Mickey and I have been pretty busy these past few months.

Our Africa Rural Connect project with the National Peace Corps Association has gone into its fourth round of the competition. We have been really pleased for our client as they continue to receive national and international media attention for this project; recently the Washington Post and The Seattle Times mentioned the ARC project, and it was featured on the radio across the African continent on Voice of America.

So, what’s Africa Rural Connect?

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This past Tuesday, I attended the Green Drinks DC cocktail hour.  It’s an event that happens on the second Tuesday of every month.   It’s usually at a different restaurant/bar around the city.  It was great to catch up with “the regulars”, but even more interesting to run into close friends from other social circles that were in attendance, too.  DC is a small town, but it’s not that small!   To me it’s a local indicator that “going Green” isn’t a fading fad, but a growing movement of interest.

Typically, they have a speaker give a short talk about their company, nonprofit or project (of course, Green-related).   This time around it was Casey Trees, an interesting nonprofit that along with other programs, I know them best for going around the city and planting trees.

I spoke to their Director Jared Powell just before he presented, and he shared that they do approximately 1,000 trees a year in DC alone.  They need volunteers and of course property owners interested in having a tree planted on their property.

I ran into my friend Monika Thiele, of The DC Green Connection.  It’s been several months since I last spoke with her, but it sounds like things are going great.

The DC Green Connection’s mission is to grow the green economy locally and promote sustainable living widely through fun and informative events, green business promotions, networking, and social media marketing.

The DC Green Connection already have a Meetup group of 177 members!  They have sponsors lining up and it’s great opportunity to get involved with something Green in the city.  It’s no secret that Mickey has managed to convert my bad habits and I have also become passionate about Green-related technologies.   Anything that helps move the needle in protecting this ball of dirt we live on, Infamia is in support of.

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I am picky.  I like substance rather than sensationalistic drivel. I get irritated by bad prose.  I’ve been known to correct people’s grammar.  And I actually spell out “you” and “our” when I text.  As thus, I rarely find a blog post I’m willing to pass on.  (Oh, the foreshadowing!) голова болит секс

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Of course, now I’m going to tell you that I did find a blog post worth passing on.  It’s from Matt, over at wordpress.org, on how to keep wordpress secure.  But don’t just stay on the first paragraph.  This is more about wordpress.  If you’ve ever been online, if you are now online, or if you intend to be online ever, you owe it to yourself to read that, and take it to heart.  This applies to car maintenance as much as it applies to wordpress or to any other online thing you do.  Matt doesn’t sew (I dabble at it), but the premise is ageless:  an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I’ve expounded on this before.  Coincidentally, I just read some examples in a magazine that continue to car analogy.  Tales of a forgotten oil change costing the owner the price tag of a new engine; ignored brake pads that ended up ruining the rotors; ruined transmissions; the list goes on.

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This post brings it down to earth: regular maintenance is a known cost. Budget for it. Lack of regular maintenance (leading to a hacked site, for example) can cost many thousands of dollars.  I was looking at a hacked site just this week:  Over eight hours at emergency rates just to investigate.  The site may require tens of thousands of dollars worth of work to make sure that all vulnerabilities are closed.

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I guess routine maintenance is your “business decision”.  Just call me when you get hacked. I may even be nice and not add the “I told you so” tax.