Archive for August, 2007

Blog as district business manager

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I am very interested in August Retreat: Notes for the PSD Board/Staff/Program Council Retreat. The PSD is the Prairie Star District of the Unitarian Universalist Association and looking at the title, this seems to be a short-term blog. It has Phil Lund’s hand (Phil’s Little Blog on the Prairie) all over it; after all, he […]

At least it’s an open format!

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

This fun quiz is going around, but I first saw it at Jamie Goodwin’s blog. My result:

Slow and steady changes to the blog theme

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

As constant readers may note, I wanted to move away from the current/past theme and used a version of Cutline — the Apple-y black and white one — but there were reader usability complaints so I moved back. Some of those complaints, while valid, were beyond the occasional tweek. Plus, I was seeing that theme […]

Where did the highway begin?

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

I was reading a post at Looking for Faith where its author quotes John Murray’s much-cited passage from his first sermon in America. You know the one — it is even in the gray hymnal:

Go out into the highways and byways of America, your new country. Give the people, blanketed with a decaying and crumbling […]

Whither, wither the UU Voice

Monday, August 13th, 2007

A while back, I got this email:

Scott, I noticed that the UU Voice website is down. Do you have any idea if the UU Voice is still around? I’m not a UU, but I hate to see independent UU publications go under.

Well, the good news is that the UU Voice (uuvoice.org) domain is still registered […]

At BarCampDC today

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

At BarCampDC today — a “ad-hoc unconference and is part of the larger BarCamp movement. While there are topics suggested for discussion, there is no set agenda until everyone gathers. Attendees are required to participate to some degree: either by giving a presentation, demo, etc. or by facilitating a group discussion.”

This gets back to the […]

Good news for Linux from the courts

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

See this article in today’s New York Times:

“Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell“

But I think the future of open-source software adoption is in the hands of those who make an attractive and learnable user experience.

Hans for President

Friday, August 10th, 2007

A person more politically astute than I noted this state presidential campaign site and remembered the UCC site with the “Hi! I’m Hans” flash animation.

I need to not blog while the TV’s on

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

For a moment, I thought I saw an ad for Unitarian Direct auto insurance.

(I don’t endorse any auto insurance or indeed car driving.)

I like UUpdates, but what other aggregators do you read from?

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I like UUpdates, but what other aggregators do you read from?  Not just Unitarian Universalist sites, but generally.

Please note which and say why.