August 2008
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WatchLast night we went to the Fountain Theater in Hollywood to watch the reading of Yaz’s play “The William Saroyan Experience.” The reading was being sponsored by the ADAA as Yaz was a finalist in their Saroyan Prize for Playwriting. Many of our family and friends showed up to check it out. We all had a great time and the reading was very successful. The above clip is taken from a...
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fbCal.com - Facebook Calendar Generator →
This is really cool. This service will generate and iCal file (.ics) of the birthdays of people you are friends with on Facebook, which you can then import into you Google Calendar.
I like Facebook, but I don’t login every day. So, I don’t notice when people’s birthdays come and go. I do though always use my Google Calender, and sync it with my cell phone. BAM! I know all my...
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Phil Cooke: Leaders, Are Your Best Friends Your... →
I’m a big fan of this guy. He’s got a background in entertainment production, and Christian ministry. He usually comes at issues from a fresh and thought provoking perspective. In this post he’s brings up an important aspect of non-profit management, namely drawing the lines between our professional and personal lives. I’ve had both positive and negative experiences with...
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WatchToo much technolust is never a good thing, but I’ve been dreaming of Google Android for at least a year now, and I’m ready for it. Unfortunately there is speculation that it’ll only initially be available on T-Mobile inQ4 2008, but its an open platform, which kinda means that there should be a lot of options eventually.
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Diocesan Web Hosting Woes
Argh! For the past three weeks I’ve been struggling with problems with the Western Diocese’s Website, which I webmaster. I’ve had so much heartache over these problems. Ultimately, I decided to change hosts and move the website from site5 to Media Temple. Media Temple is quite a bit more expensive, but from what I’ve seen so far, its worth it. The server is at least 5 times...
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Blog Redux... The MicroBlog
The year was 2006, the web 2.0 revolution was well underway, the word “blog” was being used incessantly by the corporate news establishment, and I having many other more valuable things to do with my time decided to waste a good deal of it and publish a blog at mattash.com. The problem with blogs is that they only matter when you’ve got something that you not only want to say,...