Category: techno

new techie goals

I’m working on a new Intranet site for work today. Last week I was working on new WordPress themes for a possible encounter website redesign (you may have seen them on my Flickr stream).
While working on the Intranet site I’m using CasadeBlundell.com for “filler text” and it got me thinking about redesigning that site as well. It’s gotten a little stagnant.
All of this led me to think about a few goals/challenges I’d like to figure out/complete before to long (some of them are personal, others are work related).

  • Finish a redesign of the encounter website
  • Redesign CasadeBlundell.com
  • Redesign our departmental Intranet site
  • Find out how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one – hopefully without using third party software. I’d love to be able to let people subscribe to one RSS feed and get the latest from my twitter feed, Flickr feed and of course my SSL feed. I’d eventually love to have an option to combine all my RSS feeds with Laurie’s RSS feeds as well so people can truly stay up to date with what’s going on.
  • Get a better grasp/understanding of CSS – this is coming slowly as I build these other sites
  • Learn PHP language – coming along even slower

I think those are the main ones for now – but who knows I may think of several more on the way home – you can check my Twitter feed for updates on the way home 😉

Wiki trivia

having my own Wiki has taught me a thing or two about Wikipedia and other Wiki’s in general – so here’s some interesting things I’ve found out about Wikipedia recently.

Pages with the most revisions:

  • George W. Bush ‎(33,566 revisions)
  • Wikipedia ‎(22,491 revisions)
  • United States ‎(17,215 revisions)
  • Jesus ‎(16,010 revisions)
  • 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict ‎(15,432 revisions)
  • Wii ‎(14,774 revisions)
  • Adolf Hitler ‎(14,555 revisions)
  • World War II ‎(14,453 revisions)
  • Deaths in 2006 ‎(13,788 revisions)
  • RuneScape ‎(13,706 revisions)

The English-language Wikipedia currently contains 2,159,739 articles.
This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, we have 11,370,560 pages.

Users have made 191,097,861 edits, with an average of 16.81 per page, since July 2002. This includes edits by unregistered users. In addition, we currently have 756,894 media files (excluding files from the Wikimedia Commons).

Jesus, Liberal Or Conservative?

This January, Church of the Resurrection (Leawood, KS) is beginning a new sermon series called “Seeing Gray.” Pastor Adam Hamilton will be searching for insight to some complex gray areas of faith, morality, and politics by studying the Bible and Christ’s example.

Are there gray issues surrounding your faith?

What I really like about this series is they’re posing the question to YouTube viewers and seeking their responses. Similar to a man on the street video like we’ve done in the past – but this lets people post their own videos from where ever they may be in the world.

Here’s a trailer:

And here’s the first question:

It already has some input and responses. How would you respond?

Hat tip to ChurchRelevance.com

Scoble working for John Edwards

Former Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble is about to leave PodTech.
He’s planning to announce his next position on Jan 15th.

Brian Bailey suggests that Scoble may be looking at going to work for the John Edwards campaign – depending on the results of the Iowa caucus. Edwards has been locked in 3rd place most of the election season. But he could still pull out a surprise in Iowa, knocking off Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Interesting. Very interesting.

Of course I still think Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee have the best online presences of the campaign – although Ron Paul’s camp isn’t doing most of theirs – it’s his supporters. The same for Mike Huckabee, except his campaign actually shares, posts and links to user created content, where as Paul almost seems to ignore the user created content.

Huckabee doesn’t seem like much of a dark horse anymore. Depending on the poll he’s clearly leading in Iowa and tied or leading the GOP race nationally. Paul on the other hand could still come out from behind and surprise everyone.

Should be interesting to see what happens on both the GOP and Dem side.

Re: Google releases Street View Dallas

Not that the picture in and of itself is spectacular – but here’s the spot where Laurie and I got engaged.
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You can barely make it out in this pic, but there’s a bench there which is where it all took place.

And here’s Cafe Brazil.
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One of my favorite hangouts in Dallas. Surprised my cars not there – granted it’s not normally there till after dark.