tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:05:05 +0000The primary purpose for this blog is to gather feedback regarding various online projects, occasional general thoughts regarding Unitarian Universalism may get thrown in.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)Blogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-3091141105942511632Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:00 +00002009-10-23T08:38:32.030-05:00UUpdatesThe hosting company providing services for UUpdates migrated the system to a new server. Ever since then I was looking for a new hosting company. I did find one, but things did not work out well. So, I am making my way through any issues that I find with the site currently to fix it post migration.It looks like finding a new host might be difficult. The site has enough activity that the basichttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2009/10/uupdates-site-maintenance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-3449907185490425017Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:00 +00002009-09-12T21:01:26.674-05:00UUpdatesUUDue to some server issues, migration, etc. etc. I got a tad behind on adding entries to UUpdates. One blog seems to be updated fairly regularly, and the particular post of interest is no longer current I thought I would link to it here. Check out this post on growing religion through social media.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2009/09/since-this-posted-while-ago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-3811218409404312649Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:40:00 +00002009-09-03T22:55:05.899-05:00UUTechieAnyone have suggestions for a good hosting company? My current hosting company has annoyed me for the last time. It is more than time to move on. Requirements include:Would be nice if they were a "green" host. Run on wind power or some such.Need at least 2-3 GB of bandwidth per month. Thousands of visitors and all the fetching traffic add up.PHP/MySQL are absolute musts fewer the http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2009/09/hosting-company-recommendations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-4088054500390634433Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:23:00 +00002009-09-03T21:26:43.918-05:00UUpdatesThere may be minor interruptions as UUpdates is migrated to a new server. The hosting company that I am currently using (I will be asking for recommendations for a new host in a later post) was bought out and the servers got migrated despite my selecting the "I will do this manually option".Hopefully things will be straightened out shortly.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2009/09/minor-interruptions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-1480718421623547041Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:30:00 +00002009-01-21T22:39:31.814-06:00UUBlog AwardsHowdy folks, a bit of a late start on the blog awards this year...Last year I remember thinking when I saw Aaron Sawyer blog post about presenting at an award show how uninteresting an awards show would be if the accounting firm of "so and so" simply walked on stage, thanked everyone, then tacked up the winners on a poster board. This seems to me to be what I have been doing with the blog awardshttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2009/01/fifth-annual-uu-blog-awards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-7083014548197002271Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:34:00 +00002008-11-13T07:51:33.286-06:00UUpdatesTechieIf you have checked out UUpdates in the past on a mobile phone like the iPhone, then you might want to check it out again. I won't go into the technical details (unless asked), but suffice it to say it should look much better now that I have been able to look at it myself.I recently got a G1 Google phone and I have to say I am very impressed with the idea of cloud computing. Within minutes of http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/11/uupdates-small-screen-rendering.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-4115274129957711834Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:42:00 +00002008-07-28T18:57:58.887-05:00UUI saw the following suggestion in FaceBook. I thought it was worthwhile to pass along.Please send paper cranes to the children of TVUUCIt is a very tangible way to show the children how many people are thinking and praying for them.The address isTennesee Valley UU Churchc/o Brian Griffin, DLRE2931 Kingston PikeKnoxville, TN 37919I got the idea from a Fred Small song "Cranes Over Hiroshima" whichhttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-children-of-knoxville.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-3235168069612552228Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:49:00 +00002008-02-16T05:53:09.104-06:00The winners of the Fourth Annual UU Blog Awards have been posted. Congratulations to all our winners and nominees, and thanks to all who have participated in the process.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/02/uu-blog-awards-winners.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-5141860314419078955Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:49:00 +00002008-01-29T00:15:07.711-06:00Blog AwardsThanks to everyone who took the time to show their appreciation for our UU bloggers by nominating their work for consideration in the awards. A special thanks from me for those who helped pre-sort posting by identifying posts you thought were good candidates for specific topics, and to all those who used the select features instead of writing in blog names.Please take some time to review the http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/01/uu-blog-awards-nominations-closed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-1612669752848079623Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:37:00 +00002008-01-17T18:54:45.222-06:00Blog AwardsPrimarily based on discussion from last years process I am planning on dropping two of the categories. The Group blog category and the best commenter. I would love to hear other opinions on this and am certainly willing to be swayed. I am not sure the potential pool for the group blog has grown, and perhaps it has even shrunk with Coffee Hour remaining defunct. Fuuse deserves much credit for http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/01/fourth-annual-uu-blog-award-categories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-8307833260321619848Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:12:00 +00002008-01-16T22:23:43.201-06:00Blog AwardsWell, it's getting to be about that time, perhaps a little past even, for the UU Blog Awards. I am working through things and setting up the pages for this years process. So, might be a good time to start thinking about those favorite posts you've read and perhaps for bloggers to remind others of their favorites with some year in review round ups.I am hoping to finish things up shortly, but http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-awards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2575596551276514048Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:42:00 +00002007-11-04T16:47:12.027-06:00UUpdatesSo, my company is bought and it's the big move weekend. This means disconnecting all the servers trucking them to another city, setting everything up and spending a lot of time fixing anything that's broke. Long weekend with 14+ hour days at work.None of this had anything to do with why UUpdates wasn't available, that I could have planned for, but wouldn't you know it the hosting provider http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/11/uupdates-stalled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-9009958476522202146Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:00:00 +00002007-10-31T08:04:15.350-05:00MusicUUTime for another seasonal plug for a UU musician:John's Garden by Peter MayerFarmer John wandered backAnd when he reached the pumpkin patch, began to speakHe said “the weather’s getting colderSummer’s over and it’s almost HalloweenThat’s the day, the reason you were raisedWhen everything about your life will change You will have eyes to see, and for that night, you’ll be A bright lamp burning in http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/10/smile-bright-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-893188603294513020Fri, 25 May 2007 04:35:00 +00002007-05-24T23:38:53.778-05:00UUpdatesThe ISP let me know that my site, and most of it's settings had been migrated. I have managed to mostly get things running, but you may notice some odd behavior. If you do please let me know, like strange characters, sites not updating, etc. I have been working through a list of errors I have noticed.