I am small blogger, but I know one thing: what is mine, shall die withing the confinements of my our yard. This is why I will never accept to outsource my comments to Facebook or Google+. Yes, people can still comment out there, but when they come on my blog, the comments become part of the post, an extension to it.

Why would be that extension on some other network? I guess BBC want to show that they are “social”, but that move (or thousands of Likes on the page) won’t replace a good ol’ comment left on their blog. Bad move, indeed.

We looked at Ikea’s butcher block/countertop options as well. We could have gone either way but the price and size were what sold us in the end. Two of the tabletops could just fit in our car. The countertops were either too long or too short for our needs.

After almost five days of working at our new standing desks, we are doing okay. I do have a slight pain in my left heel which interestingly enough is sufficiently mitigated by going barefoot. The padding of my shoes is apparently doing the opposite of what it is designed to do. As I switched to barefoot-style running about 18-months ago, this is not too surprising.

I am curious how we will feel at the end of next week!

We wanted the desks to be fairly low impact on the environment (responsibly harvested US Forest Service approved Douglas Fir and pine, no VOC natural-pigments-based paint, etc.). The table top was Ikea butcher block (very similar to what you have). The legs and skirt were 3.5″x3.5″ douglas fir and 1×4 pine, respectively, painted black.

A year later, we’re pretty happy with the desks. We have two very high bar stools to alternate 2-3 hours of standing w/ 1-2 hours of sitting. One of the unintended positives for the desk is that it allows us to wear our daughter in a sling or carrier while she sleeps and write/code. She gets a long nap and we get to have a solid 2-3 hour block of uninterrupted work.

It took a while for me, but the desk really has grown on me and I’m considering making our corporate office desks into stand-up desks.

I appreciate your new-found joy of sitting with your family now that you spend much of your day on your feet!

For me, the hardest part of the transition was finding a standing position that didn’t hurt my shoulders, and the muscles between my shoulder blades. Once I hit my stride, I was feeling more productive during the day, and happier to sit down and enjoy time with my family in the evenings.

After the better part of a year at a cobbled-together standing desk, I hacked together something more permanent out of Ikea parts last month. Here’s the write up: http://teleogistic.net/2012/01/ikea-standing-desk/

Good luck with the transition!

In short, BP Privacy is not designed to run on newer versions of BuddyPress or WordPress. In fact, is was designed to run only on WordPress 3.0.5 and BuddyPress 1.2.7.

In my article, I also make it clear that “I am no longer developing or supporting this plugin.” Therefore, you will need to either update the plugin yourself, hire someone to do so, or choose a different option.

Finally, the article and plugin’s readme.txt file are very explicit that BP Privacy is “a release candidate, not to be used in a production site.” In fact, the plugin’s readme.txt file has this obvious statement:

WARNING:
This plugin is a release candidate version to be used only in a development sandbox and not in a production environment. Use at your own risk. This plugin is also not being developed or supported anymore by the author. It is released to the BuddyPress community for it to be adopted and further developed.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

i have created a site by wordpress and i have installed BuddyPress Privacy Component (BP Privacy, BP_Authz, or BPAz) plugin, for privacy issue, it is ok but, when i want to open this part of my site ara.net78.net/member it says that:

(in opera) “Redirection Status
The URL was redirected to http://ara.net78.net/welcome/. Please click the link to go there.
Generated by Opera” and when i click on it it says the same again.

(In Mozilla)”Redirect Loop
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
* NOTE: If accepting the site’s cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.”

i have checked the cookies also and all is well.
and i have also transfered the privacy folder to buddypress/bp-default.

any solution will be great.

I agree that Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near is not as optimistic as some of his earlier works. I wonder why?

I’m pretty sure that my father would be frightened by this scenario. It does not fit too well with his world views. As far as how much of our humanity can be ported into an artificial substrate, that is an interesting question. As you know, Kurzweil talks about the ability to scan our brains and fully upload — or transfer — our essence into another container. If that time ever comes, we may finally determine if there is another aspect of ourselves — our soul, as you put it — that is not possible to transfer. Or, perhaps, the technological shortcomings of the brain-transfer procedure will need to be expanded beyond the brain to capture that what might be called soul. After all, our neural net extends beyond the confines of our cranium, reaching out to every part of our body.

As I like to say, the brain is in our head, but the mind is our body.