Condolences and prayers to Nick Bradbury who looks to be headed for surgery for a herniated disc in his neck. Nick is the author of FeedDemon, the news aggregator I use that saves me hundreds of hours visiting key websites for news and perspectives. Having gone through a lumbar disc surgery myself four years ago, I know that the road back was not easy yet the practices I used during recovery of appropriately trained, professional massage and craniosacral therapy and now yoga have me more flexible and resilient than I certainly was prior to the injury. I wish the same for Nick. If you are looking for an RSS aggregator to follow this website and others that support RSS, http://www.FeedDemon.com is where you should look.

January 2003, my copy of Radio Userland died. The weblogs (I had several) at http://www.leaders.net stopped at that time. Now they are back, using a new technology platform called ExpressionEngine by http://www.pmachine.com. It is a content management system and weblogging tool based on templates. It uses a PHP/MySQL technology base (the same I use for my recent development work).

I went back and re-pasted entries that still interest me from my old Radio blogs, from http://www.Godswork.com where I used to post my poems and spiritual writing, and imported postings I’ve been making over at http://www.healthfulhands.net. Alas, the Healthful Hands Network had to dissolve as a corporation. I and the rest of the board will continue to provide support to our region, and I am planning a new home for a revised provider directory.

MUCH of this site is incomplete. I’m in the middle of UI changes and fixing a number of the templates. No need to report any such problems to me YET. With quite a number of interesting projects at work, and my part-time massage therapy work, it may be awhile before things settle completely into place here. ExpressionEngine is in beta, too, so expect some problems there, such as with search. It’s good to be back publishing again!