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I saw Al Gore’s movie on global warming last night. The basic message wasn’t news to me, but the potency of the presentation made a deep impression. This is more than a movie- it’s arguably the reference presentation of one of the defining issues of our times. It should be seen by any citizen of the world in the 21st century. We can help it reach it’s deserved place as part of our common culture by seeing it and encouraging friends and acquaintances to see it and spread the word.

For the website. Actually, more like moving week, or even month. Up until now, we’ve been serving this site from a small VPS (virtual private server) in the UK, and our early hooze and intogreater work from our office. This week we’re finishing up the move to a new “homemade” server hosted at StepHouse.net in Portland, OR. We’re sharing the server with Brandon Sanders- board member, major donor, and close friend of Grass Commons.

As with our office server, Cecil Strange was instrumental in the collecting and assembling of the hardware- we got an old 2U rackmount server with SCSI backplane and mounting rails for $50 at surplus gizmos, and after removing the previous innards proceeded to literally hammer the case into shape with a big copper mallet in Cecil’s garage. Brandon set to work with the sheet metal break, and I stripped and crimped wires for a power supply harness… There will probably come a day when I can’t “afford” the time to do custom hardware work anymore, but for now I’m glad I get to enjoy learning how things work and seeing the pieces come together.

This is my first blog entry ever. I’m testing out our upgrade to Drupal 4.6.5. It seems to have worked.