philly

Oct 9 2010 - 4:16pm

I recently designed and through together a site for Sherrie Cohen for her campaign for a Philadelphia City Council at Large seat.

I can't remember when I first met Sherrie, it has been a long time now, but I most recently worked with her during the campaign to save the libraries and essential city services back in 08/09: http://coalitiontosavethelibraries.blogspot.com .

I support Sherrie because she is true to her motto as tireless "warrior for economic and social justice." I look forward to see her mix it up this campaign season and to a victory next Spring.

New Drupaldelphia Design Is Live!

Mar 22 2010 - 10:16pm

I worked most of this weekend, b/w a poetry reading, a piano bar, getting a good run in and hanging out w/ rjs, on updating the Drupaldelphia theme.

Drupalcon Sessions: the Good, the Great, and the Folks From Philly

Mar 20 2010 - 8:41am

crossposted: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/drupalcon-sessions-good-great-and-folks-philly

Philly Representing

The voting is over and the Drupal Con San Fran sessions have been posted. I'm proud to say there will be a number of sessions featureing folks from Zivtech and the Philly area:

Alex - Zivtech:
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/contractor-shop-how-make-leap

Alex - Zivtech:

Is Comcast Degrading Google Through Their DNS?

Mar 10 2010 - 12:12pm

It is no secret that Comcast DNS servers are at times terrible: http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5672

At work we've found that for some reason we couldn't reach google, gmail, or all of our google products. This happened several weeks ago and was worse on Macs and our Linux machines.

We all switched to using OpenDNS, instructions here for Ubuntu: https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/ubuntu , and not only did our web-surfing get way quicker, but we were able to reach google without a problem.

DrupalCon Sessions Voting Open: Vote Philly!

Feb 23 2010 - 9:35am

list from Alex's post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/51408

I and a number of folks from Zivtech and the Philly area proposed sessions for DrupalCon San Fran in April. Voting for the sessions is now open. Vote the Philly ticket!

Jody Hamilton: Zivtech
How to Change Everything and Hack Nothing

Community Journalism in the Times of an Economic Crisis

Mar 30 2009 - 9:21am

In recent months there has been a great deal of hand wringing in the national media around the global economic meltdown. We hear about the failure of banks, large payouts to executies, and the downward turn of the financial markets.

Locally, our media has focused on the city's budget gap with the only fix an increase of taxes on working people and making "touch choices" about city services.