Well I preached this morning on the text of the Good Samaritan. I will have to go back and look at the Scripture references I have preached on. Next week will mark 4 years since I arrived here.... it's time.
The title of today's sermon was Fixing our Vision. Hope you find it beneficial
One of the perks of having your own website is being able to use it to send a personal message to friends.
Most people who know even a little about PHP & MySQL have heard about Luke Welling and Laura Thomson's book PHP and MySQL Web Development. The book has a 5.5/6 star review at Amazon.com.
About my only criticism of the book is that it, like most, does not include XHTML examples. The book came out in March of 2001, so we'll excuse that.
A lot of PHP books are now out of date because the new version ships with register_globals set to OFF which means that a lot of scripts that used to refer to global variables will have to be re-written. How fun. But it was necessary due to security precautions.
Anyway, the book is awesome... if you want to get going with PHP and MySQL, pick it up.
In about 10 minutes I wrote a web page that adds information into a database. Too cool.
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a fun link for you: A Male Thesaurus.
Nathan Lane is on Letterman... he has grown a goatee.... and it looks better than mine. This is quite distressing.
Since I bothered you all to read this, I might as well give you something to read.... we've all suspected it but now there's more evidence: Mac users are smarter than PC users
Inspired by an entry in Mark Pilgrim's great blog on 30 days to a more accessible weblog, I have been playing around with the Site Navigation Bar on Mozilla. Now Internet Explorer and most other browsers do not (yet) support this feature, but it is fast becoming a favorite of mine.
I just realized that I could add this block of code:
<link rel="Validate"
href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"
title="HTML" />
<link rel="Validate"
href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"
title="CSS" />
And Mozilla would add the entries to its Site Navigation Bar under "More"
Very nice.
Also, I just installed MovableType who have already integrated some of Mark's suggestions into their new templates, meaning that the default installation will be more accessible thanks in large part to Mark's article. Very cool.
See also:
Mark's blog entry on Providing Navigational Aids
[ed - Please note I am still working on getting this installation tweaked out to have all the accessibility features I'd like to have. I had to stop yesterday and fix it for Netscape4, otherwise known as the bane of the web.]
Inspired by the way-cool Daily Digital at Beagles on the Web (they have a caption contest each Friday), I have decided to start a caption contest for the Daily Dose of Ethan.
Enjoy!
"fantabulous" (adjective) meaning (roughly speaking) fantasticly fantastic.
Why Dennis Miller? Yeah he can be crass, but he also usually gets to the center of issues facing society.
Oh, and where did "fantabulous" come from? Eddie Izzard. If you don't know who he is, well then your world is a little less strange than the rest of us.
There is plenty of bad news out there... everyone knows that.
But in the midst of those stories are other stories... stories about hope and the difference one or two or a group of people can make.
There is no good repository of this information as far as I know, so I decided to start one here.
Please send me your good news stories! A link/web page is preferable, but a personal story that will encourage others is also fine.
Here are a few to get us started
Fertility drugs do not increase the risk of ovarian cancer, a major study finds, in a conclusion that offers reassurance for the millions of women who have undergone the treatments.
Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/693596.asp
Music can excite or soothe us, but does it have the power to heal? A growing number of physicians and music therapists are using techniques to help their patients recover from illnesses of all kinds, and a new “sound healing” movement suggests that the traditional incantations and rituals of ancient cultures have value to our health today.
Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/740418.asp
(unfortunately MSNBC does not keep an archive of their pages, so that link might disappear in the future).
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/09/medal.of.freedom/index.html
12 folks recognized, from as diverse a group as Mr. Rogers, Hank Aaron, Bill Cosby, and Nelson Mandela.
[ed - This review was written on 05/27/2002 after my wife and I had been waiting a week for her to go into labor "any minute now". She went into later early on the morning of 5/28/2002]
It's not about the Bike proclaims the title of Lance Armstrong's book, the sub-title "My Journey Back to Life" tells you what it is about :-)
The book is worth-reading. I didn't know anything about the man other than he had cancer and had won Tour de France twice. I didn't know much about Tour de France either.
Reading the story takes you alongside Lance's journey. Sally Jenkins (who probably did most of the real writing, converting coversations into chapters) draws you into each scene, from the mountains and the cheering crowds to the oncology unit.
By the end of the book, you understand what it truly means to win the Tour de France, even if you were (like me) completely ignorant of what it meant or required to do. Winning the Tour de France had less to do with winning bike race than it had to do with finding his way back to life. To win meant not that you had the best bike, but that you had "enough iron in my legs and lungs and brain and heart." It meant growing up, maturing.
Armstrong wrote that if he had to choose between overcoming cancer and winning the TDF, he'd choose cancer. I'd think that anyone who read the book would understand, but apparently not because the new chapter in the current version of the book includes this explanation:
What I mean is that I wouldn't have learned all I did if I hadn't had to contend with cancer. I couldn't have won even one Tour without my fight, because of what it taught me.
Armstrong is quite a character, his story is quite interesting and his character, like most, is much more complex than it would seem if you didn't know.
One quote that stuck with me, especially during this time of waiting, is this:
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
I suppose that's been the lesson of the past week here too :-)
In her never-ending quest to get enough rest, Sadie will go to any lengths to find just the right place.
It's not likely that she could get much more comfortable than this.
1) You have a choice in viewing the file. You can see it in this window
(Click on the back button to come back to this page
2) Select this link to open picture in new window. (Close that window to come back here)
(it is the same picture regardless of which link you use)
Well after a little over a month with GreyMatter, I've decided to go with MoveableType for the (we)blog software. The primary reason for this is that it will allow me to have more than one area set up as a blog. The advantage to that is that it is much easier to update a blog than a regular web page.
Also production has ceased (at least for now) on GreyMatter, so it seemed a good idea to use something that was still being developed so we can enjoy new features as they come along.
Enjoy, and don't forget to visit the DDOE !
