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Archive for May, 2006

New York Daily News – Home – Bush press pal quits over gay prostitute link WASHINGTON – A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution. (Via America Blog.) Search the internet [...]

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Connections Theme Not Working

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I don’t know what happened, but my wordpress theme broke. I haven’t done anything out of the ordinary lately. I noticed funky stuff a few posts ago, and Dwayne just noticed newer posts getting messed up so it’s gotten worse. I’ve switched to the classic theme until I can get the connections theme working… Or, [...]

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USATODAY.com – NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls Please get upset about this.

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Jamendo : Open your ears

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Jamendo : Open your ears Creative Commons music… over 1000 albums. Definitely worth checking out. And if your podcast does not have advertising, it is ALL available for podcast usage (with credit given to the artist, of course).

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Delusions of Grandeur or God’s Call?

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Just a thought… I wonder how many times in the past I have thought God was speaking to me about something big, where it actually turned out to be delusions of grandeur? But then again, I have also seen God do some big things and if he is going to use someone (not me in [...]

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Email Posting on WordPress

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

As Dwayne pointed out to me, you need to do more than set up the email address in the admin for WordPress. You also need to automate the script, wp-mail.php. I set mine using a cron job to run every fifteen minutes. I may reduce that as I don’t anticipate posting by mail very often… [...]

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SUV Hit by Train

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I tried to post this via email, but it didn’t work. Has anyone gotten the post by email function in WordPress working? Just curious… Any way, I wanted to provide more details than typing in slowly on my phone allowed for any way. So I got a rush call for an audition. I have an [...]

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Buildings for God

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

I had a blast from the past over the weekend, as I was reunited with some old friends from my days of pastoring in the Assemblies of God. Driving by their church building a few months ago sparked me to call. My pastor friend and I played phone tag for a couple of months before [...]

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unto caeser?

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

unto caeser?: i was watching tv last night, and as i was flipping through the channels i rested on a ‘talk show’ thing were some people were talking about the war, and i was just about to change it when one of the people said that he did not support the war because he felt [...]

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Kruse Kronicle: Royals on road to nowhere Michael Kruse and I have been ranting about the Kansas City Royals baseball team. An idea, which for obvious reasons would never happen, came to me while thinking about the plight of the Royals. It’s easy for us in the blogosphere to be armchair quarterbacks (wrong sport, I [...]

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