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2006

156 posts

  2. Seattle Drupal-Camp Planning Meeting

    A few of us are getting together in Seattle on Wednesday, March 15th, to start planning a DrupalCamp for Seattle! All are welcome… We’re meeting upstairs at 1:30 at Caffe Vita in Capitol Hill: http://www.caffevita.com/location.html So far the people attending are: – Samantha Moscheck – Gregory Heller – Jakob Perry – Mike Moscheck — Seattle Drupal Developer Meeting What: Informal gathering and planning sessions Who: Drupal developers, implementors and professionals as well as people interested in learning more about Drupal. Goals: Meet each other, network, begin planning Drupal Camp Seattle.

  3. Why We Fight

    Last night I went to see the Eugene Jarecki documentary "Why We Fight" about America's propensity towards militarization and war. The film was disturbing. People will say it is “over the top” or slander it as “left wing liberal media propaganda”. Those people will continue to ignore the fact that there is something very…

  4. It's Been a while

    It has been a while since i have blogged over here. Things are great in seattle. I made a trip back to new york about a week or so ago (i guess two weeks now) and i'll be back in Ny in early April. I have been blogging more frequently over at CivicActions I'll…

  5. Productivity: Mozilla Thunderbird and Calendar enhancement Ideas

    I have been thinking about how i would improve Mozilla Thunderbird and calendar since before the GooToDo demonstration at BarcampNYC , but that really got my ideas swirling. Just yesterday, Hope and I were talking about email and productivity and the 800 messages in her inbox. So I started thinking a bit more about what I want from my email client and calendar tool. Email: I want to be able to tag (think del.icio.us, flickr, web2.0) my incoming email. I don’t want to have to move it into folders, and then remember where i put it it. I just want to tag it with the relevant keywords, and then be able to easily filter and search based on tags.

  6. Why We Fight

    Why We Fight Last night I went to see the Eugene Jarecki documentary “Why We Fight” about America’s propensity towards militarization and war. The film was disturbing. People will say it is “over the top” or slander it as “left wing liberal media propaganda”. Those people will continue to ignore the fact that there is something very wrong with a government that spends three quarters of a trillion dollars ($750,000,000,000) on its military each year. Which is more than on all other discretionary spending put together. When we put this into the context of the disaster in the Gulf Coast region, or the failings of our public schools, or the cuts to higher education funding, housing assistance, job training, health care…. well it just makes me want to throw up.

  7. Web Developer Death Match: Zack Rosen vs Jon Stahl!

    ( read in booming announcer voice ) “Good evening ladies and gentlement. Tonight, for your blood thirsty viewing pleasure, we have a death match of epic proportions! in one corner, hailing from the Pacific North West, ONE/Northwest’s Jon Stahl ! In the other corner from Saaaaaaan Fraaaaaanciiiiisssscoooooo…. CivicSpaceLab’s ZAAAAAACKKKKKK ROSEN !!!!”

  8. More on NYS and HAVA

    As one of our voter data experts, and being that New York is my home state, this article in the NYT is particularly… exciting? No. Disturbing? eh… maybe. Shocking? Not at all. As I said, NY is my home state! And having worked for the State Senate there is nothing surprising about the gridlock that has put the state in the position of being sued by the feds. I have posted about this before . Here are some excerpts from the recent article and some thoughts

  9. Drupal Professionals Shop Conference Call

    We just finished the first Drupal Professionals Conference Call. The Agenda was: 1) Introductions: Rep from each shop introduces and mentions any client funded module development, or other module development that folks might not know about (please limit to 3 to 5 minutes) 2) Discussions: a) Drupal Pros Directory (15) b) Drupal Camp Training (15) c) Contributing Back to the Drupal Community (15) d) Building shared support infrastructure for customers 3) Next Steps (planning next call, smaller working groups, etc) We had 21 total callers according to the conference call service.

  10. Return to sender….

    How many times have you received an email from a sender you don’t recognize about a website that you do recognize? More specifically, how many political emails (about candidates or otherwise) have you gotten that are sent by some staffer on the campaign who’s name is generally unremarkable? Well, i get dozens of political emails a week, many from NY State or city candidates. Recently a new name started popping up in my in box. lets just say the email address is “Sally.Smith@s68659.istandfor.com”, but then the from addres in the message header appears to be “Campaign Manager markgreenny@gmail.com”.