last goodbye

Guys, this blog has officially turned derelict. Plez c the *real* me over @ lucentwarrior.com.























[tears]

OH YEAH!!!!

Well folks, tonight I installed wordpress on my new domain! OH YEAH! I had struggled through it before, and it didn't install right, and I was like unimpresssed with it. Then tonight, I was rereading the install documentation, and realized I was missing something important: one of the compelling reasons for using bluehost for my webhost was because it had wordpress preinstalled. HA! Well that made it easy.

I spent the rest of the evening trying to customize my new blog. I have the main features down, but some of the critical stuff is still missing... Wordpress uses this weird conglomeration of style sheets and regular html plus php script, and I'm not really sure what does which (probably all very standard, but I just don't know it). With blogger, I just found the footer script, and inserted my hit counter code. Now it's not apparent where it goes... I just need to do a bit more poking around I think. Oh, I need to add, Wordpress allows customization out to wazoo...

Anyway, this whole post is to say, please update ur bookmarks, cause this blog right here is a goin down! (at least is going to turn into a blogger front to my real website/blog...

Visit me @ www.lucentwarrior.com and my new blog @ www.lucentwarrior.com/blog/

Have a good one...

Hi Guys

Hey, I haven't written anything personal on here for a while...

I'm enjoying Worldviews class. That does help add to my general duties and things to get done. I don't feel behind right now, but it does take away from my free time to do things like email and blog. One annoying thing I'm doing for worldviews right now is log my time for two weeks in 15 minute increments. This is supposed to demonstrate things about our current worldview.

My website finally has propagated across the internet (this means you can view it now), so I'm pumped about that. Unfortunately, I'm realizing that I have some serious learning to do to get it this figured out. I was thinking about just moving my blog to my website (which I did for about a day), something like what Darrell has done, but that looks like pain. Besides, I'm trying to figure out how I can move to wordpress.

David just gave me a copy of M$ FrontPage 2003 to mess with, which is pretty cool. Unfortunately, I don't have the second clue about building a website (I can maybe halfway code in html, but not build a website), so I have some serious studying to do this week.

I'm about written out for the day (two journals, a Bible study-journal, and a blog entry, and maybe an email after this), so I'm gonna haff 2 sign off.

Oh, btw, dear Naomi and Bev came me a pair of tigger socks to wear! (Very sweet of them) I'm not sure if I can come to grips with wearing socks like that, so I might have to mount them on my wall! :D They also gave me this adorable kids book, entitled "The Going to Bed Book." On the back, it says "Serious Silliness for all Ages!" :D

hehee

There is a wicked awesome flash clip here!

(heheee)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg.php

Thanks to a Mac lover for this animation (apparently).

BTW, I found this on Mennodiscuss

my website!

OH Goody! My website is FINALLY up! Now I'm publishing my blog to my website. My old blog address will still work, or you can go to my new website http://lucentwarrior.com--either will work (and look virtually the same). I'm still trying to figure out how to make this all work together...

Maybe some day I'll get wordpress up, as well.

Time to keep moving, Sharon's Workshop session is nearly finished, and I'm not done with my website yet! (I'm at the recording bench)

IE Crashing pages!

My homie (well at least I know who he is! :D), Matthias Miller, has this cool post to his blog: I'll paste part of it here.

Fun with Internet Explorer

02:15:56 pm, Categories: Humor/Mental Leisure, Internet Explorer, 120 words

It can be a lot of fun to develop web pages for Internet Explorer. Without further ado, here are two pages I have prepared just for you:

• "Operation Aborted" message. This is just an odd error message that you get when loading a page. If you have a script inside a form, and the script calls createElement while the page is loading, Internet Explorer fails to load the page.

• Internet Explorer crash. As a courtesy, this page prompts before crashing. There page has many facets that must be present for the crash to occur, yet the code is surprisingly simple.

Who's says you need to be ashamed about creating pages that can only serve their purpose in Internet Explorer?

Enjoy.

Quote of the day

Taken from a Microsoft White Paper on M$ Exchange Server 2003
(my emphasis)

Most organizations today are dependent upon a solid communication infrastructure that is highly available and low-cost to operate. A new survey conducted by research firm Dynamic Markets found that 68 percent of users become irate in as little as 30 minutes without email access[1]. This same study found that almost a third of IT Managers surveyed would rather suffer a divorce than an email outage.

