Archive for April, 2008

WordPress bloggers: categories or tags

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A little word to my fellow bloggers: if you have a new version of WordPress, you’ll see how you have a choice between categories and tags. What’s the difference?

In short, you plan categories; tags are ad hoc. I would think you would have more tags than categories.

Unitarian Universalist Association would be (here) a category; when […]

My apartment’s real cost

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Hubby and I live in a mid-grade rental apartment in a newly-nice neighborhood very close to downtown D.C. We both walk to work. (Washington, D.C. has one of the highest rates of pedestrian commuters in the country.) We don’t own a car. Most people who don’t live in New York or Los Angeles think we […]

Kiva milestone!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Persons, not institutions, link lenders and borrowers.

What common distributed work would work for UUs?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Two givens.

My Day Job includes lots of interaction with software developers.
My hobby — effectively — is learning more about my three computers, each with its own variant of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux, like other free and open source software projects, have a open yet ordered and participatory [...]

E-recycling in DC

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

D.C.-area people should note that the EPA will have having an electronic recycling drive on Sunday, April 20:

Event Location and Details Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC Corner of 13th and E Streets, NW Metro: Metro Center and Federal Triangle

no Federal property please!
computer

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Atlanta people! Freedom from the car!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Few friends come as good as K. (for Katharine, who’s identified herself with her blog, so I’m glad to do the same) who writes at pointedview. So I think she’ll forgive me for cribbing her whole post, addressed to metro Atlanta residents. But leave her the comments; it’s how you show the love.

Metro Atlanta residents: […]

Naked Day!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

What happened to the design?

To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the

Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

Shared bike comes to DC

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Self-service shared bicycle stations, featured in European cities, comes to the United States first in Washington, D.C. (Or perhaps not; there seems to have been programs elsewhere. So it must be the automated, self-service piece.) A good idea, I think given our strong transit use and relatively flat terrain.

The stations locations, plainly, couldn’t be better […]

The religion of what?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

For better or worse, I was thinking theologically in the shower this morning.

Ponder, as I did, that once-common Unitarian Christian claim that “we don’t practice the religion about Jesus, but the religion ofJesus.” Well, I don’t believe that. However well we dig down to Jesus’ idea and ideal of religion, it comes mediated […]

Practice now to cope later

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Whether you look to the emerging global environmental crisis, the emerging global financial crisis or the spiritual and cultural crisis that may come from the two, I think life is going to be harder for most people as time goes on. Of course, for millions, the hardship may be fatal or at the very least […]