Faraway, So Close

This email from a friend (who had no idea of my involvement or lack thereof with the website in question) made my week:
“Why does Forest Grove’s website kinda suck now? What is this annoying “I bought my website at monstertemplates.com” flash menu doing on here?”
I offer no further comment because of something someone told [...]

Movie title sequences are one of those things you notice when they’re really, really good. Art of the Title is a great website for finding and being inspired by great title sequences, past and present, including High Fidelity (links to quicktime file).

A gravatar is “quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.” If you sign up at gravatar.com with the email address you most commonly give when leaving comments on blogs and upload your picture to the site, whenever you [...]

For any of my friends/family who are using Wordpress currently, here’s a look at changes coming in the next version, 2.7, due out late November ‘08. (The current version you have is likely 2.6.x)

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I got word today that I wasn’t chosen to look after our church’s website. Obviously that kind of sucks as I was looking forward to possibly being actually paid to do something I’ve been doing on a volunteer basis for the last few years. Without going into great detail, it’s frustrating as one [...]

Yeah, I decided to try out a new design today and it might have stuck. It’s a beautiful (IMHO) Wordpress 2.6 theme designed by Darren Hoyt and co that’s got the web 2.5 buzz word in mind - lifestreaming. Really it’s just whatever-you-decide-to-put-on-the-net-streaming. So over in that little “Find me Elsewhere” box [...]

Let this be a lesson to you all to not do what I did. If you think you have a great idea that couldn’t possibly have been taken already, just double check google once more before committing to the idea.

Last night while we were eating we were discussing keeping a food diary to help [...]

This post, of course, runs counter to the previous post where I talk about not buying stuff. How about we come to a happy medium? You just buy me stuff - that way I’m not being greedy and consumeristic. Everyone wins!

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It’s straight out of Lord of the Rings and that’s probably part of the reason why I’d love to live in this house if it was feasible in our arctic climate here. I guess I’m just a hobbit at heart.