Ok… the net is just far too interesting today… among the link on the previous site, i found two very cool ones. First is a new element found called administranium. A must read for all people from every walk of life… and Secondly, a site with Haiku for all the elements… This one I like very much.

I have a few friends who are chemists, and I love em, though they can be kinda full of themselves sometimes… :) But this flash periodic table of elements is pretty cool and might interest them.

There are days when things like this just make me excited. There have been times is the last few months since the attack on New York, that I have questioned our Attorney General, and his actions. All that talk about losses of privacy were a little disturbing. But when the Supreme Court struck down a law that would ban child porn because they said it was too strict, I was bothered, grieved even. Pornography is wrong, in all its forms. It is a sinful perversion, that damages all who come in contact with it. It is especially harmful for children.…

My Mom is blogging! :) If you notice a resemblance to mine… that is because i designed the site. At some point, i may make it more original, more like her, but for now that will do. The site is still somewhat under construction, so look for new sections to appear very soon. I love you Mom! :)

The abuse of children in third world countries is rarely good. It’s especially disturbing when done in the name of the Bible, such as is going on here on the Sudan Ugandan border. The Ugandan government obtained permission from the Sudan to pursue the LRA, a terrorist group intent on overthrowing the Ugandan government led by President Museveni. The LRA, which stands for the Lord’s Resistance Army, regularly kidnapps children and exploits them for labor and soldiers. Some 6000 children are thought to be in their control. I just want to take a moment to praise the Ugandan government for…

Boy! And I thought snail mail in America can be bad sometimes… Over in China, they have a 3000 year old letter that has never been delivered. Man, that person is going to be mad. heh heh…

I’m not exactly new to the web development world… but i’m not by any means an expert. I have just recently started to explore the options available using the Document Object Model (DOM) and client side scripting. For those out there who don’t know what the DOM is, it is a way of manipulating parts of an HTML document using a scripting language like javascript or vbsscript. So for those out there who care, here are some links to pages that introduce the DOM in a somewhat more readable manner than the W3C documentation. Webmonkey DOM Article, and Webreference Article

We all do it. We’ll be passionately defending something, weather it’s important or not isn’t the question, and in an effort to avoid appearing foolish we resort to this. Some people don’t know their doing it, and really just need to be educated. Some people know their doing it, but are to lazy to avoid it. Precious few avoid it altogether, and those people are the ones who will be remembered, standing the test of time and history. Which will you be?

The mind of C. S. Lewis never fails to awe me. In the 26th letter of The Screwtape Letters, he writes for Uncle Screwtape and says, The grand problem is that of ‘Unselfishness’. Note, once again, the admirable work of our Philological Arm in substituting the negative unselfishness for the Enemy’s (that would be God for those who haven’t read the book yet) positive Charity. Thanks to this you can, from the very outset, teach a man to surrender benefits not that others may be happy in having them but that he may be unselfish in foregoing them. That is…

Corroboration on my previous view that our government has no right to condemn Israel Apparently, Israel is one of the most humane fighting forces in the western world. Israel has been fighting to root out terrorist organizations in the Palestinian areas, at the cost of about 3 lives per day. In comparison to America, who defeated the Afghans at a cost of 6-14 lives per day, that is phenominal. Israel is even more humane that the LAPD, who during the riots, subdued the crowds and restored peace at a cost of 9 lives per day of riots. Heads up America,…

Its true, I suppose, that cities never sleep. Always, their busy denizens run from place to place. There is rarely ever silence, nor ever a quiet moment. It is ceaseless, with its malls and bookstores, its banks and office buildings. There is life in the city, yet darkness too. The city, with its constant progress and innovation, for all its city lights and sleepless nights, is slowly dying. You can see it in the eyes of those people you meet each day. There is an emptiness and a constant running. They run because they have nothing else they can do,…

My friends… www.Google.com has come up with a really cool idea. It’s a google news search, and it allows you to search news sites for specific words. Check it out…

Ok… question for all you web people out there… I’m designing a user registration form, and i’d like input on the most irritating or usefull aspects of filling out a registration form online. Please send your thoughts to [email protected] or use the contact form. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

I was on my brothers site and he pointed to this cool quiz you can take to see how good you are at spotting the real thing.

Here’s a new and interesting site to keep you busy for a while… www.newsoftheweird.com

A week ago, we had a baby shower at church for a couple families. One of the activities was to write a poem, like that time at pizza hut, using the words given. So I composed another Haiku. Here it is for your reading pleasure… Smiling the kids play Read, walk, run, enjoy the day This is family

Whoever these guys are, they have way to much time on their hands… :).

How true is this. Jeffery Zeldman, from A List Apart discusses the dangers of the lack of distinction between Style and Design. Mostly he decries the lack of effort on the part of the web design community to focus on hard core usability and design. Instead, they spend time emulating the style of really successful designers, focusing on cool, but limited in usefullness, technologies like flash that only work in the best browsers on the fastest machines. It’s really all about content, and usability for the majority of web users who spend most of their time reading text and looking…

What is it about the quiet of an evening in spring? Cool air on gentle breeze, the grass green beneath my feet. In the distance, the sound of a flag blowing in the wind. In all stillness, the world breathes a sigh of relief, as winter warms and prepares to flee the brightness of the sun. And tonight, my heart cries out with joy at the coming of Spring.

For some reason, this bothers me. I think a good reason why is illustrated here Etymology of the word “church”: Middle English “chirche”, from Old English “cirice”, ultimately from Late Greek “kyriakon”, from Greek, neuter of “kyriakos”: of the lord, from kyrios lord, master. This is very interesting. According to one dictionary’s etymology of the English word “church”, it originated from a Greek word meaning “of the Lord”. The Greek word ekklesia, which is translated church, is a combination of the Greek word kaleo (which means to call) and ek, a preposition meaning out or out of. Therefore, ekklesia is…