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Listening Selections To Keep You Occupied
Since I’m far too busy redesigning Plasticmind.com to write a post, I thought I’d hook everyone up with some sermon podcasts you may find helpful: Fish Like You Mean It – August 12, 2007 Pastor Jesse’s Ordination Service – July 29, 2007 – Carl Barr, Dan Skogen and Keith Gardner (Don’t miss this one, there... Read More
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A Brief Review of Movable Type 4.0
Clearly, this new release from Six Apart is monumental. Massive changes to both the interface and the innards make this a drastically new product for them. If you’ve not yet downloaded it, it doesn’t cost you anything. Action Oriented Interface Movable Type 3.x was primarily object oriented: entries, comments, templates. Movable Type 4, on the... Read More
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Shiny, happy people will enjoy this Movable Type wallpaper: /assets/lovabletype-1680.png /assets/lovabletype-1280.png /assets/lovabletype-1024.png /assets/lovabletype-800.png
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Tricking RightFields Into Showing Your Extra Fields First
Kevin Shay’s RightFields is probably one of my most-used plugins for Movable Type, and thanks to Kevin’s help I came up with a unique solution to a problem I was facing. RightFields lets you rename the standard fields (entry body, extended entry, etc.), but I had a strange situation today where I needed to keep... Read More
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Ok, here we go. I’m pulling down the blog until the new design is in place. Upheaval, I tell you, upheaval!
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Things are awry here at PlasticMind! First, I’ll begin with the obligatory gaudy “Under Construction” sign. Poor guy reminds me of the poopsmith. I almost can’t bear to put this up here. I don’t even want to look at my own blog anymore. But here goes nothing: I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t bear to... Read More
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What I Learned In A Field of Sugar Cane
I’ve already talked at length about some of the things we did over in the Philippines; but I’ve not addressed the greatest lesson I learned. The man who taught me the most was a man named Pastor Rey. While we were in the Philippines, Pastor Rey had a stroke. It’s his third stroke in two... Read More
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Saturday was rough. Sunday was worth it. The ordination service on Sunday was awesome. Carl Barr, a long time friend and evangelist, directed a challenge to me personally while my dad gave a powerful ordination message. Then when I knelt as the guys came around to pray over me, the whole church rumbled with a... Read More
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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
Please excuse any mess you see around here in the next week or so. I’m finally unifying my Movable Type installs (why, oh, why did I ever fork them!) and then upgrading to MT4. Things that you should notice broken: Code snippets, comment ability, etc. If you do come across something that isn’t the way... Read More
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Using The Style Archive With Movable Type 4
In the Movable Type Support Forums, Gingermonkey asked a question that will become more and more relevant as the official release of Movable Type 4 draws near: “After reading that MT4 supports previous versions templates, I have been trying to get templates from thestylearchive.com to work. MT4 is able to connect to the thestylearchive.com, view... Read More
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It’s 1:50 a.m. on a Friday night Saturday Morning. My ordination council begins in 9 hours, but I can’t sleep. My mind is a whirlwind of TULIP’s and canon’s, common grace and dispensations, inspiration and preservation. Dad was good enough to give me his questions early. They’re really good and, as usual, thought provoking. I’m... Read More
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Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach
Adam Cleaveland from Cleave Design sent over this question, and I thought it was particularly relevant, especially in light of the new approach Movable Type 4 takes with it’s default templates: “I am having a very hard time understanding the “Templates” within MT. I’m used to just being able to make a change within the... Read More
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“Home is the really important thing, and always will be.” -G.K. Chesterton A fond thank you to everyone who asked about the trip. We’ve been back home a few days now, but I cannot explain how hard it’s been to recover from jet lag. The 12 hour time change took maybe one day to get... Read More
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I must have drank some of the water… Last night, I felt terrible. My stomach was knotting up, I was shaky and I had a fever half the night. All because of a lousy little organism. (I’m feeling much better after 12 hours of sleep.)
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The trip is going well. Tonight I experienced the most meaningful moment of the trip so far, but I’ll save it for another post because I don’t have the energy to give it the attention is deserves. We did have some other memorable moments today: 1. Tonight, on the way up to the mountain village... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
