:: Friday, August 09, 2002 ::
Site design: take two. I've revised the "Hooked on the Net" site. You can see the work in progress here or click on the screen shot below.
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Site design: input needed. Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your URLs! I've been putzing around with a design for a new website. It's the companion site for my soon-to-be-published book, and I would love your input on what I've done so far. I know many of you faithful readers are experts in web design, and no slouches when it comes to usability, so I hope you can offer a bit of feedback (experts and non-experts alike). Below is a screen shot, which is linked to the test page (warning: none of the links on the test page work yet, so you can't do much usability testing):
For those of you who, for some reason or other, refuse to click on that image, here's a text link to the test page. I'm planning to turn the site into a blog, in order to give it a bit of stickiness -- and because there just isn't enough information out there about Internet addiction.
Do you love it? Hate it? Drop me a line!
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:: Thursday, August 08, 2002 ::
Friday Five time. I haven't done one of these in ages. Thought I'd give this one a spin.
1. Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it? Hmm...two questions in one. That makes this a Friday Six. But I digress. I drive a 1995 Dodge Avenger. (It's red and looks sort of like this guy's.) Occasionally my wife lets me drive "her" 2001 Toyota Highlander.
2. Do you drive very often? I drive to work daily, and drive most weekends.
3. What's your dream car? This baby!
4. Have you ever received a ticket? Yes. But enough about that.
5. Have you ever been in an accident? Yes. As a reckless teen, I was in several. Then I went for years without an accident until a couple of years ago, when I hit a patch of ice on the road on our way to church one Sunday morning and spun out of control. Fortunately, I was driving my wife's car at the time, a Toyota Avalon. The Avenger remains unscathed.
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Defunct domains. Memo to Dean Peters: Still lusting after one of my domain names? Sorry, buddy. It ain't available. But according to this Salon article, askbabyjesus.com is. Link via Space Waitress.
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:: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 ::
Yet another award for moi. Any blogger can get an award from weblog wannabe. Here's mine:
I'm off to write my acceptance speech.
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:: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 ::
Flotsam and jetsam. Here's what has washed up on the beach this morning:
Could it be...Satan? Now I know what's causing that low virtual memory on the Windows NT server at work. Thanks to weblog wannabe for the link.
One big happy family. I forgot to mention all of my blog siblings in yesterday's BlogTree post. They are: Wendy Cooper, The Hockey Pundits, Joshua Sargent, Lakeview Church's Discipleship Weblog, DashHouse, In a mirror, dimly, Laura's Mind, looking back...looking forward, the book of paige, Quantum Tea, relapsed catholic and Bridge blog. They are mostly Canadians. How did this Basque-Mexican-American get in there? I must have a Canadian soul. I am extremely polite, after all.
Messy spirituality. What happened when I went to church was they edited out all the stuff in the Bible so that when I heard the story of Noah I was always just thrilled to hear about this man who believed in God—the only guy who believed in God. They didn't mention that when he got off the boat he got drunk and got naked. They never told that. Thank God they didn't put that on a flannelgraph, but I'm here to tell you that I never heard that story. From a Christianity Today interview with Mike Yaconelli, the founder of Youth Specialties and author of the book Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People. Here's a PDF file of the intro.
New "Sesame Street" characters. HIV positive muppets are so passe. More socially relevant characters are on their way. From Modern Humorist.
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Search me. There's something very disturbing about being the top-ranking site in this search.
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:: Monday, August 05, 2002 ::
It's a bouncing baby blog! Thanks to BlogTree, bloggedy blog is now the proud parent of one blog, Chi Alpha@Stanford. This blog shares the honor with three other sites: /. (oh, how cool I am to use "/." instead of spelling out "slashdot"), Heal Your Church Web Site (man, what Dean won't do for a gratuitous plug on my blog), and TheOoze. Proud grandparents, on bloggedy blog's side of the house, are ChristianityToday Weblog, Holy Weblog! and Jordon Cooper, a veritable blog patriarch with eight baby blogs to his credit.
Here's my BlogTree genealogy.
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New discoveries. I'm happy to see that Glen and Paula Davis have started blogging. I met Glen at Search Party 2002 and he's a great guy. Glen also runs a blog related to his ministry, Chi Alpha @ Stanford, and posts an impressive list of scientists who are also professing Christians.
Another new addition to my blogroll: Daniel Miller's site, discovered via Jordon Cooper. Speaking of Jordon, I wonder how his Simpsons Sermon went?
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Should it stay or should it go? 100 albums you should remove from your collection immediately. Link via Shift. Although I love The Clash, I'm pleased to eport that I had the good sense to dump Combat Rock long ago.
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Simon Dawes, 
