The last couple weeks' near-constant gloomy weather has been sucking the life out of me, and more of the same predicted for the coming week. Trying to keep my mind's eye on the rainbows. Thursday I went shopping for sundries at the Sears at Boca Town Center mall: underwear, which was on sale but what I wanted was not in stock. A slap-chop or strawberry slicer; no dice (heheh). A hand blender; they had a lot of overpriced gimmicky crap as well as $250 high-end blenders and food processors but nothing mat... (...more)

Frustrated with being stuck where I was on my jQuery app development, I distilled it to a much simpler, leaner demo. The concept is a minimal employee record editor like you'd see in an HR app, featuring an employee ID field, first and last name, SSN and DOB. I think it's a fair testament to my source design foresight that I was able to copy the whole app directory, change a few database connection parameters in the config file, rework some of the SQL and voilà - working demo. Well... "mostly" working.... (...more)

1. was out and about perhaps before church in a strip mall and ducked into a restaurant just as it was opening for the day with an urgent nature call. Stalls had doors but so low as to be pointless and a crowd of what was apparently morning bathroom regulars and one matronly employee wandered into the enormous restroom. I guess the saving grace was it was all strangers. 2. Something about cats being euthanized or just killed, made me cry and one of my housemates was laughing at me for crying. I did not ... (...more)

I don't claim to observe Ten Commandments, just two - Love God and Love Thy Neighbor. These encompass the traditional ten anyway. But lately I've been troubled about the second of the traditional ten: "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain". What does that even mean? People say "oh God" or "oh my God" or any of a zillion permutations and mincings of Jesus's name as an exclamation, some more blasphemous than others, all day long. Wikipedia isn't particularly helpful; according to it, ... (...more)

I'd got a feel for the 10:45 services at Hammock Street Church, and decided I'd see what the 9:00 service is all about. Turns out it's basically the 10:45 with lighter attendance and no interruption to herd the kids off to Sunday school. The homily started with the observation that society seems as discontent as ever, and more polarized than ever. So what can/should we as Christians do about it? The general answer comes from the Sermon on the Mount, via Matthew 5:14-16 ("You are the light of the world")... (...more)