Vision trips around SoCal

Stopped in on 2 events with the ISAAC summer immersion program this week – a panel discussion on Wed night about the contemporary Chinese church, and right now in a site visit to NewSong.

The group of about 20 have gone around many Asian communities during the week, learning, listening, eating, discussing, experiencing how life is lived on the margins. One person said after going thru Chinatown and J town that she’d never see things the same again. That speaks to this being a powerful experience. Great job ISAAC team!

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First impressions of life in the OC

Not one to rely on 1st impressions, I still do have them. Having been here for 3 weeks intermingled with 2 weekends of travels, here are my impressions so far after moving into our new apt home this past Monday sans furniture:

Freeway driving on wider roads either exceeds avg flow of 70 mph or is jammed with traffic

Lots of time spent driving just to get around (can’t walk to get around, tho’ people do walk or jog for exercise) to cover the wide expanse of Orange County, not to mention even more time to get around SoCal places like LA or inland empire as they call it

Sunny weather year round makes for lost sense of time’s passing and sunburns come easy – just a few hours will get you to being near well done

No reason to eat at franchises when there’s so much local flavor and ethnic variety (I still use Yelp to vet the places)

Using a Blackberry makes for shorter emails and shorter blog posts

And, keeping an eye on the sad news of Korean hostages in Afghanistan, one already impatiently killed. Eugenecho.wordpress.com has latest updates. Not much dialog in the blogosphere. Anti-Christian sentiment being reported on chosun.com and ohmynews.com, home of citizen journalism.

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[update] rats, the attempted post via my Blackberry was all garbled gobblygook; had to make corrections above from sent mail folder… sigh

Wordpress fix for blog post via email

It takes an extra effort to post a blog entry via email b/c it requires a “ping” (of wp-mail.php) and a glitch (bug) in wordpress 2.2.x – if this post goes thru, then there is a fairly easy fix using 2 plugins. I’ll update this post with the how to…

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[update] when this post was originally made via email, it only had the title (which was the email’s subject line) and blank content with the entry (even though the email had the above in the message body; I had to copy/paste after the fact). So, all this to say, it’s rather involved to fix WordPress 2.2.1 so that it can post via e-mail. What I did to fix blog by email:

1. Downloaded WP-Cron-Mail Modified plugin
2. Installed 2 plugins included in that ZIP and activated them
3. Modify the /wp-includes/class-pop3.php according to igudo’s code fix for lines 367-379 <- this one worked for me! ** oops, I spoke too soon; this fix only works sometimes for me *
4. Also tried solution for wp-mail.php fix in line 116 [not 165] from peymano, but that didn’t work either
5. Alternatively, there is a patch at WordPress Trac 4337, but I don’t know how to patch
6. note: the shorter fix from martinauer’s comment in this support thread to delete line 372 <- this did not work for me

If there’s an easier way to do all of this to get it working, please add a comment here. Appreciate the help!