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 my folder when I moved everything over.

Which is unfortunate because Dreamost really really likes default.html files. In fact, it likes them more than index files of any extensions. So that default file (Welcome to Bluehost!) that you were all seeing this week? That meant everything was up and running at Dreamhost. Makes perfect sense, right?

And my cell phone died. Click to continue reading “And we’re back!”

I’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.

The window for voting is closed, and the top five from the Most Influential Living UU poll are:

1. Matt Groening. Creator of the Simpsons and Futurama. Last spotted in Springfield, USA. (9 votes out of 44.)
2. Keith Olbermann. MSNBC news host, vocal Bush critic, and former ESPN anchor. (8 votes.)
3. Tim Berners-Lee. Inventor of this here interweb thingy (sorry, Al) and head of the standard-setting W3C. (6 votes.)
4. Kurt Vonnegut. Award-winning novelist, satirist and social critic. (5 votes.)

And tying for fifth with four votes each were:

• Ysaye Barnwell.Member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, composer, actor, and children’s book author.
• Robert Fulghum. Minister and author of the best-selling All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

Thanks to everyone who voted. Polling for the final winner will go up in a couple of days. (I’m going to move to a new server between now and then.) Check back in or subscribe to my feed to stay in the loop.

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.”

Yup, Microsoft’s new “iPod killer” was easily topped by an iPod USB charger, not to mention the iPod itself. Gonna be a long climb up.

We have so many candidates that I’m starting it of with a sudden death elimination round. Vote for your favorite, and the five with the most votes will make it to the final round.

The poll will be open until Tuesday noon EST. You do not need to be Unitarian to vote. You may only vote once, and you may not change your vote. Click to continue reading “Vote! Most influential living Unitarian?”