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famous-unitarians, influence
Does influence matter?
12.09.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsOf course. That’s why they call it influence, isn’t it? The influence of prominent Unitarians is a benchmark of how we’re doing as a movement. It’s a window into what we’re up to now. Which isn’t to say that we know how well we’re doing by how many famous people we produce. By that logic, […]
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death_match, famous-unitarians, iron_cage, keith-olbermann, kurt-vonnegutt, matt-groening, tim-berners-lee
Vote!! It’s the Most Influential Living Unitarian Iron Cage Death Match of Death!!™
12.07.06 | Permalink | 26 CommentsVoting is closed! Click here for the final results! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! It’s time for the Most Influential Living Unitarian Iron Cage Death Match of Death!!™ (Two deaths, because it’s just that deadly.) Last week we separated the merely Unitarian from the super Unitarian. (Burn, Unitarian chaff! Burn, I say!) And so […]
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bluehost, dreamhost
And we’re back!
12.07.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on And we’re back!Dear god in Montana that took a while! And on top of that my cell phone died. Apparently, Bluehost puts in a defalt.html file by, uh, default. But when you put in an index file (of any extension) it defaults to the index file. Got that? I didn’t even know there was a default.html in […]
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Moving to a new server
12.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Moving to a new serverI’ll be moving over to Dreamhost, so comment left between now and the time my next post shows up will disappear into the ineffable innards of the internet abyss.
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famous-unitarians
And the winners are…
12.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on And the winners are…The window for voting is closed, and the top five from the Most Influential Living UU poll are: Matt Groening. Creator of the Simpsons and Futurama. Last spotted in Springfield, USA. (9 votes out of 44.) Keith Olbermann. MSNBC news host, vocal Bush critic, and former ESPN anchor. (8 votes.) Tim Berners-Lee. Inventor of this […]
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tim-o'reilly, volunteers
Volunteers or staff?
12.04.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Volunteers or staff?Says net guru Tim O’Reilly (on Open Source software projects, but this could just as well apply to nonprofits and churches): “A passionate volunteer is actually worth more than a paid person. If you can get them — if you can’t, then paying people is a good second choice.”
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