Archive for July, 2007

More Google books for your virtual Universalist library

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Made some updates at UniversalistChurch.net. Enjoy.

Best-of writing, worst-of spam

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

I’ve hit one milestone and am approaching another: the Akismet spam filter today has caught its 20,000th piece of spam and I’m approaching 2,000 posts. (This is 1,997.)

Since I’m taking some time to work on other projects, I’ll spend the next few days and refer back to some of the writing for which I’m particularly […]

Just when you thought the Chinese imports issue couldn’t creep you out more

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Heads start rolling . . . .

China food safety head executed

The former head of China’s State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, has been executed for corruption, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports.

Read the rest at BBC News

“Geeks and God”

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Please excuse me, I’ll be blogging a bit less than usual this week. I discovered an interesting blog+podcast called Geeks and God that takes Christian and church-related matters of technology and open-source quite seriously. I’ll be listening to these and taking notes. I also have to clean up and improve UniversalistChurch.net — I just upgraded […]

The lost Open Space opportunity re-found

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

August 20. Welcome to UU World readers. For related articles, see my Social networking and Unitarian Universalist Association category posts.

July 8. There was a lot of interest in this post when I originally wrote it on June 26, but perhaps that was too soon after General Assembly for some to consider how the Open Space […]

Laptop resurrexit

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Here’s an idea: send me your tired, old (but bootable) laptop — the one that makes you ask, “Why would anyone want that?” — and I will give it some kind of new life with Linux.  I’ll document the transformation and find a charitable home for it, perhaps a church or other ministry.

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Perfect day

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

It’s 07/07/07.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Is anyone not seeing new posts when they visit?

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

A follow up from a reader’s concern. Is anyone else not seeing new posts when they visit, without having to refresh the browser?

Who loses in current blogger poly debate?

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

I’m with ChaliceChick — wow! Look what’s going on at The Lively Tradition, Liberal Faith Development and her blog. Read for comments.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much written at one time among Unitarian Universalists about polyamory, polygamy and polyandry. Now, the reason why the subject has come up — and I’ll spare […]

Why blog when there’s Doctor Who?

Friday, July 6th, 2007

The first episode of the third season (new series) of Doctor Who — “Smith and Jones” — premieres on SciFi tonight and I’m watching it. Why blog?  What’s the Universalist significance?

It is set at a hospital — called Royal Hope but obviously (OK, maybe; like I know London that well) intended to be a variation […]