JesusJournal.com manifesto

(If you've read this on twelve other blogs already, apologies.  This is my thoughts on seeing the manifesto, before looking to see what others think.) The manifesto is dated August 10th.  They suggest an association of Christian webloggers, with various duties.  There's a few points I

Polygeek

I don't know whether to be offended or pleased... You are 41% geekYou are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have

More on advertising

Found an article in the BBC News: Why ads on the net don't work, by Bill Thompson (link via The Group Captain). I want to tell all of these advertisers to stop, because it is getting in the way. I use the net a lot - for work, to

Get off my computer!

(Approaching rant factor 7 Captain, the engines can't take much more!) Pop-up advertising, banner ads, and junk email all plague the internet like that nasty algae that blooms on the sea, covering everything with green slime. Physical junk mail gets tossed out unopened, but at least it

Families

One of my Blogfathers is Gary Turner: Paternally Yours I'm absolutely flattered by that fact that I have kids, apparently. Had I known this sooner then I'd have attempted to lead a better example as a parent. Sorry kids. Please don't be too dysfunctional.

Beta Group: New Resources

Philippians 4:1-9 Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends! I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord.  Yes, and I

Carpe Diem (trans: Fish of the Day)

English is a light-fingered language, stealing a word here, a phrase there.  I have been wondering what "sine qua non" means for a bit, and found a web site with translations of the words English has snaffled from French, German, Italian, Spanish and Latin.  Curiously, English took

Blog Genealogy

This is a family tree I'm actually interested in.  Whose blog inspired whose, links between blogs, wonderful stuff.  Check my pedigree: This blog started in January 10th 2002, during the first week of an HTML class I was teaching online. OK, so I've just started with

Celebrate!

Our seventh wedding anniversary!

Friday Five

Yes, the web site has been down most of the day.  No, it's not my fault, but I am assured it's fixed now. The Friday Five.  Wow, that's two weeks in a row! 1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from? Good