Do you have any local websites that you would reccomend?

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5. For those who are techies that live in Portland calagator.org is useful...

It is a site that publishes meetings for various tech user groups, etc. in this area.

http://calagator.org/

Not sure if these are the kind of informational sites you are looking for, but there are others too.

Here is a site for food carts in the area, which is useful for going out to lunch.

http://www.foodcartsportland.com/

Bing maps has a nice interactive food map for food carts too that I used a lot earlier a year ago when I worked downtown.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/08/25/find-portland-food-carts-with-bing-maps/