alt.worship explosion... ...just kidding...the other day when I met with Stephen I obtusely referred to alt.worship and threw a few URL's out there for him. Well, he <a href="http://faithmaps.blogspot.com/">checked them out</a> and I must say I am pleasantly surprised. (He also blogrolled me and he also writes stuff I like to read, so Stephen I will be returning the favor soon.) Influence is a funny thing and maybe, just maybe, from up here, closer to people geographically, we will make some headway in creating viable worship in the U.S. (Although there was that feeling when we were in Florida that we were extra underground, being at the butt end of the country and all and creating these super transcending installations and moving ahead free of the church and its baggage...there's that part of me that doesn't want anyone over here to "get" it...that's Scott's influence :) ...who, BTW, moved <a href="http://gravattville.com">his blog</a> and of course never told anyone...) blogging... Through Stephen's blog I am also realizing that this little postmod xian community is making quite a big deal about this blogging thing. Don't worry, it'll wear off. :) Bigger point: content management and ease of publishing. The web made it somewhat easy, but now content management systems, of which Blogger and Movable Type and many many others (no time to share my multitude of links with you just yet) are some, abstract your design from your content creation. That's the key: seperate the content production (blogger interface) with the content display (blogger template). Except Blogger only goes so far. There are many other more usefull technologies. Like XML. All this to say that I am building a content management solution for <a href="http://islandwatersports.com">islandwatersports.com</a>. It happens to be built in Cold Fusion, but with the data stored in a database and XML. But I am going to create a portable content management system from my work for them and my work for danielsjourney. It will look like this: data gets stored in XML on your server. Data gets processed through PHP. Design stays in a template. Additional fields like title, image1, image2, link1, link2, etc. It would allow you to create an entire site updateable through one interface. A content management system, in other words. For example every area of my site will be based around this model, and anyone could pull the picture of the day, or the blog, or the daily serial off my site and use it on their site. I'm going to write a web interface for it to start with, but might write a desktop application which would let you write to your blog all day long offline, then upload all your updates at the end of the day when yer online. I'm also going to implement this at <a href="http://sevenmagazine.org">sevenmagazine</a>. All that to say, everyone might want to wait because it's going to rock; but I can't promise how soon I'll get it going and perfected. Right now I'm still working out the bugs in <a href="current.xml">my XML</a>/PHP blog (like permalinks)...but once it's done I would love to give it to a bunch of people to get the word out and perfect it further... Or you can just check out <a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">moveable type</a> or <a href="http://brandbenbrown.com/">ben brown</a>. Both seem good but not perfect for me (when I can write one myself). 78903781daniel millerSaturday, July 13, 2002publishjust realized my permalinks don't work ...add it to the list...<s>will notify when fixed</s>...just realized you'd notice pretty easily 78872909daniel millerFriday, July 12, 2002publishwondering where all those mean people are so far almost everyone i've met who's either in the FS or affiliated with them has been really nice, intelligent, and helpful. i'm wondering if our experience in you-know-where was an anomaly. 78870995daniel millerpublishhung out with other FSO students tonight at a happy hour at a pretty cul, unique bar. it was really great. these people have all traveled all over the world, many have advanced degrees, it is really an amazing group with many great stories to share. we laughed so hard at so many stories from India, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia...even somebody who had great advice on how to get inroads into the fiction publishing world... 78843947daniel millerThursday, July 11, 2002publish<a href="http://faithmaps.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_faithmaps_archive.html#78351065">emergesque</a> (2) :: was catching up a bit on Stephen's blog (didn't know he had one until today) and found this excellent review of Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (the Princess and the Warrior). Through his excellent links I found out that I had been poorly informed that Franka Potente (middle, below) had written and directed Run Lola Run and The Princess. Tom Tykwer (right, below) is the director. This serves as correction for all those I might have told the wrong thing. And go see The Princess. It's good. Read Stephen's review. <img src="http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/1030/potente_tykwer_furmann1.jpg"> 78829295daniel millerpublish<a href="http://faithmaps.blogspot.com/">emergesque</a> :: just met with Stephen Shields. thanks for lunch Stephen!! 78828605daniel millerpublishFYI. It's almost out: <a href="http://www.relevantstore.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32">RELEVANT store</a> 78817680daniel millerpublish<a href="miriam/">Miriam</a> posted the bid list... 78771938daniel millerWednesday, July 10, 2002publishBy the way, I posted that article about Iraq...let's just say you want to be paying close attention to that issue...all I can say... 78756967daniel millerTuesday, July 09, 2002publish<a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/europe_ref01.jpg">12 cities, 16 bids on this map</a> 78756589daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html">UT Library Online - Perry-Casta�eda Map Collection - Europe Maps</a> Awesome maps site for those following... This map has 6 of the cities we're bidding on, on it (click on it for the full size {which should have already loaded}): <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/balticseaarea.jpg"><img src="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/balticseaarea.jpg" width="312" heigh="394"></a> 78755322daniel millerpublish<a href="http://talesmag.com/rprweb/the_rprs/europe/realposts_vladivostok.html">Vladivostok:</a><blockquote>Single men will find themselves suddenly transformed into rock stars. Russian young women are predominantly quite beautiful -- and there is nothing they would like more than to take the next flight out of town on the arm of a Western man. A lot of Expats, Peace Corps workers, and the like, leave married...