With ApacheCon US 2008 fast approaching, a weekend special on New Orleans in the San Francisco Chronicle might be of interest. Note that the conference is organizing its own volunteer day on the Saturday after, in cooperation with one of the organizations listed in the Chronicle article.
I have turned on SSL on my site, primarily to be able to log into the management interface of the blog engine over a secure connection. You are welcome to read the blog over SSL. The certificate was signed by Cacert.org, so you will want to download their root certificates and install them into your browser.
No guarantees that using SSL will make me post more often. Life has been busy.