LaterComesQuickly

Do you mind if I rant for just a moment? kthx…

I am currently working on a website on a pretty tight schedule, but I have been been improving those mad coding skills of mine and am just about done. So I realize that I need to put the site through the paces and use http://browsershots.org/.

Basically BrowserShots renders your site in just about every browser/version possible and lets to see if there are any glaring issues.

So I run my tests and lo and behold… it displays correctly on over 50 different browser variants…except two…. Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6. Both very relevant since there are more than enough people still using them (well more 6 than anything)…

So tell me why is the entire design community still stuck designing websites that display correctly on outdated versions of Safari and yet one of the more used browsers in the world breaks every possible div…

meh. don’t let anyone fool you… there are reasons why many designers are driven to drink…

Happy Monday to all! Let us start off the work week with some thinking, doesn’t that sound fun?

In the last few months, I have been studying Buddhism off and on and as the majority of you know, I have been (and continue to be) a Christian since my adolescence. I am not studying Buddhism to convert to any new religion but instead I find that many of the concepts are helpful in my attempts to understand Christ’s teachings better.

Sidenote: Ghandi once said that “God is Truth”, but then later said that “Truth is God”. I believe that there are universal truths that are consistent in every pure religion, that these truths are laws as sure as gravity and physics. I believe that the teachings of Christ and Buddha can compliment each other to the benefit of those that practice either.
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Busy as all junk. Well that is not completely correct. Busy and distracted. I started all these blogs, a webcomic and it is a lot to maintain. I am trying to learn how to maintain a consistent energy level, but I think at the moment i am losing that battle. I had lost weight, gained it back. Was getting up at 7a daily….now i am struggling to get out of bed at 10. There is a definite ebb and flow to my life, but i haven’t got it mapped out just yet. I feel like I could be 5 times as productive but I need to find a pattern that works.

I will get there. Give me another week of this, and i will get all hyper to change my whole life again.

So I have been doing this super-evaluating-my-life stuff and am in the process of losing two things… weight and debt. I was going to be blogging here about it but I realize it would pretty much choke my other posts out sooooo i decided they all deserved their own pages.

DebtComesQuickly
FatComesQuickly

So I will leave this page to my artistic pursuits as well as anything I find interesting that’s not covered in those two sites.

A bit back I picked up a 50mm fixed lens for my lowly Digital Rebel. With an f-stop of 1.8, it may finally solve a lot of my issues in darker settings so i thought church would be the perfect place to take it for a roll.

All i have to say is when you can focus on someones nose and their jaw is out of focus…i LURV that depth of field.

Click here (or the photography link to the right) to view!

This is not a soliloquy
This is a plea
To be heard over the noise
And the shining city lights
The idle talk and the lonely nights
This is a call to understand
Something about the human race
Something that I’ve learned from grave
The ability to live

I don’t know all the answers
But I swear I’m trying as hard as I can
To find that light that people talk about
There’s some things left unsaid
When they shove you out into the world
I know theres better things than life
Than living without dreams

Have you ever woken up
With a sense of dread
About the coming day
That is going to be another of the same
And you’re the only one to blame
Wishing there was more
That life was like movies gleam
And less like a stifled scream
It wasn’t supposed to be like this

a scattered few in empty pews
is this a kingdom or is this a crisis
fire faint and flickered flame
give us warmth or hope or sight or shame
a call to cry until voices break
prayers past to point of shameful faith
its been so long since we’ve seen real
its been so long since we had to feel

whats the point of believing
if belief’s become the purpose
we fall down, we fall down
is faith an opiate for the masses
when does it cost something more
we fall down, we fall down

i’ve played the fool and my petty games
these failures hurt maybe you feel the same
i’m tired of looking in the mirror
and wishing the person looking back would change
hand to plow to golden cow
passive and just standing in the way
the tv teaches the gate is wide
whats the part that comes after the pride

everything i am and everything i have
they all have come from You
and are Yours to recieve

and i will put my trust in You
and i will hold my head up high
i will place my faith in Your love for me
You are the Lord who comforts me

treasures i have found are the things i now lay down
all that is dear to me
is now Yours to recieve

and i will put my trust in You
and i will hold my head up high
i will place my faith in Your love for me
you are the Lord who comforts me

and through these tears, i’ll find my peace & joy
risen and renewed
my heart restored and given hope
by the beauty found in You…