The US space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was destroyed this morning before it was able to land. The exact cause is yet unknown.  The lives of its seven crewmembers were lost.  The word from a heartless Iraqi government employee is  "We are happy that it broke up."

That’s great, Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi.  Freaking great.  And I hope you’re just as freaking happy when your little piece-of-crap country is destroyed by the US because your narcissistic murder-dictator refuses to disarm.

I just moved my photos and my personal recordings to a new server -- one that’s hosted instead of running on my own computer. So they should be a bunch faster now, and anyone who had trouble connecting to them before should have no more trouble.

So go and check out my songs already!  No, seriously, check them out.  Pretty Melody, Neat, and Incorruptible are the best, and you can stream them!  No waiting!  Give them a few listens and they will become your friends for sure.

Grrr. Getting accosted by Mormons while trying to run... that doesn’t get it.

I didn’t know a lot about Mormons before last night, but they handed me a copy of their "Articles of Faith" so now I do.  They’re basically another Catholic church... they made up their own book of faith, but still claim to believe in the Bible... they believe that you need to do good works to be saved and that you need to be baptized to be saved... they even have some interesting random crazy beliefs like that the new Jerusalem will be built on the American continent.

Anyway, this just reaffirms my stance that I’ll never be a door-to-door salesman for Christianity.  It’s so intrusive and unwelcome and it immediately puts the vast majority of people on the defensive -- hardly an effective way to share your faith with them.  They kept asking me for my phone number and address so they could "get together with me and talk to me"... the first time I kinda went "hm" and changed the subject, the second time I gave an obviously-no "maybe" and the third time I said "no, I think I’d rather research this on my own, if you guys don’t mind."

I would agree, not that it’s hard to read, it’s just that the entire website starts looking a little dull with this light gray color. Blue is OK, though.  You might need some other additional color to make the page stand out.

New theme of lightness!

steev brought up a good point -- the blue is very light. So is the gray for that matter.  I’d like to know if anyone here finds it so light that it’s hard to read.

Also, did anyone notice the little bar of links at the top of the page, above the photos, where you can set the theme, and also see links to some of my friends’ webpages?  It’s pretty small (intentionally) so you might have missed it.

OK, now reply!

wow, i love the new layout, it looks really good. the blue is a little light, but it still looks good - i want my site to look like this

Mel Gibson is making a movie that depicts the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ. The purpose of the film is to be as accurate as possible. The film will be spoken in the languages of the time, Aramaic and Latin, without any subtitles. It is entitled "The Passion."

If this were a film about any other subject, Gibson would be the recipient of endless accolades, hailed as everything from innovative to revolutionary to genius.  But this film is about Jesus, so Hollywood and the liberal media are attacking Gibson’s character instead.  They’re prying into his personal and financial life and harassing his father.

It’s not surprising in any way -- Jesus himself told us we would be persecuted on his account -- but it’s just so... discouraging . At least Gibson is choosing to make the movie now, in the first deca of 2000. Fifty or one hundred years from now, it will probably be literally impossible to make such a film, because the government (US, or World) would have Gibson incarcerated or assassinated. Difficult as it will be, that is the future Christians face.

Spelunking with Nate, Trev, and the gang in Fieldtrip cave. If I don’t reply to this within a day, please send help.