A Week in front of the Computer is Followed by...

a weekend in front of the computer. If it wasn't bookwork, it was blogging and keeping up to speed on the blogs or programming.

The webhost I use for the websites I run is real dodgey of late.

While I went out on the web and found a number of website monitoring websites if you wanted something more than one website and once per hour monitoring and multiple alerts you had to pay for it.

So today I set out and started working on my own web-monitor system. I have a basic PERL script setup so it can read a webpage and pick off a text phrase in the page.

While it is doing this it tries to take measure of the response time. However, the timer I am currently using does not have sufficient resolution so I did a little digging and found another approach (that will have to await).

Hehehe, got home from church and ran my little monitor system and it found my websites.

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down!

At least I got caught up on my bookwork. Still more to do but its moving along.

Tomorrow back on the road.

This is News?

THAT UW Professor once again is in the news. You know who and you know why, its all over the news.

Why is that news?

Isn't what he said/says common leftist belief/rhetoric? Heck driving around this city I am used to seeing all sorts of bumper stickers saying similar things.

Wacademia.

Its late Sunday night, the Packers lost again and I am up again in front of my Slackware workstation listening to organ music on WCPE via internet feed.

However, one thing is different.

. The People's Cube is a great website and does some real serious spoofing of leftoids:

Another leader of social progress has been murdered by American war criminals today. The Left movement has lost a prominent comrade who helped us fight US imperialism at home and abroad.

Every glorious beheading and school bus explosion he committed was cherished by human rights activists as another proof of the cynical nature of the Bush administration. Just like Che Guevara before him, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will be remembered by generations of progressives who will make sure his legacy lives on. A commemorative T-shirt has been produced and is recommended as casual wear after a 7-day official mourning period is over.

Source: During the 2004 election People's Cube people dressed up in the part and made up signs in the manner of their website. Democrats couldn't tell they were being spoofed. A self parody.

Anyway its time to reform my state of consciousness (hey, if the left can call cutting running redeploying I can euphamize going to sleep as well).

Glory be to the Father.

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The Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen

Many of you may recognize that as a common prayer of Catholicism.

The first part obviously gives proper homage to the triune God.

The second part contains volumes of wisdom even the most hardcore atheist should be able to recognize and acknowledge. I recite this prayer more and more as I age.

I can not find any sources (I want to say it was Jonah Goldberg but can't find any specific articles by him) but it has been said there are no new ideas in the world.

That is to say, human nature is well understood and coded into tradition and our religions.

The modern left fights this idea and claims they have new ideas all the time. They never do.

They find intrinsic human folly and try to explain it away with so many atoms and molecules.

Human beings have been around for eons and societies and belief systems have had enough time to incorporate the strengths and follies of humanity into a code. The poor will always be among us is one observation that bears mention.

They will. The story of the Garden of Eden (Innagaddadeveeda honey) is first and foremost one of human arrogance. Humans in their suredness of what is right and wrong, what is good evil make bad judgments.

We all make decisions where we know what is right and what is wrong and sometimes we pick what is wrong. Sometimes the wrong decisions are minor and lead to minor pain and setbacks sometimes those decisions lead to disaster (drug use, pre-marital sex etc).

The lesson all religions try to teach their followers is we are flawed and despite all the progress we think we make in terms of scientific understanding we will never obtain the PERFECTION religion puts in front of us (i.

e. God). However, most religions don't pretend they can perfect humanity.

How can an institution run or interpreted by imperfection create perfection?

I Don't Want to go to Bed!

One of the treats of being home (aside from basking the warm sunshine of the love of my dear Empress) is working on my computer here at home. You see, I have a very wonderful radio station bookmarked in my media player's list.

24 hours a day.

.. Another cliche I detest!

However, they play classical music all day long. No NPR news no leftist bilge just occasional begging, messages on behalf of their supporters, and the occasional emergency alert. Tonight I heard and amber alert and I have heard sever weather alerts as well.

However, that aside right now they are playing some Handel with a chorus, how sweet it is.

Now, some of you may say. Big deal?

What's is so "sweet" about listening to classical music over the internet? Well, I suppose many are thinking they would rather listen to Upchuck Kitties or Led Zeppelin or Travis in the Saddle or whatever. And some of you may say what is so spetacular about listening to music over the internet.

I can not do it at work nor can I do it from my hotel room. However, as I write this to you sublime music is bathing my senses. Music that makes me feel as if Heaven has come down to me, music that was originally written over 200 years ago.

Do you think Ozzy Osborne will still have a following 200 years from now? I don't think even the Beatles will be much more than a museum curiosity then, however I wager Handel's Messiah will still echo through concert halls the world over during Christmas season, even if those in the first church of secularism are able to wipe out traditional Christian holidays.

Hehe as it was in the Middle Ages it may be in the later ages.

The only way people will learn of Christianity and its stories may be through song.