Archive for September, 2010

Of Lemons and Lemonade?

Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on September 29th, 2010 at 10:15 pm

Finally I was able to spend some time making a dent in the backlog of images and email I have accumulated.   It’s rough to keep up this site when you have a job that doesn’t allow you to work on personal stuff during work hours!  One email address is down to about 600 emails, the other still has more.

Then disaster hit yesterday evening.   A friend of mine sent me a link to an interesting story on an known European news website.   It appears that site was compromised and my computer was soon infected with some nasty bits of malware.   After working on it for over 24 hours now, the computer is almost clean.

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The Jamboree Spike?

Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on September 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 pm

Jason Spangler recently wrote a blog post on the sales spike on eBay following the 2010 BSA National Jamboree.   You should check out what he has to say:

http://2010jambo.com/09/boy-scout-category-analysis-2010-jamboree-spike.html

To me the interesting part was when he got to the two year graphs.   What appears to be the a sales spike after the 2009 NOAC was dwarfed by the post-Jamboree activity this year.

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Lodge 104: Is Pleather a Word?

Posted in Occoneechee 104,SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on September 19th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Occoneechee 104 L2?

Occoneechee 104 L2?

Occoneechee lodge issued a rather unusual flap at their Fall Fellowship this past weekend.    This patch is manufactured on a type of  imitation leather, called “pleather“.    This is a plastic made to resemble leather, also called leatherette by some.   As far as I know this is the only leather type patch with merrow border.

Some in the lodge are displeased at many of the recent designs Occoneechee lodge has used on their patches, preferring  more traditional and less cartoon-like designs.  Those traditionalists should be pleased with this flap.   Other than the unusual base material, this flap uses the lodge’s traditional flap design.   No unusual design elements or color schemes are to be found here.

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Dreams of a Future Trade-O-Ree

Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on September 13th, 2010 at 8:55 pm

I’ve  been tinkering a  lot lately both on and with computers.   A lot of it has had nothing to do with this site.   I also recently replaced my failing Blackberry Storm with a Droid 2.   The “gee, whiz!” effect is still in active.  So far, I generally love my Droid.   I’ve been downloading some apps and wondering how some day they could transform our hobby.   Already laptops are becoming common place but this is only the beginning.

The app that really has me dreaming right now is Google Goggles.

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The Old War Horse Returns Home

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on September 8th, 2010 at 6:04 am
The Old OAImages Home

The Old OAImages Home

Finally, a couple of weeks after pulling the plug, the old server was returned to me.   My old server hosts guys were very good to me while the server was there but failed in returning it quickly to me.   When it came back I didn’t even get the power cord for it returned to me, no less any disks CDs that were shipped with it all those years ago.  I’ll get over that.

Anyway, over the weekend I decided I needed to set it up to recover the last few missing image files that for some reason were not backed up on my hard drive here at home.   All has not gone well and I am having trouble getting the server to boot without an emergency diskette (yes, diskette) or CD.   I knew the hard drives were failing and had been having trouble so this is not surprising.

I thought a few readers might be interested to see where this site was kept for many years.  The monitor and keyboard were taken from the store of excess parts I have here at home.

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January 30th, 2012
Tschipey Achtu Lodge: Update

Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.

I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.

The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.

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January 14th, 2012
An OAImages iPad App?

Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.

I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?

Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion. Read the Full Post

October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches

Amangamek-Wipit 470 S132?

I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.

To view these items, go to OA Images: National and Special Events Patches page and select either of these events from the "Other Specialties" drop down box. Read the Full Post

August 27th, 2011
Coming out of Hiding About April 1st

It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.

I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.

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March 31st, 2011
Comment Spam

This is strictly an "FYI" post for those familiar with the issues facing those who maintain blogs and message boards where readers can post comments.

Recently I had been having issues here with comment spam getting past this blog's filters. I deleted the inappropriate posts as quickly as I could but this was still unacceptable to me, as well as additional work. I since have required that readers register before they're allowed to post comments here. That seems to have stopped the spammers.

I still see a number of probable spammers, mainly from Russian domains, registering on this blog but so far none have had their comments posted successfully.

I may test my luck for a short period of time in the near future. At some unannounced time, I will turn off the registration requirement for posting comments for a day or two. I want to see if the spammers have been chased away, or if they're just awaiting an easy opportunity to push their garbage Read the Full Post

February 11th, 2011
Change in Comments Policy

This blog is being hit with a large number spam comments lately. There have been over 12,000 attempts to spam the blog with comments just within the past 60 days. Recently a few dozen comments, hawking service and goods I deem inappropriate for this blog, made it past the filters. Since I don't desire to spend more time deleting the spam as I find it and don't want inappropriate information to sit on my blog, I am tightening up the policy on commenting here.

Those who wish to comment must now register and be logged in before being to post comments. Registration is free and is not the same as membership to this site. This is a common practice on many blogs especially among sites run by more "traditional media" type companies.

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