Thu - Apr 02, 2009 : 02:05 pm
okay
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Projects Are Officially Dead
PoeticIntensity
I've been debating on whether or not to write about this, and if I write about it, whether or not to make it public.
Well... As you can see, I decided to make it public. and to write about it.
I came to work two days ago with the intent on working on the last of the original PHP projects still having a chance on making it through the me...
Life / Nature's Way / Personal
Wed - Apr 01, 2009 : 03:16 pm
caffeinated
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ILMJ Photo System?
PoeticIntensity
(announcement)
So lately I haven't had any major projects going on involving programming, and I started to miss it, so I decided to act upon a thought I had about a month ago.
That thought consisted of me wanting a definitive answer to my almost 10,000-photo collection of digital images which seems to keep growing, and staying totally unorganized.
So, two day...
I Love My Journal
Thu - Mar 26, 2009 : 09:54 pm
content
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Tuning My Snare Drum
PoeticIntensity
(how-to)
Well... Yesterday, a friend of mine had told me he had the privilege of being formally taught how to tune a snare drum.
I read what he had to say (he posted it on facebook, so if you're not his friend, I imagine you can't read it, but here's the link anyway)
So, today, I went and investigated a bit of whether I could get the proper tool...
Drums / Music
Mon - Mar 23, 2009 : 10:00 am
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Alma : 17
PoeticIntensity
The beginning of this chapter is one of my favorites. I love verse 2 and 3.
True friendship, at least in my case, is always born of spiritual origin. The friends I've had that have lasted have always had a solid spiritual foundation. And yes... Finding that old friends have kept the faith and increased in the knowledge of the Lo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 22, 2009 : 12:52 pm
spiritual
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Alma : 16
PoeticIntensity
The main thing that stuck out in this chapter was obviously the destruction of Ammonihah. As I've stated in a previous post, I find it so interesting that one of the judges of Ammonihah was the one who mentioned that "even if thou shalt declare this city shall be destroyed in one day, we shall not believe it." It was as if the...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 22, 2009 : 12:15 pm
no mood
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Alma : 15
PoeticIntensity
How in the world do you do what Alma and Amulek did in verse 2? Honestly, I don't know. Also, another perspective is - how in the world do you take what Alma and Amulek just said? It'd have to be something like, "Yeah, we were just in Ammonihah, after you guys were thrown out, and we had to endure watching the kings and pries...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 22, 2009 : 12:02 pm
spiritual
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This Morning...
PoeticIntensity
Well.. Yesterday, I was running on what I thought would be a low tank of sleep, but I didn't really ever get tired. I ended up having a fairly full day, spending most of the afternoon with Steve, and then practicing with Plan B from 7:30 until 10pm. Man, what a blast that is. I love playing with them. I love music.
Anyway, I arrived ho...
Life / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Mar 19, 2009 : 11:34 pm
happy
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Obama on Jay Leno
PoeticIntensity
While my wife and I were watching The Office tonight, we got wind of President Obama being on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, so we decided to stay up to watch it.
Well, I just got done watching it, and before I forget, I have to write down some initial thoughts.
To begin, I am by absolutely no means whatsoever any source of any credible politi...
Personal / Politics
Tue - Mar 17, 2009 : 02:46 pm
happy
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Outlook Calendar Events in PHP
PoeticIntensity
Man, the weather's getting nice out there... Makes me not want to program. Yet, here I am.
Today I had the task of somehow getting a PHP-generated web app to generate an Outlook appointment based on database information, and have it work.
Turns out that 2 hours later, I have it functioning perfectly, thanks, in large part to this bl...
Computers / Linux / Programming
Sun - Mar 15, 2009 : 04:42 pm
grateful
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Random Ramblings...
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... It's that time again. I've gotta sit here and see where the keyboard attached to my brain takes me. I wonder how many people could do this. I mean, I've always been kind of the weird one of the bunch - and I'm okay with that.
When I came up with the idea to have an on-line journal (about the time that the whole...
Life / Music / Personal
Thu - Oct 30, 2008 : 02:19 pm
content
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Mosiah : 28
PoeticIntensity
The first thing I thought of when reading this chapter was, "Man, if my teenagers (or young adults) came to me and asked if they could go to a nation bent on destoying ours, and teach them the Gospel. Man... My initial reaction would definitely be one of incredulity. No wonder they had to pester Mosiah for so long before he'd even ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sat - Mar 22, 2008 : 09:21 pm
sick
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2nd Nephi : 29
PoeticIntensity
Wow... What a testimony of the Book of Mormon, and of the prophets who wrote it.
