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Monthly Archives May 2007

Attack of the Giant Fonts?

How does the blog look now? Please note your operating system and browser, and if it seems freakishly large or normal. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2022′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Northern New England districts to consolidate

With the departure of the Canadian congregations to make the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) autonomous, I think UUA watchers suspected it was just a matter of time before some of the northerly US districts started merging. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2020′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

GA 2008: Seafarer’s House

If there’s a local ministry we can look to helping at the 2008 GA, perhaps this is the one, very near the Convention Center Seafarer’s House Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2015′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

“Why Starr King?”

This may be my Southern and East Coast associations showing, in my twenty-plus years of being a Unitarian Universalist, Starr King School for the Ministry has always been “that school.” You know, the funny one. The one with a penchant for curly, spirally graphics. The one that’s so serious about language — remember the poetry-filled [...]

GA 2008: It’s an open smile on a friendly shore

So it looks like the Fort Lauderdale convention center — home of GA 2008 — faces petroleum tanks. Who cares? The rear looks towards the port, where the cruise ships dock. That’s encouraging, right? Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2018′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

New theme trials

I’ve had this blog theme for a year and a half, perhaps more. I’m going to try a few themes live and see what I like. Some links, features and other tidbits may not work when I install them and I’ll only make fixes if I think I have a semi-finalist. Feel free to comment. [...]

GA 2008: Convention center!

I thought, “Why wait to look into GA 2008? After all, I might attend that one.”  There’s a direct rail connection from Washington to Ft. Lauderdale — tres, tres green — and you’d think the hospitality industry would make it a delightful stay. I might be very wrong. (Google maps, hybrid view) I doubt those [...]

Rivalry and the fate of the Affiliates

I think “LT” at thelivelytradition is working in the right direction in his series on UUA independent affiliate situation. A lot of email is being spilled on this subject. Start reading here and keep going until its done. I’ll pick up the theme myself later. Lunch is over; back to work. Share this article Hide [...]

The return of the notebook

I thought I was going to ruin Ms. Theologian’s day when I wrote at her blog (Surviving the Workday) that her dear Moleskine notebooks — despite protesting they’re “designed in Italy” — are in fact made in China. She has been very keen to avoid buying anything made in China and for good reason. (I [...]

A step closer to global peer-to-peer help

Every day, central authorities loose a little more power. Whether their power was delegated or co-opted, we needed them to make decisions because there was no way to organize mass, non-local movements on a peer basis. Every day, technological improvements and personal attitudes lower the barrier to peer-to-peer information sharing, product production, collective action and [...]