Two Peas in a Pod
23Sep/110

Let me explain cricket… the easy way!

England U19 v Pakistan U19

There are two sides, one out in the field the other one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

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21Sep/110

Crazy Churches: Places that I could worship in!

I haven't posted much in the last few months - been much busy at work, and also in our new church plant, Vantage Pointe, where I am the Director of Communications & New Media.

I was also doing some Stumblin' (www.stumbleupon.com) which is a much more productive waste of time over the likes of Facebook!

I was Stumblin' "Church" and came across the following buildings. Some are imposing, some just out there, and some just so cool you love them at first sight.


Duomo (Milan Cathedral) in Italy


Chapel of St. Gildas, Brittany, France


Las Lajas Cathedral in Colombia


Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, (Cundinamarca, Colombia)

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13Mar/110

Parentology with Paula – Charlotte’s Story

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This morning, Charlotte's Story aired on channel CW15 Albany on the Parentology with Paula show.

We had been interviewed by show reporter Aliz Koletas toward the end of February, in what was a great sit down interview style recording.  We covered all that we went though back at the start of 2009, just two short years ago.

We are thankful for the opportunity to be able to share Charlotte's Story, and are grateful that Parentology with Paula gave us that opportunity.  Thank you!

22Feb/110

Setting up a FrontPage Site and got this error…

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DISCLAIMER: FrontPage Server Extensions is not my choice in this project.  The end-user has Microsoft Expression Web, so this is how the site is being done.

29Jan/110

Using TortoiseGit and Dreamweaver

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We have bee using Git to some extent at work (Mannix Marketing, Inc.) for a while, and I though that it was high time that I start to do the same at home on personal projects.

Git is a FREE an open source, distributed version control system that is designed to handle everything from small to extremely large projects with speed efficiency.

First of all I installed Git (http://git-scm.com/) for Windows.   It is pretty simply on Windows, as you just download the installer.  Other operating systems may or may not have an installer, so you should google "GIT [operating system]" or just go to the main Git site.  End result is that I now have Git running on my machine.

Next, I intalled TortoiseGit (http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/).  This is a Git revision control client.  There are many other clients, but using TortoiseGit allows me to install the Dreamweaver Extension called gitweaver (https://github.com/ChrisMcKee/gitweaver).  This extension allows the integration of TortoiseGit and Adobe Dreamweaver.  Nice!

So, once I have Git, TortoiseGit and gitweaver installed, I'm ready to get this going.  For the most part, you can simply have a local repo (repository), but if you are colaborating on a project, then Git hosting is a must.  There are sites like BitBucket.comGithub.com, BeanStalkApp.com, Unfuddle.com and many more.  Setting up an account on most is a pretty simple task.   I have used BeanStalkApp.com and Unfuddle.com - both have pros and cons compared with each other.

After setting up your repo you can not interact with Git directly from Dreamweaver.  This is huge in both regard to productivity and project management.

I have started this on BounceHouses.com, F1Weekly.com and this site (blog.tobyandjoann.com), and I'm thinking that I may start adding other sites to, for the simple reason that version control, even for an individual on a single project, is a smarter way to work.