Ben Hedrick’s daughter was born this morning 4:40pm April 17th. Karis Faith Hedrick and her mother are both doing fine. Congrants to both parents!
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I remember reading Anil Dash’s article, Anil Dash: privacy through identity control many years ago. As a result, I purchased the JasonWall.net, JasonWall.org, and the .net and .org versions of walljm.com. Though I had other reasons, that article was influential in motivating me. In keeping with the idea that if you are going to have an online identity, I regularly register the walljm name on all the new services and major blog engines to prevent other people from preempting the name. If you search for Jason Wall on Google, the first site you’ll get is this one. The same goes…
I have some errands I have to run today, but I’ll post a new Ireland photo this afternoon.
I’m a sucker for site stats. I love to know as much about who visits here and why, and how often. It feeds my ego, its true. :)First, for those who may be new, and there are a few of you, some history about walljm.com. The sites name is derived from my own name in the manner of the common network admin username system of taking the 5+2 last name, first and middle initial. Walljm was my username in college. The site was first conceived and put up in January of 2001, a mostly static site to showcase my photography.…
I know, I know, tags is a buzz word for really really flexible categories and using the Web 2.0 saturated moniker is, um, uncool. But why fight crowd. Truth is, my formal category structure here at walljm is clunky, hard to maintain and rigid. And “freeform categories” are not. So the ever popular tagcloud can be found here, and you will notice that all the posts and liks now show tags just beneath the main body of the post. This will hopefully make it easier for me to catalogue my posts and group photos and links in a much more…
There is no photo today because today is special. I officially shut the door on my 28th year of life sometime around 6am. I figured I would write a nice long post remenicsing on various things and writing about my accomplishments and goals for the future, but then I figured nobody would really want to read that, so I’m going to end this little paragraph here.I had hoped to post a self portrait, and if I have time tonight I will before I go to bed. w00t!
Jason Kottke is getting married to Meg Hourihan, finally, after six years, sometime in the next week or so. He announced it on the SXSW 2006 keynote discussion with Heather Armstrong. Congratualtions!
Arrived safely, and are having a good time. This was the first chance we’ve had to find a internet cafe and check in. Can’t write much now, but I plan to come back this evening and post some of the journal entries I’ve been keeping.Catch you later!
I’m only writing about this because writing about this sounded funny to me. I finally coded up a quick page that would let me do that quickpost popup window linky thing Movabletype implemented years ago. It was so easy to post links after that that I posted a bunch. Hey, maybe you’ll start seeing a lot of links in the link log now! lots! maybe!
This blog hasn’t seen many photos lately, and I feel terrible about it. Truth is, and this is going to sound like a bad excuse, I haven’t had time to take any.But, like the title says, I’m going to Ireland this next week and I’m going to take a lot of photos. I hope to post a couple while there, but I can’t garuntee Internet access. I’ll post updates with the photos about how things are going and my thoughts and whatnot. I’ll keep a journal of what’s going on, and post that when I have access.Things I’m looking forward…
I’m lacking in photo’s to post, due in large part to a serious lack of time during good photographing hours to take pictures because I’m busy getting ready to leave the country, taking care of details that accumulated while in the hospital, and dealing with church business (something I rather enjoy). Why am I starting off a post about my Pectus Surgery like this? Well, *shrug*, because I’m in a rambling mood. And I feel guilty for breaking my promise to post photos every day. Oh well, there must be content, and Sean wants to know how things are going,…
VideoSift.com posts cool videos from video.google.com and youtube.com. When I visited it today, the dance video and martial arts video’s were astounding. Cool site.
The Choral Public Domain Library offers free downloadable sheet music in pdf format. Just after brief inspection, it looks pretty cool. A number of classical authors and a large number of authors that are undoubtedly famous but I’ve never heard of.
Through the course of living and relating to God, God teaches you things. Lately, He has been teaching me about Himself, teaching me to view Him as a Person not a Concept. In the course of this post I’d like to try and explain why this concept is important to me, and some of the impact it has on life as a Christian. The principle is that you have to approach your relationship with God much like you approach relationships with other people. It is a concept I knew but didn’t, and still don’t to some degree, fully understand. When…
Finally I have photos for you to see. I also saw the doctor yesterday for my first post-op appointment. Everything looked good and I’ll see him again in two months. He told me I could start jogging again, but I think that is a little ambitious.In my last post on this subject I left off just after coming home from the hospital. I stayed a week at the Spilgers home because my apartment is bereft of a recliner and sleeping on a bed at that time was a painful experience.Things were pretty tender the first few days. Getting around was…
In case you were wondering, no, I’m not engaged. The Proposal was the product of a fit of inspiration that grew out of my fascination with a mental image of a crystal clear autumn dusk in a small grassy dell beneath a large picturesque tree. In the air, falling like snowflakes, were small gauzy points of light. The word dentrites sprung to mind when I thought how to describe them. The scene was supposed to be electrifying. I wrote the first two verses trying to describe the scene then got stuck. I asked a friend if I should go up…
For those of you who know Dr. Guimon and aren’t aware of the current situation, I thought a brief post here might help to spread the word that he needs prayer.Several weeks ago he had valve replacement surgery to correct a heart problem sustained during cancer treatements when he was a teenager. The sugery was a success, but during his recovery he began having problems with his kidneys and lungs.As of today what I know is that he has pneumonia in both lungs, and has contracted Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) which is a very serious problem in the lungs,…
I’m sorta busy with getting the details of my life sorted through since I’ve been away for a couple weeks. Until I can clear the back log and can carry my laptop home again, the blog will be put on hold. Shouldn’t last for more than a week, but I wanted everyone to know.Thanks,Jason Wall
(The following is an introduction to a much larger collection of essays I have been writing off and on for the past few years, and thus leaves much of the meat of what I introduce left unsaid. Keep in mind also that I’m not writing to my blog audience here. The following should be read as though I were speaking to a church congregation. Thanks.)In the circles I run in, there is a man who is greatly admired by most, and who has achieved a large amount of respect. This man has built his reputation on a credo widely adopted…
Here is the longer post I promised you. I’ll post pictures in a couple days after I’ve had time to take the post operation shots and retrieve the pre operation shots from my mom.Pectus Excavatum is a congenital birth defect that causes the ribs and sternum to grow abnormally resulting in a sunken cavity near the sternum. I’ve had mine all my life. The symptoms I’ve experienced seemed to become worse in the last couple of years. I’ve been easily fatigued all my life, and it takes longer for me to recover from physical exertion than is normal. Prolonged periods…