</blockquote> 78754982daniel millerpublishmore random links ...it's one of those times of tons of tre cul websites flying in front my face... <a href="http://www.epnworld-reporter.com/">http://www.epnworld-reporter.com/</a> <a href="http://www.nycbloggers.com/">http://www.nycbloggers.com/</a> <a href="http://www.scripting.com/">scripting news</a>: possibly the most famous weblog ever; i should have blogrolled this one long ago but never got around to it 78744566daniel millerpublish<a href="http://e-thepeople.org/a-national/article/11008/view">America, the Aggressor?</a><blockquote>Bush is staking out a position of America as a global aggressor. The New York Times just reported on detailed plans for a three-pronged, massive military assault on Iraq by our forces. I wonder how many citizens realize that is the FIRST battle plan created in the history of the U.S. in which America is the aggressor, rather than responding to a provocation or attack? Is this the direction in which we really want to go as a nation?</blockquote> 78744072daniel millerpublishthis is for me ...sorry, but I also use this blog for a remote note taking of sorts... but these may also be of some interest to you (and they let you know what I've been thinking about--for the last 5 mintues at least) ...these machines in the foreign service institute have a faster connection than any i've ever experienced, it's really bizzare, we must be sitting right on the backbone... too bad they don't have a public workgroup outside of their network but behind their routers...i don't see how that's less secure than logging me into this machine here...but that's JMHO... <a href="http://www.interaction.org/">http://www.interaction.org/</a> <a href="http://www.idealist.org/">http://www.idealist.org/</a> <a href="http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/sites.htm">nonprofit management eduction cntr</a> <a href="http://www.nonprofits.org/">http://www.nonprofits.org/</a> <a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/">open source intelligence</a> <a href="http://www.mapnp.org/library/finance/np_fnce/np_fnce.htm">non-prof finances</a> <a href="http://www.mapnp.org/">http://www.mapnp.org/</a> <a href="http://www.genie.org/">nonprofit genie newsletter</a> <a href="http://www.nonprofit.gov/">http://www.nonprofit.gov/</a> <a href="http://www.bizfilings.com/learning/nonprofitfaq.htm">http://www.bizfilings.com/learning/nonprofitfaq.htm</a> <a href="http://fdncenter.org/learn/faqs/starting_nonprofit.html">http://fdncenter.org/learn/faqs/starting_nonprofit.html</a> <a href="http://www.npguides.org/index.html">http://www.npguides.org/index.html</a> <a href="http://e-thepeople.org/">e-thepeople</a> 78744019daniel millerpublishreal quick anyone else having problems with my customization script? since i've gone to dial up it doesn't work. if it doesn't work for you let me know maybe your info will help in the debugging. i can see the cookie getting written to my machine; unsure why it's not updating. will try some more things... also i forgot to give credit to Miriam for the two pics from Dada's. the Red Lion pic was probly taken by Calvin's girl, Jen. 78735559daniel millerpublishno broadband for dannyboy...looks like i'm going to be sticking to dial-up for now; no special deals (although all broadband is cheaper up here than in FL); i'll wait to see how long we are in the area. anyway, blogger and email works ok over such a slow connection (as does danielsjourney, of course!). seems most of what I'm doing on the net is text. first time i want to upload a new song all will change... :) 78735116daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/">::� s e v e n m a g a z i n e� ::</a> <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/mike.html">Those</a> who undertake are regarded as radicals and mistrusted, but the process cannot be avoided... the new issue of seven is out... 78728545daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.next-wave.org/jul02/My_new_church.htm">My New Church</a> is in <a href="http://www.next-wave.org">Next-Wave</a> this month. Now I have to get crackin' on part 2 and 3!! 78683560daniel millerMonday, July 08, 2002publishToday, some ego: Pics from Dada's: <img src="images/dwm2_4web.jpg"> always providing a variety, reading from my fav mag, <a href="http://adbusters.org">Adbusters</a> <img src="images/dwm1_4web.jpg"> From <a href="http://christianpornmachine.com">CPM</a> Red Lion gig (2 gigs ago): <img src="images/dwm4_4web.jpg"> 78683421daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/jellis.html">Yahoo Kisses It All Good-bye</a><blockquote>in every quarter of 2001, Yahoo posted a loss. The promised turnaround wasn't forthcoming. And just charging for stuff wouldn't get it done. Something else was needed. So Yahoo decided to change its privacy policy, allowing it, as the Economist tartly put it, "to exploit users' personal information to market its own and business partners' products and services -- unless users take the trouble to opt out by ticking a long list of preferences." In other words, the greatest Internet company of its kind would become a direct-marketing and solicitation outfit, cold-calling families at dinnertime, spamming their email inboxes, and cluttering their mail with "targeted" appeals. In one fell swoop, Yahoo had done the impossible. On the one issue that most concerns Internet users -- privacy -- they had managed to allow Microsoft to occupy the moral high ground. Changing the Yahoo privacy policy was an unusually stupid decision -- not just from the standpoint of brand management. It was a stupid business decision, since it aligned the company against its extraordinary customer base</blockquote> 78648022daniel millerSunday, July 07, 2002publishThe interent: Got this in an email from my new suckie <a href="http://access4less.net">ISP</a>:<blockquote>P.S After trying our service please let all your friends and family about the great deal you found for internet access.</blockquote>(First off nice incomplete sentence.) Hmmm....let's see....for amazingly slow connection speeds circa 1994, no confirmation email whatsoever when you order, and a full 24 hour turnaround on any support request, sure if you're into total frustration and watching paint dry, please go ahead. 78647428daniel millerpublishOne important thing I forgot to blog: The song on the radio when we first pulled off the highway into Arlington on our roadtrip a week and a half ago: It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine. One more: While watching the fireworks from our balcony, Miriam singing Bocelli in her opera voice, with reverb off the building across the street. 78647124daniel millerpublish