Well, I finally got around to fixing the look and feel of my photo gallery. I went ahead and chose a really simple gray on white theme, and I think it looks a ton better than the base blue. I also fixed the header so that it is now consistent with the rest of my site. Check out the photo gallery.

Hey, check out this screenshot from a recent download of CentOS.  Pretty sweet speed eh?  Very nice for a consumer level DSL.

A story I shared with my Awana clubbers last week:

A father with two young children has cancer and is close to death. He knows that he has but hours to live and so he writes a letter to his two young children. In it he details to them what things they will need to know as they grow up. Stuff like: how to ride a bike, to obey their mother, to care for one another, to go to college, how to pick a wife, and that he loves them very much.

After his death the mother reads the children the letter. They are young so they don’t totally understand what it says, but they understand that their dad loves them and that he wants them to obey their mother. The family reads the letter quite often, and as they grow older they begin to understand more of it. The children used the tips their dad gave them about how to ride a bike, and whenever they ride their bikes they think about their dad and how much he loves them. Later as they are about to graduate from high school, they read dad’s encouragement for them to go to college and so they do it. During college they find girls that meet the qualifications that their dad set out for what their wives should be like, and so they marry them. They have kids of their own and eventually they share their dad’s wisdom with their children.

Now suppose what would have happened if they would have never read the letter? Their dad loved them enough to write down all of the things that he knew they would need as they grew up and they never even bothered to read it?!?! Or maybe they just read it once or twice and they just picked up a few things, but never all that their dad wanted for them. I think we would all say that would be very foolish not to pay attention to the letter that their dad so lovingly wrote for them.

However, we often act that foolishly. The Bible is a letter written to us by our heavenly father, and He has put so much effort into this letter. If we don’t read it we are being very foolish. Now, just like in the story, we don’t have to understand everything right now, in fact, as we grow we will understand more and more. However, we must read and study the Bible so that we can learn the things that our heavenly Father wants us to know.

This morning I helped Beth head out with the boys to my folk’s house. They are going to spend some time with their grandparents while my mom is on spring break. I know that they are all looking forward to it and were very excited to leave this morning. I am also excited that they are able to go, but it certainly makes for a quiet house for me. In fact, I usually get pretty bored when they are all gone for a few days. This weekend I have some stuff todo around that house, but I don’t know how busy that will keep my mind. Maybe I will have to stop by Escape Fiction and see if they have the second book in one of the series that I have been reading. Also, as I recently posted, I was hoping to have a small LAN party at my place tonight, but that didn’t manage to work out. However, I have an invite to go chill at Bob’s house tonight, and I am thinking I will probably take him up on that.  I am sure that I won’t have to try too hard to be able to keep myself busy until they return.  hmm, maybe some golf….

Ok, so here is the deal. I am going to have the house all to myself this weekend, so I figured I would have a LAN party on Friday or Saturday evening. Is anyone here (who actually reads this blog) interested? If so, drop me an email or post a comment.

Happy April 1st!

The one had me going for awhile: Wordpattern.
Of course, there is pinkdot, from the makers of slashdot.
Check out the items under “Humor” at Linux Today.

Those are just a few of the items you can expect to see today.

Happy April Fool’s Day!