I hurt my wrist a few weeks ago, making typing difficult. It also makes blogging difficult. So I have started using a tool called Voice Note, available for the Chrome browser as a plugin. It transcribes what I read into a microphone and all it takes a little light editing for me to compose what you are reading now.
Boy in the Bands approved.
My love-hate affair with Google continues. If you come across me in a Google search (say, for “Kandahar fellowship“) , you’ll now get my Google Plus profile because I registered my authorship. If you have a blog with your own domain, and you want to help drive traffic, you might want to do the same.
I think I know why I’ve had such a hard time getting back into blogging. I just can’t convince myself there’s much I can add that would help. I classify my various criticisms of Unitarian Universalism, liturgical tidbits and data ponderings in the same way: a foundation on which others can make some good. But I suspect the social forces are too strong for our religious fellowship’s poorly-resourced and gentilly not-hardly-countercultural ways. (And I don’t have much hope for most religious institutions, whatever their basis.)
And reading the UUA Board’s recent meeting agenda hardly filled me with hope. I might comment on that, if I thought it would do any good. When I have something to write, I’ll be back.
You may now leave comments in the Markdown markup language — as I may write posts — to format them easily. Used this plugin, for what it’s worth.
This is what the above blogpost looks like in Markdown:
You may now leave comments in the [Markdown][1]
markup language -- as I may write posts --
to format them easily.
Used this [plugin][2], for what it\'s worth.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
[2]: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-markdown/
For more than a year, I’ve been typing out the appointed prayers (proper collects) and biblical lessons from two sources — Universalist and “Free Church” — which map the historic Western lectionary. It’s not complete, but I’ve transcribed enough to make it worth it worth indexing them. Follow this link. Like the main project, it will be a work in process.
ObscuraCam is a phone app for Android to help citizen-journalists obscure faces in crowd photographs and videos, say, in undemocratic societies.
It might be helpful in building your church’s website. You can use it to hide the faces of minors and other vulnerable persons, should your church’s policies require or recommend it.
Two examples:
Your blogger, anonymized.
Your blogger, who doesn’t want his book choices known. (It isn’t perfect.)
Back from a five-day trip to Key West with Hubby, which mostly explains my eight day blogging break — but I’ve not forgotten you and will blog as soon as I have something worth saying. Which may be a bit longer. Perhaps a few photos first.
So what do y’all think of this theme? (I would be changing the typeface if I keep it.)
Note to self (and others): after nine years of blogging, I think I’m going to keep blogging — I like it — but move to a shorter format, with occasional project-oriented longer pieces and perhaps some theological items. (And the weekly preaching texts and prayers to finish up the year.)
More tumblr than features. Perhaps eta da Esperanto.
What it means. In short, a promotion of web standards, particularly the differentiation of web content and design. The site will return to normal tomorrow.