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[1] http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1013611.html

John 1

Last night I read John 1:1-14 as part of a Bible Study assignment for Worldviews.

I think I'm learning more about how amazing it is that Jesus came to earth. Maybe it's like the man who first came to the ocean, and said, that looks big. Yes, it IS BIG!

I really like v. 14. The Word (Logos) became flesh and dwelt among us. How amazing! It looks big (but it's WAY bigger). What could the implications be?

my weekend

Hey homies,

I am running out of time...but I want to quickly mention my weekend. It was really cool. It was very good to be back with "family." I got to spend an evening hanging out at Uncle Dave's! That was super great!

I loved being on the open road again...I set the cruise in my car for the first time since I've been to FB, over 5 months ago!

Here is one quote to leave with you:

Walter Bagehot

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

BTW, check out mennodisgust, my cousin's (I think) parody of mennodiscuss. Heheehaa

BTW(2), my webhost still hasn't been transferred, 9 days later. Time for some action.

Goodnight, I'm off to the Journals...

Worldviewed (out)

I'm having fun reading from The Universe Next Door by Sires. There are lots of gr8 quotes in there. Right now one of my favorites is: Eastern Pantheistic Monism. Q: what could be pan- and mon- at the same time? Comment 2) about Eastern Pantheistic Monism is that it blows my Western way of thinking. For example, becoming one with the One transcends reality or something like that. Truth as a category is rejected as beside the point. (and I'm like, do what??)

Following are some random quotes from The Universe Next Door. Feel free to leave comments.

"To honor human creativity, Sidney argued, is to honor God, for God is the 'hevenly Maker of that maker.'"

"A man said to the universe:
'Sir, I exist.'
'However,' replied the universe,
'that fact has not created in me
a sense of obligation.'" --Stephen Crane

"Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last--far off--at last, to all
And every winter changes to spring.
So runs my dram; but what am I?
An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry." --Lord Tennyson

"Charles Darwin himself once said, 'The horid doubt always arise whether the convictions of man's mind, which has devloped from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trusworthy. Would anyone trust the conviction of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?' In other words, if my brain is no more than that of a superior monkey, I cannot even be sure that my own theory of my origin is to be trusted.
"Here is a curious case: If Darwin's naturalism is true, there is no way of even establishing its credibility, let alone proving it. Conifdence in logic is ruled out."

The little gym construction project is proceeding merrily. Dave is at it again with his signs.


Arlyn says this sign (above) is postmodern.

My tech blog [tears]

My tech blog officially [sob] was euthanized today. However, like the Phoenix, I suppose a variant of it will resurface at the upcoming lucentwarrior.com...

Well

I just bought a two year package from Bluehost last night! It's supposed to take about 24-36 hours for the domain to propogate to my new host, so we'll see what happens (that would be suppertime Saturday). Meanwhile, today, I will frantically do homework and hope and pray I will have some time to try to get a webpage up!

(I am very hyper about this--in case any of the FB'ers haven't caught on yet) [heheehaa]

Uhoh

Uhoh, I decided just for stupid to see what it would be like to try the adsense program on my blog. My apologies in advance for defiling a good blog...

--Mark

It's Official!

Check out www.lucentwarrior.com ! Not that it does anything right now, of course, but hey, it's cool! Actually, it does do something. Right now it forwards you to my blog! :D (Hah! Take that!)

All right, enough goofing off for now! Time to hit the homework (hard)

Update: In case it wasn't clear, clicking on the link to my website will bring you back to my blog because it is set to forward there.

This morning, now that my domain is active, I created a starter webpage because that is cooler than just forwarding it to my blog.

I'm taking suggestions for someone to host my website! Minimum requirements: 1G webspace, less than $10/month. I'll probably just buy some junky plan from 1and1, but I'm open to other ideas.

New Domain for me?

Hi folks,

Yahoo is offering domain name registrations right now (ends today) for $2.99/year. I think I need to get a domain! Any suggestions for one? (A domain would be like x@yahoo.com, or billybob@marknisly.com).