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/05/server-upgrade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-9156486040428477765Thu, 10 May 2007 01:55:00 +00002007-05-09T22:35:26.731-05:00UUAs a follow up to Church with an Infant I'd like to share some thoughts about bringing older kids to Sunday services. I'll start with my experience growing up. I was raised a Catholic, and attended Catholic school. So five days of religious education was deemed plenty and I did not have to attend Sunday school. Of course for the Catholic church attending Sunday school did not mean missing the http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/05/kids-in-church.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-3782769158438061378Wed, 09 May 2007 01:40:00 +00002007-05-08T23:55:40.562-05:00UUMy wife has been on the path to UU ministry for about a decade now, she says she is on the turtle track. During this time we have traveled to many congregations where my wife preached. We also had two daughters and that gave me the opportunity to care for my young daughters at several different congregations and see how different congregations handle things.Did I stick the kids in the nursery?http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/05/church-with-infant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2428572846371675277Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:31:00 +00002007-04-01T15:58:02.437-05:00UUSo, for the folks who have been long time visitors to UUpdates and formerly "What's New With UU?" you may recall that I had done some minor April fools jokes. This year I decided to take it one step further and actually invite someone who knows how to write an actual article. The basic gist of the idea being "What would happen if the folks at the Onion took over UU World?"I think I managed to http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-website.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-7167516605209782920Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:28:00 +00002007-03-01T17:03:00.055-06:00UUpdatesA three column format seemed inappropriate when most folks simply are there to click through to the latest updates. All the menu options (and a bunch more) are still there. If you notice any "buggy" behavior with the new software let me know. I'll highlight individual features in new blog posts.http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/03/site-redesign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-6759994613771981505Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:16:00 +00002007-02-28T19:32:10.302-06:00UUpdatesI am almost ready to release the new UUpdates. Two changes have been made to the current site and will carry over into the new one:First is a set of optimizations to the database. I did some things to make results faster, and some of you may have noticed the total page count was lowered. By looking at the web traffic I noticed that people are far more interested in the latest information thanhttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/02/enhancements.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-8184042035481018424Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:50:00 +00002007-02-19T09:46:35.777-06:00UUAs many of you already know The Rev. Victoria Weinstein has been generating publicity with her PeaceBang's Beauty Tips For Ministers.So, is there the potential for starting a series of blogs here? Similar to how there is a series of "[insert blank] for Dummies" (no correlation intended). As others have noted it is good publicity to have the "The Rvda. Weinstein victory" which I assume to be ahttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/02/insert-blank-for-ministers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2701960814299308126Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:40:00 +00002007-02-18T20:00:13.838-06:00UUpdatesLike Ms. Kitty I am thrilled to be mentioned in the latest UU World. more specifically UUpdates.net and not my blog. After the UU Blog Awards I got a bit of a bug to work on a redesign and finally kicking out some new functionality. It's not there yet, but in anticipation I wanted to share one thing I have finally settled on, a new logo/chalice.The chalice idea is basically an inversion of an http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/02/new-chalice-coming-soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2140337874446745435Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:57:00 +00002007-02-03T00:04:58.082-06:00Blog AwardsJust a basic post to get feedback on the blog award process. What can be done better next year? It's an evolving process.Should we have nominations, and then a run off to determine the five (at most) for voting? Or do folks like the long lists of potential vote getters?Would it be easier for people to submit specific posts to an e-mail address? It might help by giving me a way to respond to http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/02/third-annual-uu-blog-awards-feedback.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-8773378672645930377Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:37:00 +00002007-02-02T23:56:16.787-06:00UUBlog AwardsThere is a reason that t-shirts declaring "World's Best Mom/Dad" can be mass produced. There is no absolute criteria by which something like that can be judged. We all have our own opinions of what is important in determining what is best. What makes an anecdote great? That it touches your heart? Gives a new perspective? Moves your soul? However the lack of an absolute criteria does not makehttp://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/02/third-annual-uu-blog-award-winners.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2824142444341415685Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:56:00 +00002007-01-29T10:06:20.673-06:00UUBlog AwardsAs others have noted, the blog award voting has opened and the votes are rolling in. The threshold has been broken and the vote totals are now being revealed.Good luck to all our nominees!http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/01/third-annual-blog-award-vote-totals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082528.post-2778410043166169385Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:20:00 +00002007-01-26T16:35:19.522-06:00UUBlog AwardsThe countdown to the opening of the voting for the Third Annual UU Blog Awards has begun. Last year opening and closing the voting period was a manual process making it hard to communicate a time (had an issue with nominations for this year as well). I wasn't sure when I would be sitting there ready to go. So this year the timing is all automated. Oh, and some folks liked watching the vote http://uupdater.blogspot.com/2007/01/third-annual-blog-award-countdown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (UUpdater)3