Hosting May 19, 2005
With my random discovery of Weblogs.us and their free GB of hosting with WordPress and PHP, I've been getting into some really cool things.  PHP is so powerful!  I can put all kinds of stuff like weather and stat counters on my site without having to use other people's services.  This makes my site faster and less stupidly bulky (like my old site, daveinc.net).  For the past few weeks, all I've been doing is playing with my site and trying to figure out all the stuff it can do.  Man, I'm a geek... #technology
Grace and Mercy May 19, 2005
It was once said that grace is defined as getting what we do not deserve, while mercy is defined as not getting what we do deserve. #religion
HTML table styles May 13, 2005
Too bad I'm dumb.  I used to put all this code in my stylesheets so that I could format a table in HTML.  And then I would say <table class="tablestyle">...</table>.  I just figured something out that's incredibly easier.  In the stylesheet or wherever you define styles, just say this:  table { font; background; etc }.  That way, every time you insert a table, it follows this prescribed format.  So easy. #technology
Power of God's word May 12, 2005
I really believe in the power of God's word.  Sometimes I go to Bible studies and listen to some dude talk about stuff that I've probably already heard, and I think about what else I could be doing or what I have to get done after the Bible study.  It's times like that when I think about not going to the Bible study anymore.  I mean, I attend some sort of Christian group 6 days a week.  Isn't that enough?  But then I walk away or I drive home, and that's when I realize how important it is to meet with other believers in Bible studies.  I don't know how or when or where God's word is gonna speak to me, but I know it will.  It might be during the Bible study or church, when I suddenly decide that I need to start doing something in my life, and I need to start soon/now.  Or maybe it's next week, when I'm talking to somebody about Christian things, and I realize that I learned it at last week's Bible study.  God's word has this power that you can't really feel or see or define.  It goes beyond what we can understand.  But it's definitely there. #religion
Bathroom etiquette part 2 May 11, 2005
It has come to my attention that many people still don't follow proper bathroom etiquette guidelines.  This leaves other people feeling awkward and generally disgusted.  So here are a few more ideas to help make the world a better place:
1.  When walking out of a bathroom, don't continue to tuck in your shirt, button your pants, or further adjust yourself in any way.  This should all be done in a bathroom, behind closed doors.
2.  When walking out of a bathroom, don't continue laughing at something that happened while in the bathroom.  This makes it look like you're too immature to use the bathroom, at which point your bathroom priviledges should be revoked.
That's really all I have for now.  I'm sure there will be more in the future. #entertainment
Busy May 10, 2005
Why is it that I can sit around my boring job and do a sum total of nothing for about 9 months straight, but then all of a sudden, I don't have enough time to get everything done?  My main project is making me busy enough, but now I also have a final that I have to get done for the grad class I'm taking.  What's the deal?  Why can't things be spaced out?  But on the other hand, I've always found that I get the most done when I'm the busiest.  Unfortunately this is a logical argument; the opposite is also true:  I get the least done when I'm not busy at all.  But aside from logic, it's really true:  when I'm busier, I tend to work faster, so I end up getting more done.  I just sometimes wish things could be spaced out so that I could move and work at the same pace all the time, instead of speeding up to slow down.  But anyway, back to work... #education
Fakin' it again May 3, 2005
I just sat through this meeting at work, trying the whole time to figure out what the heck the meeting was about.  I was involved with the project a few months ago but it has since evolved into this completely different thing.  I figured I could fake my way through it and decipher what was going on by picking up context clues.  I was partially right:  I faked my way through it, but I sure couldn't figure out what was going on. #business
Import May 2, 2005
Wow.  This is amazing.  I decided to do the switch:  I moved all my stuff from Blogger to Wordpress.  Whoa.  I'm impressed.  I followed the tutorial and everything worked great.  It even imported my comments (not that I had many, and most were made by me).  I just got fed up with Blogger.  It's so painfully slow.  And whenever I go to their homepage, it takes forever for all those stupid little pictures to load up -- even the pictures that make up the borders and styles.  It's just big and bulky, which is why I'm surprised that Google would create something like that and let it get so big and clumsy.  I'm an official Wordpress user now.  It's just nicer.  I don't know PHP or anything like that, but I'm trying to learn little by little.  But besides that, there's this huge advantage that Wordpress has over Blogger:  it uses a MySQL database, so it doesn't have to "publish" anything (I think I read that somewhere).  This is unlike Blogger, which had to create individual html files for each entry and recreate them if you changed anything in the formatting of dates or templates.  I'm happy with my switch. #technology