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Be a DIA Guru: Imports

(Disclaimer: We try to keep this blog, for the most part, of general interest as opposed to focused on particulars of using the DIA software. This post is an exception.)

Want to store donations information with your DIA supporter record?

Want to import petition signers?

Want to create Group membership -- or the Groups themselves -- during an import?

When we set up new users on DemocracyInAction, we usually handle or assist imports of migrating data. Plenty of DIA users never touch the importer after that, but it's actually one of the most potent features in our system.

 

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08:00 PM Oct 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Be a DIA Guru: Imports

(Disclaimer:  We try to keep this blog, for the most part, of general interest as opposed to focused on particulars of using the DIA software.  This post is an exception.)

Want to store donations information with your DIA supporter record?

Want to import petition signers?

Want to create Group membership -- or the Groups themselves -- during an import?

When we set up new users on DemocracyInAction, we usually handle or assist imports of migrating data.  Plenty of DIA users never touch the importer after that, but it's actually one of the most potent features in our system.

 

Read more...

08:00 PM Oct 12, 2006 - 1 comments permalink

Historical Vindication

Damn, the Fighting Keyboardists not only get treated as respectable media figures, they get their own documentary and everything.  And this atop a Hitchens profile from the erstwhile armchair bombardiers at The New Yorker.

I'd say something snarky but I might get pwned with a tart bon mot.  Alas, my misbegotten faith in Islamofascism!

 

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04:00 PM Oct 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Way Off Topic: Who Deserves the World Series Title?

Liberals are known to dig underdogs, and for those of us who indulge the silliness that is big-time athletics, that affection often translates into quixotic support for lovable losers.

As we enter the narrow window when all four major pro sports leagues -- the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball -- are simultaneously underway, take a note of the hours squandered by some sad husk of a man charting just which cities are thirstiest for the transitory succor of a banner to hang in the rafters.

Of the four cities currently contending for the World Series, only St. Louis has fewer championships than statistically forecast by its seasons in the various pro leagues.

 

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02:30 PM Oct 11, 2006 - 7 comments permalink

Walpurgis Festschrift: Wealth Bondage and The Happy Tutor

(A poor addition to the Happy Tutor's Festschrift)

I had, once, a literature teacher with an abiding affection for the Christ image -- a fact unspooled when I submitted a paper tracing the Prime Decider's shadow in Hawthorne's Arthur Dimmesdale, a figure under an earlier sort of bondage whose flock was even then diligently belaboring the transmogrification that would replace the hairshirt with the business casual.

Dimmesdale upon his scaffold may be a Passion player, but the Tutor? As someone said there, the Tutor posts pretty well for someone who doesn't blog. Besides, God hates blogs. WWJD? Something that Google might buy, probably.

 

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05:30 PM Oct 10, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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