Monday, December 01, 2003

Microsoft has a change of heart I tried saving a web archive version (*.MHT) of a Microsoft support/KB site. It did not work before, probably because they reworked their site design. I was not able to pin down what changed to fix it, but my earlier comments about the site being "broken" does not seem to still apply. However, when I saved the web page and viewed it from disk, some of the styles were not preserved. The fonts that are normally small (or should I say "x-small") were obnoxiously "normal" size. Here's the comment I left on my earlier post. Well, as of 12/1, I can save Microsoft KB/support articles in MHT format again. I don't know what changed or when, but the problem seems to have been fixed. I submitted feedback via their content links, but received no reply. I can only suppose that they either "got around to it" or that enough people complained.

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Congratulations Glenn, Mom, and heir Glenn Slaven has an heir. He told me so when he apologized for his slow reply on one of the most personally meaningful threads that has been generated from blogs4God.com thus far. On a whim, I deleted my blog and reposted it on the techBlogs section, with Dean's blessing. As a result, I thanked him with some Amazon referral links and got mentioned. So Dean kindly gave me a front-page mention along with the promise of an autograph of the 'other book' that I will probably take him up on, especially if I'm ever in his neck of the woods. (I mean that Dean, really, if you don't mind, I'd love to visit some time.) As close as I could tell, Dean lives somewhere near the Redland Baptist Church in Rockville, Maryland. But that's hard to tell given the ease with which a person can collaborate on a web project (like the USA-Austrailia connection mentioned in this post--read on!). Somehow, in all of that hubbub, Glenn Slaven read my archives and contacted me with some real interest about the Prayer Channel idea that was buried in a long series of back links from my recent description of relisting on b4g. I was amazed at how God can use "whims and coincidences" when we're mourning over his invisible workings. You know, like "God, where are you?" So, exactly nine months to the day from the Prayer Channel post (see the birth significance here?), Glenn contacted me with this (excerpted) statement: I was wandering through your archives last week & came across your post 'A conversation at Dean' (http://www.xagronaut.com/categories/xagTheRedemptionProject/2003/02/16.html#a209) where you mentioned the concept of a Prayer Channel. I was wondering if this idea had been taken any further? The reason I ask is because I think it's a brilliant idea & I've been toying around with some XML and PHP this weekend to see what I could come up with. It's all fairly simplistic at this point, but i've got the beginnings of an XML syntax: http://glenn.bluemountains.net.au/dev/prayer/xml.php?orgid=1 To be incredibly honest, I hadn't yet done anything further. I still had the domain name ready, but gasp!--I hadn't put up the first bit of content. And, yes, it still is only an index page with a link to the post on my weblog. Correction: I just updated the index page to link to some sample XML files that embody my exchanges with Glenn so far. I may also use Radio's category feature to create a custom blog for the site. Update: I did use Radio's category feature, and you can visit PrayerChannel.com to get the basic content now. There's some lag while Radio upstreams the new content, so please be patient and check back periodically over the next couple of days if there is a problem. I was getting a 403 error just a bit ago. I appreciate Glenn's enthusiasm, initiative, and history. Glenn lives and works in Austrailia with Voice of the Martyrs, Austrailia, and other ministries. He just emailed me apologizing for not replying quickly to my latest suggestion at revision. Something about "Yada, yada, yada...New baby...Yada, yada, yada." Dude, talk about "real life trumps blogging/coding/whatever!" I totally understand. Congratulations, Glenn, "Mom," and heir!

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