This evening, I completed the migration of all sites in the prwdot.org domain to a new hosting provider. For non-techies, all this means to you is that if you tried to access our site earlier tonight and got any error messages or saw broken image icons, that’s why. Everything should be back to normal now, but please do let me know if you see anything that seems to be broken.
If you’re interested in some technical details of this move, feel free to read on.
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If you use a Mac, continue reading this entry. If not, feel free to skip it. Either way, make sure you keep scrolling after this post to read Becky’s excellent post on The Farfarers.
I wanted to share a moment of ***Quicksilver|http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/*** Zen I had tonight. I had just downloaded a program, which was automatically uncompressed by Safari. A new window automatically opened showing the application’s icon. Then Quicksilver stepped in. I typed the first letter of the icon’s name to select it. I hit ctrl-space to bring up Quicksilver. I hit cmd-g to grab the selection from the Finder. I hit tab and typed ‘co’ to copy, hit tab again and typed ‘ap’ to select the ‘Applications’ folder. I hit return. Program copied. It might sound like a lot, but keep in mind this took just about four seconds and my hands never had to leave the keyboard.
Today at work we had a little departmental food day to celebrate the holidays. Many people brought in food for others to enjoy. Our contribution was a plate of cranberry cookies made by Becky and me:
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There was also quite a nice sunset at the end of the work day. As seen from the conference/food room:
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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but when you hear a radio advertisement featuring the voice of Santa Claus, there will typically be one of two dramatic interpretations: Jolly Old Santa or Demonic Santa. Jolly Old Santa is your basic, cheerful sounding “Ho, ho, ho!” The type of guy who you would certainly want to be bringing you presents in the middle of the night. His voice is warm and friendly sounding. The other type, Demonic Santa, sounds like Jolly Old Santa taken a bit too far. He has the low, rumbling voice, but it also sounds like it’s been lowered a few octaves, run through a reverb effect, and has a faintly maniacal edge to it. The kind of Santa who you’d rather not have consuming your milk and cookies as he brings fire and brimstone to put in your stockings in the night.
Anyone with me on this?
This morning at breakfast, I poured the last of our milk into our cereal bowls. As I was cleaning out the milk bottle and preparing to put it into our recycling bin, I remarked to Becky, “Can you believe that some people just throw these things in the trash?” She replied, “Yeah, like everyone else in our building!” It’s true! We’re the only people in the building who put out a recycling bin every other week. Everyone else just puts out tons of trash. I just can’t believe that people still throw perfectly good recyclable items into the trash. Perhaps they don’t realize that there are a ***lot|http://www.beverlyma.gov/Public_Documents/BeverlyMA_Recycling/rules*** of things you can put in there? Don’t come crying to me when you start paying for your tons of trash after the ***city passes its hauling charges on to you|http://www2.townonline.com/beverly/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=147495***.
Tonight was the ***Boston Weblogger Meetup|http://blog.meetup.com/3/events/?eventId=3713535&action=pastdetail***. This is only the second meetup I’ve attended, but I had quite a good time. I met a bunch of completely new-to-me people, chatted about blogs, technology, society, had a good ***burger|http://www.grendelsden.com/***, and got a whole new list of blogs to put on my blogroll…
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This weekend’s ***Mystic Meetup|http://gallery.prwdot.org/mystic_meetup*** was great. I really haven’t had that much fun in a long time. It was terrific getting to hang out with Bob and Jeremy and to catch up with everyone.
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“What does God want with a starship?” That is the eternal question which I have pondered with Bob. Bob was friends with Jeremy before I met them, and we all roomed together our senior year at ***Gordon|http://www.gordon.edu/***. The three of us took ***Dr. Green’s|http://www.gordon.edu/academics/biblical/faculty.htm*** Christian Doctrine class together Bob was also in our wedding, as well as in Jeremy’s wedding.
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Happy Birthday! Live Long and Prosper, Bob.
Incidentally, Bob, Jeremy, and I are getting together this weekend, along with our spouses, in ***Mystic, CT|http://www.mystic.ct.us/***. Should be fun! Of course I’ll have photos up once we get back. 🙂
Jeremy… Jeremias… Cappy G… Mr. Biggs… Whatever you want to call him, wish him a happy birthday!
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I’m happy to have been friends with Jeremy for four years now. From being apartmentmates in Tavilla Hall at ***Gordon|http://www.gordon.edu/*** to being apartmentmates after graduation in Woburn, from having him in my wedding, to having been in his wedding, from discussing theology in the morning to blowing each other up playing Unreal Tournament at night, from walking to his room fifty feet across the apartment at Gordon, to driving to his apartment two hours away in Hyannis just to watch a TV show. Here’s to you, man.
Looks like Dubya just completed his ***fifth grade cultural awareness assignment|http://www.boston.com/dailynews/342/wash/President_Bush_s_Hanukkah_mess:.shtml***. Just goes to show that a Yale education encyclopedia is still good for something in this day and age!