Archive for January, 2007

Not all web-based subscriptions are created equal

Friday, January 12th, 2007

OK, perhaps this is becoming a computing blog of sorts. But only to help people, and particularly those who lead and assist religious congregations. I don’t want anyone to suffer, including bad customer service for web-based products.

PC World magazine has an article “Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!” (Tom Spring, 2006 December 22) which reviews the […]

First Universalist, Providence: new website

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

First Universalist Church, Providence, which formerly had its website hosted at UniversalistChurch.net now has its brand new, shiny website at its own domain, FirstUniversalist.net. Apart from the fact that a largish number of UU bloggers know its minister, the Rev. W. Scott Axford, First Universalist is significant as one of the very rare remaining prayer […]

Linux look: Guadalinex

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Before readers think this is turning into a Linux blog, let me say I wanted to look at some of the other Linux distributions from Spain, following Jaume’s comments in the last entry.

More after the jump.

Linux look: Molinux

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Ubuntu Linux, which my regular readers know I love, has been producing variations like mushrooms in spring including two Christian variations which I think are a waste of time, a proposed Jewish variation (though I wonder if this isn’t a jape) and a Satanic theme, to dress up one of the more conventional versions.

I am […]

Epiphany in Washington

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Hubby and I were rounding Dupont Circle last night, off to get dinner and run some errands. (”Were are the uniformed Secret Service?” I asked, as we passed the Iraqi embassy. “There were three cruisers here on New Year’s Day.”) Like much of the US, the weather was freakishly warm; some revelers were in t-shirts.

We […]

Five links: January 5

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Here are five resources I found around Christmas and the New Year, for your church administration and liturgy pleasure:

A quick how-to about news feeds at Idealist.org
The website that accompanies the interesting design book D.I.Y. Design It Yourself. Not a bad place if you’re learning design.

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“And service is our prayer”

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I was tickled when my spell-checker tried to make Grameen into sacrament. Grameen, of course, refers to the famous microfinance entity (and by extension, it values) that has made it possible for some of the world’s poorest people to create businesses, and with them an income, security and dignity.

These entities — there are several, the […]

Backing up my computer by US Postal Service (and an appeal for thumb drives)

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

I’ve spent much of New Year’s Day making copies of my back-up discs — CVS had CD-RWs on sale — to send to a Secure Location. I suppose I could have made a gigantic tarball archive and stored it somewhere, but there is something to be said for not tying up bandwidth and using a […]