all entries migrated
after several hours of cut-and-paste this week, I’ve got all the old blog entries migrated and entered into the latest and greatest blogging tool (personal publishing system, as the MovableType tagline would put it).. to look back, I started it all in June 1999 with Dreambook, a guestbook tool, chronicling my life as “an online journey”, and then meandered to pitas.com for a longer run, then to blogger.com (and then, Blogger Pro), and in July 2003, moving into MovableType.
had a phenominal meetup this morning with a sympathetic Asian American who is also marginalized, or shall I say double-marginalized.. neither of us fit in the typical Asian crowds, partly b/c we’ve rarely felt comfortable in the group-think, nor do we fit into mainstream America.. we shared our stories, called a few things like we see it, and it always perks my interest to find someone who is interested in how our faith is being lived and expressed through a local church, through events, through relationships, and through our vocation.. he’s one who gets it: we need to get more dialogue going, particularly among different Asian ethnicities, b/c we really do have more similarities than dissimilarities..
mobilizing mobs
came across www.flocksmart.com which brings people together virally for a syncronicity moment to do random acts of pseudo-weirdness, I like that; perhaps grew out of a grass-roots thingy at www.smartmobs.com (which is becomming a book), the Mob Project as written up in Wired and tal ked about on NPR
Seminary notices Asian Americans
[while djchuang.com is under renovation, I'll put this blog entry here for now]
Russell Yee posted this on Waterwind:
It’s generating a whole flurry of conversations, including this one from David Ro:
StrangeBanana automated web design
StrangeBanana hosts a computer-generated web design, automagically creates templates that have never been seen before and never seen again, unless someone, like you, saves it.
major renovation has begun
Thanks for stopping by, you’re getting a roughed-out view of the renovation that’s under way here at djchuang.com .. i’m folding in a number of blogs here into what I shall call a “metablog”, and then bloggerizing (is that a word?) the rest of the web site into a blog-driven engine, using MovableType.. and a new look-and-feel will be laid over this sometime in the coming weeks, hopefully before summer’s end. Along the migration process, found 123 Blogger Pro entries that weren’t linked in quite right (why didn’t someone tell me?), and I’m deliberating whether to salvage the old comments or not.. and, on the drive time this morning..
it’s the megachurch vs. neighborhood issue in the local news: Located just west of Tysons Corner, the church is already spending $92 million to build a 279,000-square-foot sanctuary — several times the size of a Target — and a double parking deck that will hold twice as many cars as a typical Macy’s garage. Every weekend, 8,000 to 9,000 people pour through its doors, with 13,000 attending on Easter. (also written up at ChurchCentral )
