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WorldWideWoodWiki

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I’ve been fascinated with a technology known as ***Wiki|http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiHistory*** since last summer when I was at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference. Conference attendees created a ***sort of unofficial website|http://oscon.kwiki.org/***, where they exchanged all sorts of information, from reviews of local restaurants to job postings to requests for roommates to personal biographies to notes on tutorial sessions. I maintained my own ***personal page|http://oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?PeterWood*** on that site. It was a lot of fun and very, very helpful.

Put simply, a Wiki is a website that everyone contributes to. Anyone can view the pages, anyone can edit the pages. Yes, that’s right… anyone. You don’t need a username or password. You just edit the page. Hard to believe, but true.

One of the coolest pieces of Wiki technology, which I use on a daily basis, is the ***Wikipedia|http://www.wikipedia.org/***. It’s an evolving, growing, free Wiki-based encyclopedia, with articles on everything from ***Oak Bluffs|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Bluffs%2C_Massachusetts*** to ***Star Trek|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trek***.

I’ve set up a Wiki for the World Wide Wood website. ***Take a look|http://prwdot.org/wiki/*** at it, play around with it, contribute to it. I’ll be playing around with it too, so keep an eye out for changes. If you’re the RSS type, there’s an RSS feed of ***recent major changes|http://prwdot.org/wiki/index.php/RecentChanges?format=rss*** to the Wiki. For more granularity, there’s an RSS feed of ***all recent major and minor edits|http://prwdot.org/wiki/index.php/RecentEdits?format=rss*** to the Wiki.

Enjoy!

Nice Weekend

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We ended up having some great weather for this Memorial Day Weekend. Becky and I spent the weekend at the Lowe house in Oak Bluffs on ***Martha’s Vineyard|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard***. We helped out with getting the house ready for summer – inside and out. We also had lots of great food and fun in the sun.

You can see the full, narrated photo gallery ***here|http://gallery.prwdot.org/vineyard_20040528***, but I will give you a few teasers below:

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Font Feedback

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Well, I think we’ll stick with font size “three” for now, which is 12 pixels. Four is borderline for comfortable viewing, but three is just about right. And it’s what we’re already using anyway. Heh. Oh well.

I did change the font sizes in the title of each heading, as well as the spacing between blog entries. Did anyone notice?

Font Size Again

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It’s that time again… which of these font sizes is the smallest one you are comfortable reading?

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Pastors and Pastor Wannabes

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For the Pastors and Pastor Wannabes out there, check out the ***Pastor’s Resource Center|http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_sp?sp=71810*** at CBD. It’s a collection of products and resources for Christian pastors and others interested in preaching. It’s a very well put-together portion of our site (not that any portion is put together badly, but this one is particularly nice). Our prices are great, too, so hopefully you will want to buy some stuff.

For those who are curious, I and the other developers don’t actually write the content you see on any of those pages. We write and manage the back-end content management system that is used by our product editors in order to create their pages.

Articles

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In the left hand side of the page, I’ve added a new section of my ‘articles’. These are full-length discussions of various technology issues. At the moment, there is the “Photo Shootout,” a review I conducted of six online photo printing services, and “Blogging With The Mac,” which I presented last week at the ***MacWoburn|http://www.macwoburn.org/*** meeting.

Check them out, and if you feel so inclined you can discuss them on the ***World Wide Wood discussion forums|http://prwdot.org/bb/***.

News Bites

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Wednesday, May 19: I gave a presentation to the ***MacWoburn|http://www.macwoburn.org/*** Macintosh User Group on “Blogging With The Mac.” The presentation went well, and the attendees had some good questions about blogging in general, as well as the Mac OS applications I had reviewed in the process of preparing for the meeting. For those who couldn’t attend, I have a complete website available which details the essence of the presentation. It includes reviews of six different Mac OS X blogging applications, and you can find it ***here|http://prwdot.org/blogging/***.

Saturday, May 22: Becky and I went down to Hyannis to visit Jeremy and Angela. We had a delicious dinner and then went out to get some ice cream at the opening night of ***Four Seas Ice Cream|http://www.fourseasicecream.com/*** in Centerville. I had peanut butter chocolate chip, while Becky had a pink-colored mint chip. Yum!

I brought along a couple video tapes so that Jeremy and I could continue our regular viewing of ***The Shield|http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/the_shield/***. We’ve been getting together to watch it since its debut in March of 2002 on FX. It’s admittedly quite an intense show (“too intense for network television”), but we’re strangely fascinated with it, along with millions of other viewers. If you haven’t been following the series, it’s probably a bit too late to tune in now, unless you buy the DVD’s and try to catch up.

Upcoming: We’re going to be out of town for the next three weekends, which should be fun. Two of them involve ***Martha’s Vineyard|http://www.mvy.com/***, and one involves ***New Jersey|http://www.state.nj.us/***. We are also planning a road trip to ***Ohio|http://www.ohiotourism.com/home.asp***, later this summer, to see my family, with a side trip to “***camp out|http://www.niagarakoa.net/***” at ***Niagara Falls|http://www.infoniagara.com/***. (Note the quotes around camp out… though we may be sleeping in a tent, it’s far from roughing it.)

In the meantime, it’s ***business|http://www.christianbook.com/*** as usual for me, and for Becky her new job with ***SPNEA|http://www.spnea.org/*** will be starting soon! If you haven’t already, stop by her entry a couple of posts down from this one and leave her a note! 🙂

Send Us Email!

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Check out the left side of our page – you should see a new “Email Us!” link. It’s at the very bottom of every page, too. Feel free to use that whenever you want to send either of us (or both of us) email. It should make the task easier and more fun, as you won’t have to bring up your email client or log in to webmail to send it!

Enjoy!

Gastronomical

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Today was the day – I absolutely, positively had to fill up my car’s gas tank for the first time since the fuel price hike. Luckily, I needed to be on the other side of town where the cheapest gas station is located (American Petroleum at 586 Cabot St. in Beverly). Here is how it broke down:

15.602 gallons of gasoline to fill my tank @ $2.019 dollars per gallon for 87 octane (the lowest price *anywhere* around here!) = $31.50 total!!

*sigh*