3 posts tagged “blogger”
I want to give wordpress a chance, I really do but they are some things that Blogger has wordpress does not. It may seem trivial but to me it means the world and the same that goes with Blogger. With Blogger you can change the color of your written content but you can't (or I don't see it) on Wordpress. You can use the strikethrough line in Wordpress but not in Blogger. Wordpress is for a person who is a "power user" when it comes to blogging...I am not that person and that is why I have stuck with Blogger for a while.
I was about about to switch to wordpress but then I found out how to change my template and I stayed put...yet again. This time I may move again because of one "small" thing...I can't add emotions to my post on Blogger. I found (oh so I thought) different scripts so I can begin putting emotions in my post on Blogger. I tried it and maybe I didn't install it correctly. Maybe I will try it this weekend when I have more time. To be honest I'm happy with Blogger. I know you "power users" think Blogger is for wussies...well call me "mr. wuss". I see the pros like Todd Kelley, Fave, Anewlis, Nikki and others fix up their blogs and they are on point. Me, I just wanna post. If I learn a trick or two...sweet. ^_^ But for the most point, I just want it to work.
I'm pretty sure I can learn how to use the "strikethrough" line for Blogger down the road but why Blogger does not have the "smileys" code imbedded in there is kind of funky. I sometimes copy/paste the Yahoo emotions in my post and it's not really a big deal but what if someone wants to leave a comment and use a emotion in their response.
A Simple Life but Not An Easy Road...But It's Worth the Drive
I just finished reading the devotion from Our Daily Bread (actually I thought I was reading today's reading but then I realized it was from yesterday) how Christ Jesus and the two thieves hung on the cross and one thief is now in Hades and the other is in Paradise. Isn't it amazing how in the time on the cross after living a certain way how our Lord and Savior can still forgive us? Now I am not say we can live our lives any kind of way then at the last moment just cry out, "LORD...I BELIEVE IN YOU!!" and that's it.
Many times people who live their lives that way heart grows so cold toward the word of our Lord and we have pushed our conscience so far back where we do not hear the warnings because the God who created you and I knows our heart and He knows if we are sincere are not. Last Sunday our pastor was saying how some Christians make the this life so hard to live and he was saying that following Jesus Christ is really simple...I tend to agree. It's not an easy road I grant your but it is a simple life.
I love living a life with no nonsense problems. I call it that because we, Followers of Christ Jesus and non Christians alike are going to encounter problems throughout our lives: certain bills that pop up out of the blue, people that dislike you "just because, decisions we will have to make throughout life...it's going to happen. What I have learned that whenever I have put my trust in God's word and I mean not only reading His word but meditating and DOING it how simple my life has become.
I remember years back years back when my wife and I were visiting her relatives in Racine, Wisconsin we got into a discussion on how some churches were allowing gay pastors head their congregation and the role of women in marriage. My wife's cousin felt that people were throwing in "their own opinion" when it comes to that decision and people have a right to believe what they want to believe. I just sat their listening, not saying a word. When he came to me to speak I just said, "I'm not going to debate with anyone, if it doesn't line up with the word of God, there is know reason for me say anything."
He (my wife's relative) is not an believer but He had to agree with me on that point. I was not taking the easy way out, I'm just telling the truth. When we give our lives over to Christ, our lives are not our own any more and to be honest it makes life so much "simpler" and again, I am not saying that it makes life easier. It's hard to disagree with some beliefs in this day and age, so many things has become so homogenized and what once was considered wrong is now right.
I have said this time and time again, yes God gave us a free will because He did not want robots because He has made His feeling very clear on what we should and should not do, not to keep you and from living but to keep you and I from unnecessary pain down the road of our lives. Man have I made some choices in my life that I wish I "reformat" my brain and time do over again (as my geek brother Luis have said from time to time) but the truth is, we all have. But now knowing that by me truly giving my life over to the Lord that I have another chance not only on this earth but to have enternal life is so wonderful. I don't worry about, "where I'm going when I die?" and "what meaning is my life?" because I know where I am going and believe me, many people may not say it out loud but they think about it from time to time.
To have that ease of mind is half the battle won to me. ^_^ The other have knowing that as long as I continue to read God's word, study and meditate on His obey His word my road on thing called, "Life" is so much simpler as well. I have come to many detours in my life, some of my own choosing, some not in my control but knowing that even when I stumble, He is there to pick me up and I am not down too long because in the end, I come out a winner no matter what is the best feeling in the world for me.
Be Blessed, Be Safe, & have a Wonderful Weekend.
from my newsblog...
Google makes video
play with YouTube buy>>>more
from CNet.com website
It finally happened...Google purchased YouTube. I think what really blows me away is not the purchase of YouTube (it was rumored that pretty soon YouTube might have went under do to the bandwidth cost to the company) but the fact that once again, a blogger broke the story.
Remember when we were in the grocery store and we saw magazines like the National Enquirer and other magazines that we would just walk right past them because they were 90-95% crap and the rest may and I say a small may have been true. Now these 'throw' away newspapers (can't believe I just called them newspapers) have more truth and break more stories it seems than People, Time, Newsweek and other legit news organizations.
I think some of it now comes from the fact of, you guessed it...technology. Ted Turner started it all with CNN to be honest. People thought he was nuts to start a 24hour, around the coverage news organization. Yep, he was crazy..crazy like a multi-billionaire fox. Now we have the Weather Channel, ESPN, the Golf Channel, Speed Channel. Yep Ted, you were the innovator.
It was the blogs that told on Mark Foley and this leak with the Google purchase of YouTube. Most blogs you have to take it with a grain of salt but rather the big news organization want to recognize this or not, bloggers are making there mark when it comes to delivering news. Hurricane Katrina Katrina, the war in Iraq, the news is getting out to the masses..the good and the bad. Even now when you go to websites (CNN, MSNBC, CNet) they have 'blog" sections on their site.
I listened to my TWiT podcast today and they were kind of scoffing about the Google/YouTube story. John C. Dvorak (you're still my hero) did not think this was legit...sorry John.
Yes, blogs are here to stay and that gives me hope that maybe I can do this full time one day soon.
other tech articles: MySpace organizes Sudan fundraiser, Ray Noorda, The CEO Who Led Novell Dies, In the home stretch toward Vista, Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step … Backward?
Christian readings: insight for living, Coping with Loss, God's Curriculum
netcast for your mind & soul: Futures in Biotecha>, dl.tv: Episode 101, Chosen by God, Part 3
