I just printed 400 pages for a sur­vey I get to do tomor­row after­noon. I was think­ing about tak­ing it to church and get­ting opin­ions from the same kinds of peo­ple there (it’s a sur­vey for CYIADA for youth lead­ers), but then realised it was pretty much use­less with them because I already knew every­thing they had to say. So it’s more of a sur­vey for really basic aggre­gate num­ber stuff, not in-depth things I couldn’t fig­ure out on my own.

Which, I’ve decided, is fine, because I’ve got a web and email address on the piece of paper, and for the num­ber of con­tacts this so-called “sur­vey” seeds I’m pray­ing it’ll be com­pletely worth it, even if no-one both­ers fill­ing in the sur­vey prop­erly. Really, $40 (or how­ever much actual cost per page is here) is pretty good if I only get 10 qual­ity leads on peo­ple who are desparately keen to use some­thing like this… and can wait a few months.

I men­tion that as trou­ble appears to be brew­ing on the home front re: the wait­ing part… :| Peo­ple are enthu­si­as­tic but in a “let’s grab a generic CMS and mix it up with Blog­ger and Google Groups and it’ll rock” kind of way. Which is fine for all of about six months, then you’ve gotta do it all over again because 1 of 3 stops work­ing for what­ever rea­son. And scal­a­bil­ity issues. Grr… any­way. I thought we’d been through all this already with our abortive Yahoo! Cal­en­dar attempts of 18 months ago. Appar­ently not.

So… please be pray­ing for wis­dom and patience around that par­tic­u­lar issue. And espe­cially that I’d be lov­ing, because right now I’m in a posi­tion where I could clob­ber peo­ple with tech­ni­cal ram­blings until they agree with me (read: relent), or sim­ply go and change it as I think it should be… but doing either of those things is obvi­ously unpro­duc­tive. Again, prayer for wis­dom is very welcome!

Prayer is also sought for tomor­row — for the Youth for Christ pro­gramme run­ning at St Andrews all day, and then for me at the Con­nect­ing in a world of change con­fer­ence as I present in my lit­tle 2.20 to 2.30 times­lot. Which is plenty of time for a geek like me — I actu­ally do enjoy pub­lic speak­ing, but that doesn’t mean I’m much good at it!

I’ve also got to get a site up for CYIADA, because I decided that if I stuck it on print mate­ri­als and did 130 copies of it, then the poten­tial for embar­ras­ment should be suf­fi­cient moti­va­tor to make me move quickly! Hehe. Really must get one of the IT guys here to setup host­ing first thing tomor­row… I fig­ure it’s okay if it’s not work­ing straight away, because I can say it’s just been put up and there’ll be some­thing there in the next cou­ple of days.

In other domain-related news I also picked up josh.st. So you should be able to get to this site via that funky URL in a few hours once DNS pushes through (the name­servers have switched, finally — .st’s NIC took for­ever with that — but obvi­ously it’s still got to prop­a­gate). I know I’m always say­ing this but there’s a new design on its way. I’ve got three sites in the works at the minute, so if it doesn’t come in a hurry don’t be too sur­prised. I doubt any­one is any­more, though!

Tags: DNS, Google, Yahoo!