Dear ThirdGoal.com users, This past week the website suffered a failure during a software upgrade. Users were unable to view the website or tell their story. I apologize. I believe I have resolved the issue. The outage does make me wonder if the website still serves a useful purpose to the Peace Corps community. It has been more than [...]
Justin Wesley Brady, 27, of Philomath, Oregon, was killed in a boat accident on September 3, 2006. Brady was an Oregon State University graduate, Peace Corps volunteer, and member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He began his Peace Corps experience for Mali, Western Affrica, in January 2005. For more about Justin and his passing, visit: [...]
Looks like there is another site devoted to some of the same goals as ThirdGoal.com. “The Peace Corps Fund supports programs conducted by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to implement the Third Goal of the Peace Corps Act — help Americans understand the people and cultures of other countries — and thereby make our [...]
Forgot to mention, I also added a Translate feature to the site’s sidebar, thanks to a little plugin developed by Scott Hough. Click on a flag/target-language and Google’s translation engine or AltaVista’s Babel Fish will conduct a machine-translated version of the page you are reading. Though it’s no replacement for good a linguist, it should make Third [...]
I made a few enhancements to Third Goal this weekend. Pictures Third Goal’s Peace Corps group on Flickr contains nearly 1,500 photos posted by 20 members. A random selection of those photos now appears in the sidebar of the site and at the bottom of each individual post. Anyone may add photos, so [...]
