I went to a Microsoft “Launch” event last night (for Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio.Net 2003),  got all the “Evaluation CDs”, cool pen and pad,  and a T-shirt all folded up into the shape of a Microsoft Logo.  I came within 1 of the final digit of winning a Dell PC at the end of the event,  and then Continue Reading

I wrote in the entry “The Vicious Cycle” about my journey on the job and prospect front over the past 6 months, and added a paragraph today (recounted below) that seems to more clearly identify what is “cyclical” about what’s been happening. It has to do with a tendency to identify some possibility for work that comes along, and expending Continue Reading

I keep seeing the home page Text problem, and it’s driving me nuts! Why do the category and archive homepages work fine (the text wraps in the browser window width, but the main index (home) page scrolls right on off the page! Somebody send me a copy of their index template where they don’t have this problem. (I’ve had this Continue Reading

I’ve been doing these searches ,  and writing a couple of replies to comments I received,  since about noon today.  I’m weary from it,  and I’m a bit exasperated.  Almost time to relax for a bit and watch The season finale of The West Wing (in about 20 minutes)

I’ve been doing searches for things that might turn up some serindipitous,  hit-the-jackpot, miraculous,  this-is-it, burning bush kind of job.  Actually, anything web development related with some relationship to Church bodies.  As usual,  there’s not much that turns up.  I take a gander at the major denominational sites (all except for the SBC/Lifeway,  that is) to see if there are Continue Reading

On May 22nd, I turn 47. This will, barring some major event, be the most uncertain, disturbing one of them all. I fear that I’m too old for many prospective employers to seriously consider hiring for a Web Development position.

This unemployment is a vicious cycle. When I was in my first month, and it was December 2002, I figured that month would be a given that nothing new would open up. I mean, it’s Christmas. Nothing new starts until the first of the year. So I sent out the resumes, joined Monster.com and Career builder, and wrote emails to Continue Reading

Regarding the previous post:  It seems that something gets clogged up in the upstreaming facility for Radio,  which causes it to refuse upload until whatever it is has been “goosed” into activity,  or some such thing.  Geez! (this post came via Radio to MT tool named Footbridge.

I have a need to find out how to get entries in certain categories NOT to show on the main index page. I have a whole host of “Stories” that I want to transplant from Radio that I do not want appearing (all 75 or so of them) on the home page as a recent post. I would like it Continue Reading

The text doesn’t get contained within a window in the User’s browser (or mine, when I view the site). What’s up with that? I need a template fix of some kind. Anybody have a basic MT template I can plug in? Mine got messes up , although this has been happening since Post #1, before I knew ehre the template Continue Reading

I have an opml file in Radio that generates my Blogroll for my radio site. How do I use this to display this same blogroll on my MT site?

How is it , that if I place the following just below the body tag in the main index template, that I do not restrict the width of the MT content to 90% of the screen? table width=90% align=”center” tr td (all of these with brackets) btw, I also closed these with /td,/tr, /table at the bottom of the template, Continue Reading

I am still in search of a solution to 2 problems (among others): I want to be able to not show certain posts according to Category. I had a feature over in Radio called “Stories” for longer posts (I suppose the MT “read further” might work, come to think of it), and so I made a category in MT called Continue Reading

JOHO on AKMA and his credentials as a techno-theologian: “Will someone please find him a job that combines theology, preaching, scholarship, teaching and being a tech guru for a college? Oh, and stand-up comic and candidate for political office” And after someone does that,  help me find one too.

Today,  on yet another non-Church going Sunday morning (I am a bit sinus-clogged and sluggish,  which may well be evidenced in this entry),  I am bummed about how the job market is.  I went to Dell on Thursday and took a series of “tests” to determine my “Sales Skills”,  and I failed a test that took you through a series Continue Reading