn Terrier's head and neck fill the frame. The dog is looking straight at the viewer with an open and friendly expression.

Echo

CH Robinsend Bit of A Thrill CD RN ME CA
b. 2011.04.19 — d. 2017.09.18
In Memoriam

A headshot of an old black and grizzle Cairn Terrier with a calm and slightly serious expression as he looks at a slight angle, as if over the viewer's right shoulder.

Haggis

CH Joywood's Thrill of the Chase CD RN ME
b. 1995.08.07 — d. 2012.07.19
In Memoriam

A dignified old black and silver Cairn Terrier sits upright, leaning slightly forward. Her body is facing left but her head is turned to look at the viewer.

Barley

Tu Schu's Untied CD RN ME
b. 1994.11.02 — d. 2009.06.16
In Memoriam

Cabinet of Horrors

Assorted web projects. Beware of link rot and abandoned web shafts.


A screenshot of a forum front page showing colorful blocks illustrating the theme of various forums.

CairnTalk

Originally an adjunct to the Cairn Terrier Club of America site I established the forum as a means to allow the CTCA to interact in a friendly, informal way with Cairn fanciers.The club declined to embrace the opportunity; however, the community thrived despite benign neglect by the parent organization. When I retired as CTCA web administrator the club graciously permitted me to transition the forum to a privately owned site.CairnTalk lives on today as an unaffiliated independent Cairn community forum.In its earliest incarnations, CairnTalk was run on first Discus, then phpBB, and finally rebuilt as an Invision Community (then called Power Board). The site has been running on Invision since 2004.

Oregon Trail's End Earthdog Club

A founding member of the Oregon Trail’s End Earthdog club I’ve served as it’s president, a board member, test chair, den master, and member of the test committee for many, many earthdog tests.OTEEC is a simple, basic site primarily for posting event entry forms when they become available for our earthdog tests.

A screenshot of a very plain web page. There are pawprints in the background and a round logo at the top center of the page shows a shovel in dirt against a green grassy background.
A screenshot of a portal page for a club. There are images atop articles arranged in newspaper style under a gray navigation bar. Other colors noticeable are a teal calendar ad and blocks of tartan made of purple, brown, yellow, and green.

Columbia River Cairn Terrier Club

A charter member of the Columbia River Cairn Terrier Club I was its first president and served three terms for a total of six years. I’ve served as a board member, show chair for our regional specialty and CTCA national roving specialty, and as an earthdog test committee member. I’ve been the club’s web administrator since club creation in 2004.The site has been transformed many times and has existed on many platforms. It started as a Mambo instance which I transitioned to Drupal and then to Ellis Lab‘s original PMachine. When PMachine became ExpressionEngine I transitioned the site to EE.Over time my experience with CairnTalk forum convinced me that maintaining and building out club functionality would be easier with the integrated Invision Community suite so I rebuilt CRCTC on the Invision platform. The site has been maintained through several major revisions of that software.CRCTC makes extensive use of the Invision database (Pages), Gallery, Downloads and Commerce modules with some use of the Forum module. I have created a fairly large number of custom databases to manage things like policy manuals, files and forms, history, directories, inventories and other club information assets.I eventually started using Amazon S3 for storage of some files. The most recent update has been to transition the Commerce functionality from Invision to Ecwid.

Omeka Proof of Concept

A small Omeka proof-of-concept proposal I created for the History committee of the Cairn Terrier Club of America.The concept was built using a stack of club newsletters (published in magazine format) that I had handy in my study. My aim was to demonstrate how an exhibit could be created from a digitized collection — featuring covers but with full PDF issues optionally included.My suggestion was to add digitized versions of all club publications into collections in order that other general and special-focus exhibits could be built.No action was ever taken, to my knowledge. The club has apparently digitized all of its yearbooks but to my knowledge they have never been put online in any form, even for members.

Screenshot of an archive web page. The page background is a yellowed paper texture with a pale blue navigation bar. A black and white magazine cover is featured on the left side with a long article excerpt on the right.
A simple web page with a simple line drawn dog head logo, the words "cairn.social" underneath. Underneath that are eight "pill" style buttons in pastel colors. The buttons read "Bluesky, Cairn Talk Forum, Oregon Trail's End Earthdog, Just One More, Columbi

cairn.social

DNS verification for a Bluesky handle and a single serving agglomeration of assorted cairn-focused social profiles and sites.

On and On Anon

A silly endpoint for a throwaway joke on a forum.

A screenshot of a simple web page. The page uses a typewriter font and appears as a card aainst a dark bluish-green gradient background. Three outline style buttons at the top read "Home - B - Contact." Below the buttons in large text reads "on-and-on-anon
Screenshot of a personal blog with article blocks featuring Cairn Terriers running, peering at a rock, lined uo for a formal family portrait (four dogs against a cream background, and two dogs trying to furl up in the same bed.

Robinsend

Do you remember that ancient visual joke where someone asks a man “So, do you have any kids?” and the man whips out a wallet and six feet of accordion-fold pictures unravel?Well, for a while that was Robinsend — the web-based, pet-heavy equivalent of that accordion-fold wallet.We have fewer Cairns now. My bureau looks like a columbarium niche with an increasing number of urns keeping us company.Most anything new to do with our personal Cairns or Cairn activity these days is shared on CairnTalk in lieu of keeping Robinsend updated.

Just One More

A journal of daily shaves through a rotation of (primarily) straight razors.

Screenshot of a shaving journal blog. The page has two large photos vertically arranged showing closeup views of parts of straight razor and a white shaving brush.
A screenshot of a mobile-sized web page. A sepia image of a serious looking Cairn Terrier is at the top with the words "Advance Directives" and "aquiescere inevitabilis" overlaid in white. Below are three panel style buttons in ever-darkening shades of gra

Advance Directives

For family in the event it should become necessary. Mobile friendly access to advance directives, the support line for our prearranged disposition, and our dog's fairy godmother.

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