Hey, I just got notified that my application to be an editor in the dmoz.org project has been accepted. I’ve sent in four or five applications over the past four years or so. The first few applications were rejected outright–I think they were for the human resources or organizational development categories. Last month I applied for the financial aid category and was told that the category was too broad for a newbie editor and that I should consider something a little more narrowly focused. Hey, nothing’s more narrowly focused than Newberg, right? 🙂 So I applied to be the editor of the “Regional: North America: United States: Oregon: Localities: N: Newberg: Business and Economy” category. And now I am. See for yourself at the bottom of this page.

Next on my ToDo list is world domination.

So, I’m reading Tricia’s new book and generally enjoying it. It’s leading me in all sorts of interesting directions–some new, some familiar. Stringfellow (and here) is one of the new directions. Eberhard Arnold is one of the familiar ones. Arnold’s book Salt and Light is just fantastic. You can get a free version as a pdf here.

Man, I wish I could make it to this…

7 p.m. Friday, June 4, Hollywood Theater
Hammersurf, a Northwest surfboard company, put out a call for original footage featuring surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Ten films were selected to screen at “Proven in the Northwest,” a benefit for Skaters for Portland Skateparks. Look for “O.T.” which chronicles a group of over-30 skate rats from Portland. The friends began skating plywood halfpipes in the 1980s, and the film captures their trajectories from skate punks to responsible fathers and husbands who still skate.

Hollywood Theater
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
503-803-4668
$5-$7

PS- Don’t forget the after-party.

I found an RSS parser that would display the Link Harvest over there on the right side of this page. It works well as long as posts don’t contain html, quotes or apostraphes. Guess I *really* need to figure out how to make Magpie work. I kinda, sorta got it working a few days ago, but by now I’ve forgotten everything I learned. Sigh.

I finished fixing up the Link Harvest page and rss feed. I don’t know why I spent so much time on it, since nobody will ever visit the page or read the rss. It was a good learning experience, I guess. The page layout and colors are utilitarian and uninspiring, but they do the trick. The search function works better than MT ever did and I was pleased to be able to work out at dropdown solution for the archives–that’ll be showing up on this page once I’m able to import all the previous entries.

Next step is to get the Link Harvest feed displaying on this page. I guess there are some tricks to make a single WP blog do double duty as both a regular blog and a link blog. Something to do with categories and how/where they display. Whatever…it’s too confusing for me, so I just set up a fresh blog for the Link Harvest and I’ll display the feed over here.

Something happened with Movable Type on the pintglass server. I still don’t know what it was…could have been something that the webhost did. I dunno. But that left me with a choice: I could try to figure out the problem with MT, or I could move this blog to another piece of software. Since the blowup with MT happened, I’d kinda played with the idea of moving to different software. But I liked MT so much that I figured I’d stay on that old version until it either stopped working, or wasn’t able to provide the functionality I wanted. Until then, I didn’t want to deal with the extra work of figuring out new software. So MT promptly stopped working. 🙁

For the most part, this post convinced me to move to WordPress, and educated me about GPL software. I’ve been happy enough with it, though I don’t like dealing with the new learning curve. WordPress does pretty much what MovableType did. It also does some cool stuff with RSS feeds… There is a ton of development action happening with WP, so I’m sure I’ll have plenty of things to play with.