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So the real question is… just who exactly is the OGC and what do they have to do with me? That’s a good question. If you are involved in GIS then the OGC may pertain to you. Like the W3C they produce standards for the GIS community. And like any standards organization, they fight an uphill battle getting people to adhere to those standards. The OGC is very focused in what it is trying to accomplish. There are large databases of geospatial data that are not accessable to most people because many times there is no gateway and those that…

I am realizing more and more the danger of wanting to learn something about everything. The problem is that most people don’t have the capacity to hold all that information. What ends up happening is that you don’t become good at any one thing, but just ok in a lot of things. Personally it’s frustrating. Mostly because I don’t have the discipline I need to be good at a lot of things. I barely have the discpline I need to be good at one thing. But one thing tends to bore me after not to long. What to do huh…

Good Morning all! I slept more than the average amoung last night and i am feeling much better. The Atesto word for the day is “Biaibo jo?” it means “How are you?”. Pronounced “Bi-aye-bo joe”. To respond you would say, “Ejokuna” which means “Fine”.

Yoga! in Atesto, Yoga means "Hello". The traditional reponse would be "Yoga Noi" meaning “very hello”. To say good bye you would say, “Yoga Do”. To find more vocabulary for the Ateso language, you can go here

We had a guest speaker at our church today, a Bro. Mulroney. He is an evangelist by trade and 100% Irish. The man is 100% sold on what he believes and quite the talker. I love to see a man whose passion is worn on his sleeves. He is powerfully emotional and vehemently against those things that have hurt him and those around him.

I am profoundly surprised… Few times have i heard in my lifetime a voice for feminists that was reasonable. As homeschooler who loves his mother and carries a great deal of respect for the other half of this race, i have always been highly offended by the feminist movement because of their flagrant attacks on me, simply because i was a man. yet here is such a voice of reason. My thanks Mrs. McElroy.

I was surfing around and came across this page explaining some things you can do to optimize you asp code.

I’m not sure when these popped up, but Error messages in the form of Japanese Haiku Poetry is very funny, and in a way quite apt. as Bill Higginson said: “The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts. At the deepest level, this is the one great purpose of all art, and especially of literature.”

The first photo ever shot was taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce. It took him 8 hours to expose the plate. Scientists are pretty excited about the reappearance of the photo. Apparently it was misplaced for some time.

Hey, Sean C. tried that test and got a 133. Pretty cool. If you took the test, send me your score and i’ll post it along with mine.

Hmm… well, according to www.emode.com I have an IQ of 136: This number is the result of a formula based on how many questions you answered correctly on Emode’s Ultimate IQ test. The even better news is that at Emode, we’ve taken your IQ test one step further. During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. We were able to analyze how you did on each set of those questions, which allows us to shed light on the way your brain uniquely functions. At the same time, we compared your answers with…

I have archives… From now on, the blog will relfect a months worth of entries and all other entries will be archived according to month. It’s 1:32 AM (CST). I’m going to bed…

Hmm… AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer. Could change be in the wind? this means that there are going to be a lot more NN6 browsers out there. Heads up webdesigners…

Wow… unscrupulous use of software… Netscape Time Warner should know better. I found this on www.rc3.org/. Microsoft knew better…

Jon noted his experience with Tim and Albert at Borders yesterday. I was among the folks who was there when Albert introduced himself to the group. I enjoyed meeting Tim and Al, and I was impressed at the level of maturity they displayed as christians. I have a question Jon. What was it that you learned? You said it was one of the most "eye opening " bible studies you’ve ever been in. The reason that strikes me is that I found the chance meeting cool, but not really eye-opening. I feel as though I missed out on something.

This is a rather cool essy on the life and times of bloggies.

I’m going to be teaching in my sunday school class next sunday over Proverbs 6-10. So I was looking up definitions for wisdom yesterday. It’s always interesting to research a word that you are familiar with to find deeper meanings. Here are some of the quotes I found: Usage: Wisdom, Prudence, Knowledge. Wisdom has been defined to be ”the use of the best means for attaining the best ends.” ”We conceive,” says Whewell, ” prudence as the virtue by which we select right means for given ends, while wisdom implies the selection of right ends as well as of right…

Announcement: the feb2002 gallery is online. The photos are of the three historic water towers on Grand Avenue in Saint Louis, and were taken on 2/23/02.

For all you you are wondering, the Uganda Trip countdown clock sitting in the menu counts down the time until i leave for Uganda, Africa. I will be visiting a missionary friend, Dr. Kyle Guimon, and assisting my pastor while he teaches a Biblical Study Methods class to 50 national pastors. This is a great opportunity. When things get closer to the leaving date, i will be introducing some extras on the site, and while i’m over there, i will be logging my experiences, posting pics and video for all those interested to enjoy. So keep watching…