Matthew Zimmerman

You mean I have to keep writing stuff for this???

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:32:00 EST

Well, I'm doing a great job keeping this thing up so far, aren't I? Admittedly spring is an unusually busy time. In the next two months, I plan to go to (at least) two crystallography meetings, a backpacking trip, my church's 50th anniversary celebration, a wedding, a choir reunion, and play city league softball. So I hope you don't mind if I whine, whine, whine. (I would like some of the fish with my whine, thank you. Perhaps the halibut?) Worry not, I have plenty of those semi-literate rants, and I will subject you to them soon enough.

Incidentally, if you happen to be near Huntingdon, PA on March 27th at 7:30 pm or near the National Cathedral on April 18th at 10:30 am, you should really check the Juniata concert choir out. If you come to the one in D.C., you'll have to put up with us creaky alumni too, so I especially suggest the March homecoming concert: it is always very moving. I haven't heard a Juniata choir concert myself for a while but Russ Shelley always does a suberb job putting the choir together. Plus you should buy a CD!

On an unrelated note, I've turned the comments feature off. I have heard ugly rumors about comment spamming of Moveable Type weblogs and I must admit to great fear of my comment fields filling with ads for Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes, and nekkid women. I get enough of that in my inbox. I'm almost positive that nobody reads this thing but if you really want comments, drop me an email (mzimmerman@virginia.edu) and let me know.

Just testing

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:40:00 EST

Just throwing up an addional entry up to see how it is handled.

Jumping on the bandwagon

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 16:04:00 EST

So I'm joining the Wesley Foundation blogging movement. Dozens of current Wesley students and alumni have started weblogs in the past year, and I'm starting to feel left out. See David Vaughn's, for example-- his weblog is really well done and has links to most of the rest.

I'm trying something different, though-- I installed Moveable Type on my own web account rather than using a hosting service like Blogspot (which appears to be the Wesley service of choice). Two motivations for this: first, I can replace my current webpage with the new blog and not confuse people with multiple URLs, and two, give it a try in case we would like to install it on the main Wesley site. I hope to eventually move the content of the old site over into this one, so don't worry (like any of you care, anyway).