So, I’m not one to promote Christian culture trends or things like that. In fact I have a disturbing picture to post in a bit that will balance this post out a little. But, I wanted to spread the word in Nashville, that I have been listening to a Christian radio station and… I Like It!
The choice of music on WNAZ is really good. It’s so good I can listen to it when the students are around and that can’t tell it’s not the hip-hop station (like that really means much to any of you). I guess the sort of Contemporary Christian culture is getting a little more hip, cause I’ve heard some good music on this station.
And WNAZ is commercial-free (though they have a commercial announcing that every other song, and they have businesses sponsor the traffic report)! Meaning I don’t fall into the dilemma of having to email the Christian radio station about their horrendous advertising and lack of concern about Christian values within their advertising.
So, if you got a chance flip the dial to 89.1fm in Nashville or go to WNAZ.com to listen online.

Okay, the infomercial is over.

Another attempt to reach a group of people with a contextualized Bible Translation.

I think some of you might enjoy this version: SMS.

Okay, Let me take this moment to introduce you to a new wave in the Internet. If you haven’t picked up on it, it’s called ‘tagging.’

The basic idea is an effective labeling system for your stuff (images and bookmarks, etc). The amazing thing is collaborating this tagging system with others, known as folksonomy. Now we are just beginning to see the popularity of sites using this system, and believe me they are popping up all over.

I’m only doing a short little post on this for right now because I wanted to give others a heads-up so they can explorer this quickly up and coming Internet trend. Here are two sites that are at the head of this trend: del.icio.us and flickr. First, del.icio.us is a chance for you to not only take all of your bookmarks and share them online with friends and others. Not only can you share your bookmarks but you can see others bookmarks who have used similar tags as you, and search for tags for topics your interested in. For some of your coming Internet searches I suggest you try searching del.icio.us tags as well and see how effective it is.

Second, flickr started off as a great site to post your pictures to share with friends and family. Now, it is becoming a one stop shop for getting the pictures you want. Try a flickr tag search to see what I mean.

That’s all for now. I hesitate to show you my del.icio.us page as they are rather unorganized and incomplete, but here it is. And for those interested my flickr page for all to see.

p.s. before you start tagging here are some tips from top taggers.

Okay, I’ve decided to start writing when ever things come to mind, instead of spacing this stuff out over days at a time (which many times means I forget what I was writing about).
For those of you subscribed, I apologize if this means far too much in your inbox. If your only interested in one or two categories, email me and I’ll help you keep updated on just those.
Also, I’d love for you to spread the word about any post or about my blog in general. Links back to here would be much appreciated.
I figured I’d try out a Tag Cloud form of Categories, as you can see over at the side. The Bigger the text the more post are in it. Hopefully I can make this a useful tool in the future.
For now enjoy.

Much love and peace.

Before my uncle was an uncle, he was a fun kid.

One time my grandma had just bought some new dishware. She was raving about how these plates where “unbreakable” as the advertisement had stated.

“unbreakable, huh?” Jiffy had asked with doubt.

“yep.”

“okay.” And with that Jiffy took a plate and tossed it across the room where it landed with crash and shattered across the floor!

Uncle Jiffy died of AIDS 11 years ago, and I never got to know him that well, but that story has made me smile.

I’m doing the AIDS Walk in honor of my Uncle Jiffy.

My uncle moved to Texas. He had lived in Chicago his whole life. As many folks who’ve made their way south have found out, there are some unpleasent critters that we don’t have many of up north: cockroaches.

My uncle was quite disgusted by them as many folks are and did what any smart person would do and called an Exterminator. The exterminator came and did a thorough spraying of his house. Then he asked my uncle when he would like to have his regularly schedule appoitments to continue spraying.

“Wait you mean I have to keep paying you to come back and do this?!?!”
“I’ll just live with them then!”
And that was that.

He would sneak into the kitchen in the morning and turn on the light and push as many cockroaches as he could down the sink before he started his breakfast.

When my aunt went to visit, he warned her to let him go into the bathroom first before she took a shower or anything.

I guess that made my uncle a frugal guy or something. Anyone who knows me knows that sounds like something I might do too.

I never really got to know my uncle. He died when I was in sixth grade. He died of AIDS.

I’m doing the AIDS Walk in honor of my Uncle Jiffy.

It’s time to get our Energy Conservation consciousness rolling. I’d like to introduce you to two websites.

TerraPass is an enviromental group dedicated to investing in Projects that reduce CO2.
Members of TerraPass our folks like me and you have recognized the fact that we are doing a lot of harm to our environment by driving around and we should probably take some interest and responsiblity to “restore the balance.” Basically you go to the website, calculate about how much CO2 your car produces a year, and then buy a membership (donate) enough money to invest in CO2 reducing projects equal to your cars output. I hope your conscience is tugging.

Now, I’m planning on doing this TerraPass thing, but I’d like others to join in with me. Enter PledgeBank. A dude in England started this and it’s pretty cool. Basically I’ve agreed to buy a TerraPass if 10 other people Pledge to do the same thing. If your gonna do it then click here and sign the pledge. Deal?