Tag Archive for 'nerding'
Hi. So my dear friend Jason lent me a dell laptop which I have just installed Windows XP SP2 Professional on. This is significant because I have no laptop right now. The only thing is, I am a total dunce when it comes to networking and I can’t figure out how to get it to connect to my home wireless network. This is, as you can imagine, totally ruining everything in the world. Is anyone out there a super genius who can help me connect? The little icon that normally appears that lets you look for wireless networks isn’t apearing, which is totally cramping my style.
(from maryland bridge, john k samson)
anyway!
so i’m in the process of moving my organization’s website from (proprietary hell) convio crm and cms tools to drupal & democracy in action. i’m working with these incredible designers and developers called floatleft and vernal creative. i’ve been really really skeptical of drupal in the past, but i feel like the issues with nonprofits and drupal primarily stem from orgs having very small web budgets and not being able to afford support & customization. so, i enter this drupal build with caution, but since we’re putting a solid chunk of cash into it, and working with trusted developers & designers i feel like we’re in great shape.
we’re also using democracy in action as a CRM. right now convio charges about 50K per year simply to maintain their service as a cms and crm. DIA however, charges $2000 to install and then $400 or $500 for maintenance. pretty cool.
i’m psyched to be bringing an open source platform into my work and i’m psyched to build with the folks i’m working with. i would use wordpress if i was building a blog, but given the kind of organization i’m building for, i think drupal is a good fit.
AND…Williamsburg matches today! He he he. Today I am working from home but our wireless is out so I’m across the street at Atlas.
[Update, 11amish]: 8 mac laptops here now, 1 Dell.
[Update, 12:09pm]: 13 mac laptops here now, zero PCs. Also, my pinky is freezing. I don’t type with the right pinky usually. Working from home rules.
[Update: 12:45pm]: Guy walks into Atlas who has tied his dog up outside. The dog is muzzled and wearing a keffiah. Ah Williamsburg.
[Update: 1:09pm]: It’s like zero degrees in Atlas. There are some creepy realtors across the aisle from me.
[Update: 2:22pm]: It’s 24 degrees outside and it feels like it in atlas too. Meh. I should take lunch. One dell, 11 Macs.
[Update: 4:36pm}: Ate some pierogies and went to Lucky cat. They're shooting a film called Pride and Glory on my street. I am the only mac user here, along with a huge glossy screened hp PC laptop. I walked Aparna through the glory of file transfer protocol on the phone. Woot!
in case you were wondering anything ever.
and to think all this time i didn’t even know you had made me a little avatar and a blogroll link. you’re the best.
look what VEEBS made:
OH man!!!! Have you tried to import a NEW blogger blog to wordpress ever? it’s like, welcome to hell, no “one-click” nothing for you. I got SCAMMED by a developer who made an import script that embedded advertising for his blog in every single post. the code for that wasn’t even visible in his import file. terrible. i had to suicide the whole blog. crap. let me know if you have any genius workarounds, because i’ve tried a bunch of options which are NOT working. the best i have found so far is this, but it hasn’t worked yet either.
oh man i am so psyched. i just figured out how to make a favicon and put it in my browser. hell yeah.
here’s my little guy: 
Alana Post posts this: (latepass, i know. it was posted in june or something)
tee hee.
So! Hello world! Antleredlife has just switched over from blogger to wordpress. Whew! It was so big that I had to get a real wordpress whiz to help me import all the 2 years worth of antleredlife to my new hosting. But now antleredlife is going to be much more awesome. My pictures are way bigger now and I don’t have that annoying thing where it says antleredlife.com and nothing else in your browser despite where you click. My friend Jason was up late last night importing all the stuff from blogger and he’s the best!!! He’s also a fucking slamming designer, in case you were wondering. Thanks Jason!! It’s going to take me a minute to get my blogroll back up and running and to design a new banner for my site. Yay!!!
I just don’t identify any more. My electronic life is whittling. Maybe soon I will decide not to have a top anything anymore.
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