This may never happen again, so I needed to write about it while I have the chance. Back in May both of the roommates I’d had for the previous eight months left, one because he got married and the other because he was going to be working in Tennessee for a few months. Before leaving, they each found a guy to sublease for them. Since these new guys moved in with me they’ve both become bloggers! (They’re also both using WordPress.) So, in an attempt to drive a little traffic to their new sites I thought I’d tell you a little about their blogs.
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This past November at the Navigators National Staff Conference we were treated to the first three parts of a four-part animated series called “The D-Team.” The series is about fund raising and the Nav Development Team. Part three ended saying that the conclusion would be posted online. After waiting patiently all these months they have finally posted all four chapters here. They even made a Facebook profile for Zach and Kate (pictured).
There are a lot of jokes in these videos that, if you’re not on Nav Staff, you might not get. The first three episodes were met with uproarious laughter at each of the plenary sessions. I’d like to hear what you think of these videos, so leave a comment.
To update my (very few) regular readers who actually traverse my website and don’t read these words in an RSS feed, email subscription or Facebook note, I have managed to fix the Articles page on my site. As you may recall, back over Christmas break I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 and ended up breaking a handful of my plugins. The Articles plugin by Alex King was one of them.
Two folks in the WP community helped me get this fixed. Andy Cowl first posted this fix on the WP support forum. But that only got me so far, since I couldn’t figure out how to apply the fix properly. But I found that Stephen Cronin had blogged about the fix over on his site. So I asked him for help and he sent me the edited file. Big props to both of you.
My Articles page still looks a little goofy (font formating) but at least it works. I encourage you to check it out. It’s where I have all of my favorite and most popular posts listed.
I actually don’t have an Article page on my website anymore. I now have a Start page, which is similar in concept but does not use a plugin. Here’s the blog post in which I introduce that page and explain why I decided to make it.
So I was shooting the breeze this morning on MySpace (remember, Monday is my day off) and I found myself on Zach Braff’s profile page. As many of you know I have become a huge fan of his show Scrubs in recent months. On his profile he has this YouTube video clip from a Scrubs rehearsal of a scene I had never seen before (and I’ve seen every episode). But it soon became clear to me why I hadn’t seen it before. Each time I watch this video I smile from ear to ear. Even if you aren’t a fan of the show you’ll like this.
How great is it that the two days I’ve been looking forward to since the beginning of the summer will take place back-to-back! First of all, on Thursday, October 25 Scrubs will begin its seventh and final season. Remember all the drama from the season six finale? Look for it at 9:30 PM on NBC, right after that other show people seem to like.
Then, on Friday, October 26 at 6 PM the world will at long last have access to Mac OS X Leopard. The announcement was just made today. I didn’t want to buy a Mac before their new OS came out, so now I finally feel the freedom to become a Mac owner.
Now, where will I be during these two events? Well, on Thursday I’ll be wrapping things up at Nav Night after a night of worship, likely making plans to go to Steak & Shake or Coldstone or something like that. Who knows that I’ll be doing Friday, but it won’t involve me being in line for Leopard or my new Mac. You see, the Mac I want doesn’t currently exist, but there are rumors that it will be made in January.
But in spite my lack of participation I’m still really excited!
As we look upon the day of our nation’s independence let us always remember those who went before us, often giving sacrificially to make this great nation possible.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens… reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
~ George Washington (farewell address)“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
~ Thomas Jefferson (memorial inscription)
If you’ve been around me at all over the past few months you know that I’ve been excited about this day. I’ve been actively working on this project since February. I’ve been talking about it for even longer. Here it is boys and girls: version 4.0. If you’re reading this blog entry in Facebook or in your RSS feed click here and come see what I’m talking about. My website is brand-new and I want to show it off.
I don’t know what to talk about first! There’s just so much to tell you about. I guess the best place to start is with the switch in blog providers. I’m now using WordPress instead of Xanga. This is a switch that I should have made over a year ago but never got around to putting the effort into the project. I’ve been paying for shared hosting server space without hosting my own blog, which really doesn’t make much sense. WordPress is so much more than a blog though. It’s what people on the web call a Content Management System. My entire website goes through WordPress. All of my old blog entries and comments came along for the ride, so if there was something from my old site you liked it’s probably here (or will be soon, in the case of some of my old photos).
