An interesting piece in the Post’s monthly On Faith series regarding some churches that have mixed various religious traditions in inventive (and apparently popular) ways. It’s worth a read, especially given that many of the Christian denominations in the U.S. are losing members while these churches are growing.
Email Policy Notice: Greylisting
Because of a drastic increase in spam emails over the past month, I am re-enabling email greylisting. Greylisting is a great technology that requires mail servers to automatically resend messages (spammers generally can’t leave servers running to do this, for risk of being caught and prosecuted). This will only happen the first time you email me after I enable the technology, and you probably won’t even know it happened.
Promotion; Apartment with [almost] no Windows
So the reason I’ve been so nutty/busy/tired lately is that I got a promotion at work. I’ve become the Content Manager overseeing development and content posting on the three DOD and Army websites that I’ve been developing on. Currently, I manage one temp and will be managing an intern when she arrives in a few weeks. Until I get the hang of all these new responsibilities, I’ll probably be spending my evenings trying to decompress.
Easter Egg: Website 13-16 (Don’t Run Into Stuff)
Most every version of my website has had an “easter egg,” or a hidden goofy something, which you can access by clicking in an unexpected location. Variations of this particular easter egg have been in Websites 13, 14, 15, and 16.
What’s unique about this egg is that it is recycled from an egg I put in a site a long, long time ago (which was accessible when I put this egg up, but isn’t anymore).
Regardless, the Forklift egg has now been retired and replaced with a newer, better egg.
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Thomas, Rob—Something to Be
I’ve been a big fan of Matchbox Twenty for years, and I responded to the news that front-man Rob Thomas was making a solo album with both anticipation and trepidation. I was thrilled with the musical direction that Thomas had taken Matchbox Twenty with their most recent album, More Than You Think You Are, but concerned that Thomas might take his solo career in a different direction.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.