Dear Pastor Terry Jones- I understand that on September 11th, you plan on carrying out the act of burning Qur’ans with your local church. Do you seriously realize the significance of the act you’re about to carry out? This will create all sorts of complications and security concerns for our troops in Afghanistan. This will [...]
My second week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week three. When studying Anthropology in higher education, you learn in your first class the necessity of “participant observation“. This is defined as getting involved with the group you wish to study. In other words, rather than sitting on the sidelines, just watching the [...]
My first week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week two. This week was the week that school started for fall semester at my local university. I’m a bit nervous being able to keep my energy high all day long after going from class to class at school, so it will be interesting [...]
I mentioned that I wanted to participate in Ramadan, even though I’m Mormon. This is my first week of doing so. So, the first week of Ramadan has been a good one for me. There have been times when I have struggled with fasting, and there have been times when it wasn’t such a big [...]
I’m a Christian. Specifically, I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yes, I’m a Mormon. In fact, I’m a very active Mormon. I believe the doctrine, I attend church every Sunday, I read the Holy Scriptures, I pray, I attend the temple when I can and I try to live my [...]
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The day before Mother’s Day, my family went up to the Golden Spike National Monument. We went through the museum, checked out the exhibits, and they even had a reenactment of the ceremony there on Promentory Summit. It was a fun day. On the way back to the car, I head some radio operators: CQ [...]
Yesterday, while at school, studying for a quiz, I saw that there was an open mic poetry reading. While passing the sign, I recalled a poem that I wrote about my wife’s hair while bored in church. So, I told my wife about it, asked if she and my daughter wanted to come, and we [...]
For those who know me, know I use the nickname or alias “eightyeight”. I use it on IRC as my main nick I chat with, I use it on the microblogging service Identi.ca, and I use it elsewhere here and there. There are several reasons why I use this nickname, and I’ll cover those here, [...]
It’s the digital age. Computers are getting cheaper and stronger. Mobile smart phones are becoming a household fixture. Networking is more readily available than ever before and increasing its speed. Yet, many of our daily products remain locked in the past, not taking advantage of what technology has to offer. So, personally, I decided to [...]
Today is the day, my friends. The day where the boys are separated from the men. The day tech support is separated from the system administrators. The day God smiles from on High. What am I referring to? Why, Whiskerino 2009, of course. The concept is simple. Whiskerino is an Internet beard growing contest that [...]
A friend of mine just recently signed up for your land line telephone residential service. Within days, he has already been getting a slew of solicitation phone calls. He hasn’t even had the chance to hand out his number, and already, he’s getting quite the barrage of solicitors. Yet, I have a Google Voice number [...]
Ever since discovering ZSH 3 years ago, I’ve been addicted, but it wasn’t until a good 2 years into using the prompt on a daily basis that I decided to do some radical work with my prompt. I’ve blogged about this before a couple times, making improvements along the way: post 0, post 1, post [...]
While taking the bus home yesterday from work, I needed to login to work over the VPN and get some stuff done, before the next day started. The express bus I take home has free WIFI on the bus. Unfortunately, it’s anything but reliable or stable. I kept losing the connection, then I would have [...]
After weighing in the pros and cons, it looks like I’ll be migrating my blog, and all of it’s data to a Movable Type install, rather than a WordPress install? Why? I’m hoping to take some strain off the server by removing the database on the posts. Honestly, I don’t know why blog engines have [...]
