This morning, I continue my trek into the “Commuity Starter Kit”,  which apparently takes some configuration tricks to get it working in a deployed site.   

“Exit polls of those leaving the church have found that the major reasons that bring about this decrease in numbers is not because of theological or belief issues. Rather it is about how people are being asked to belong to and participate in the community that is the deciding factor for them. So much of what we DO in church Continue Reading

“But the Geneva Conventions demand protection for civilians even if they are intermingled with military personnel, and the use of cluster bombs in these villages, even if aimed at military targets, thus crosses the boundaries of international law. “ Things we don’t here,  but have to know are happening (or do we?) When I hear people say “That’s war”,  my Continue Reading

this one via The Gutless Pacifist listed under his LeftBar Articles List Good stuff.  How hard is it to “imagine” how opposed the overwhelming majority of people in this country would be to war if it were required to be fought on OUR soil,  and kill OUR CIVILIANS,  and wreck OUR “way of life” for the sake of some imagined retributive Continue Reading

Cluetrain Theses 6: Conversations of an entirely different kind opens the door to the transformation of conversation that is being seen on the Web.  The “enabling of conversations that were simply not possible in the mass media age” is open to all kinds of ideas as to what this could mean.  To explore all the ways conversation is changing on the Continue Reading

John Hagel III’s book, Out Of the Box (subsequently ref. to as OOTB)  has a Web site,  linked to a Weblog at JohnHagel.com.  It is less a technical book about Web services and more of an attempt to interpret for Business execs what Web Services could mean for business.  Hagel wrote Net Gain about 6 years ago,  attempting to interpret Continue Reading

I just signed up for a webhost that has .NET support and SQLServer 2000 support at just 9.95 a month.  I did it mainly to be able to try some “educational tinkering” in order to learn more .Net,  use the Community Starter Kit Beta I downloaded from asp.net (find it under “Starter Kits” at asp.net) The service is called WebHost4Life,  Continue Reading

Judging Amy episode tonight mentions blogging.  Donna is writing about some experiment with ants on her blog,  and Bruce seems to know about blogs as well,  and they’re trying to explain what blogs are to Amy.  I missed the first part of the conversation,  but I’m sure there are people out there blogging this already.  My wife caught it first,  Continue Reading

April is here,  the day is outstanding outside,  so I have opened the windows in my home office and the back door which creates a little breeze across my face and through the little window I created in the bookshelf that I built into what was originally a second, open doorway to this room which was built as a dining area.  I Continue Reading

I just picked up a new book from John Hagel III,  author of Net Gain and Net Worth.  This one is titled “Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services”.  Web Services is the TCP/IP of the Integration world.  Where TCP/IP allowed a variety of computers to connect via the browser,  Web Services Continue Reading

Reds opening day starter signals ominous beginnings for a questionable rotation in 2003.  See “Reds stinking up Great American Ballpark early”. 

“ColdFusionMX” is an entry in My Web development,  which has been a ghost section over the past few months.

Today I have found myself feeling more hopeful and confident than I’ve been in a while.  A doctor had given me a 4 week supply of Paxil back on Feb. 20th,  when I was having all kinds of back tightness and tightness in the lower chest and left side.  It seemed to keep in check a lot of feelings of Continue Reading

Kenneth links to a great piece exposing some of the most common prowar arguments and their holes

This piece pointed to by Dave Winer and a few others is outstanding,  particularly the punch at the end: So I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks, or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don’t have to make it, Continue Reading