Author: gregoryheller

Last night I was scheduled to fly from New York’s JFK to Seattle on JetBlue. As the storm clouds gathered and a crazy thunderstorm gathered over the NY region I called JetBlue’s automated flight status service and was surprised to hear my flight was still on time. That was at 6:10pm.

Ethan just sent an email out to the CivicActions team about an upcoming training in using OpenOffice, the Free software desktop office suite that most of us use.

Owen put up a website that uses a math problem to get people to think about a very important number, 350ppm CO2. I just turned is math problem into a short animated video using a website called GoAnimate.com. Watch my video below:

A few months ago I joined a new coworking space in Seattle, Giraffe Labs. Giraffe Labs grew out of a Seattle group called Saturday House. Well both got a mention on John Cook’s Venture Blog over at the Seattle PI. As founder Anders Conbere was quoted:

Yesterday while waiting at the Cancun airport with Aaron, Henry, Mirasol, Nedjo, Owen and Justine, a few of us got to talking about FriendFeed, Twitter and del.icio.us. Aaron and I are avid del.icio.us users, tagging all sorts of interesting sites. And we follow numerous lists and feeds thus pulling together some great information and redistributing…

A few months ago when I started using FF3 beta I was being driven mad by the default behavior of the browser when you clicked on the url in the address bar, a single click would highlight the entire url. Typically I click on the url with the intention of appending the url with something…

Wow, what a great 2 days! We had over 80 people show up over 2 days for some great sessions at DrupalCampSeattle. I think that the highlight, had to be Greg Dunlap’s Deploy Module Presentation, again! And of course some great hallway conversation and little show and tells. A big shout out to all the…

DrupalCampSeattle2008 started this morning at the Youngstown Arts Center in West Seattle. We have a great crew of folks here, and the sharing and learning is well underway. I just finished an intro to Drupal talk, it was billed as a “101” but I think that we hit some 102 and 103 level topics (CCK,…

This morning Mirasol pointed out on our team mailing list that Al Gore had thrown his support behind Barack Obama. Like Mirasol, I too received Al’s message in my in box this morning, and the image included in that message looked a little strange.

Last night some folks from the SeaDUG got together and we banged out the rest of the Seattle.Drupal-Camp.org. CivicActions is really happy to be a sponsor of this event, and out entire Seattle crew (myself, Robin and Jared) are working on various aspects of the camp. An early thanks to our early sponsors Hazel Consulting,…