This whole chapter is a rebuke against people who don't accept the Book of Mormon. Reading chapters like this strengthens my testimony concerning the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. I mean, what are the chances, if the Book of Mormon were false,...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 08, 2009 : 10:12 am
amazed
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Hard Drive Crisis
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So three days ago (that would be Saturday morning), I found that my server was having weird problems. I was getting an I/O error when I tried to start a movie for my daughter. Yeah, that can't be good. I'd seen that problem before when LVM got out of sync somehow (after about 6 months of uptime), and decided to reboo...
Computer Hardware / Computers / Linux
Sun - Jan 08, 2006 : 03:58 pm
no mood
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Hoorah! Our wellness spell is over!
PoeticIntensity
Yup.. the Jones' family is now over its span of multiple-month's good health and have plunged into the wonderful month of January's sickness.
We've all got some sort of weird light-flu-type bug, and it's not happy. Luci hasn't smiled all day and none of us went to church today. Ohwell... such is life. I hope I can work tomorrow.
We'll see how...
Tue - Jun 22, 2010 : 11:57 am
grateful
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3 Nephi : 4
PoeticIntensity
This chapter is great. All I gotta say is, if you follow the counsel of the Lord, all will be well.
Oh, yeah, also - Zemnarihah had to have had a brain about the size of a peanut. Great way to get all of your people killed....
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Sun - Dec 02, 2007 : 01:22 pm
grateful
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Happy 5th Anniversary, Jason
PoeticIntensity
When will I ever learn to trust my wife, my brother, and my instinct? Probably never.
You see, Ryan, my brother, noted how bald the tires are on my Mustang GT about a month ago. My wife also noted the same thing, as well as a pretty big storm coming this weekend. Anyway... I'll get on with the story.
Sarah and I celebra...
Personal
Fri - Oct 07, 2011 : 12:31 pm
tired
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Moroni : 7 - Part 1
PoeticIntensity
I am SO glad that Moroni kept writing. Can you imagine the Book of mormon without the last 4 chapters of Moroni? The depth of explanation of faith, hope, and charity? The blessing of Babies? The promise and invitation to read the Book of Mormon, used by all missionaries? Yeah... There are some gems here in ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Feb 15, 2008 : 12:19 am
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 5
PoeticIntensity
First thing which caught my attention this time around is verse 6.
I relate that verse to the way the Lord works. Basically, God lets everyone know about his plan, and those who believe Him will follow him.
This makes me wonder if Nephi, through some sort of parable, told Laman and Lemuel what he was planning to do as well, but they didn'...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Apr 13, 2009 : 11:39 pm
content
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Gphoto2 / Gnome Problem
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Sometimes I hate open source. Most times I love it, but sometimes I hate it.
I recently updated my gentoo gnome installation to 2.24.2, and didn't think much of it. I then tried to connect my Nikon S210 digital camera to my usb port and perform the simple task of importing photos. I have done this probably 100 t...
Computers / Linux
Fri - Feb 10, 2006 : 09:49 pm
no mood
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R00t3d...
PoeticIntensity
Oh... My... Goodness...
I can't think of where to begin, so I'll just start typing.
Two days ago we decided it was time to cut the umbilical for the other guys who were the old I.T. team for the company I work for. We did so by changing all passwords (or so I thought), and that's about it. We thought we had em'.... So.... We all went home and...
Sun - Mar 22, 2009 : 12:02 pm
spiritual
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This Morning...
PoeticIntensity
Well.. Yesterday, I was running on what I thought would be a low tank of sleep, but I didn't really ever get tired. I ended up having a fairly full day, spending most of the afternoon with Steve, and then practicing with Plan B from 7:30 until 10pm. Man, what a blast that is. I love playing with them. I love music.
Anyway, I arrived ho...
Life / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 12:09 pm
spiritual
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Jacob 2
PoeticIntensity
I honestly hope I'm never in the position to deliver a speech as the one Jacob records in this chapter. Holy moly.
He condemns pride, people seeking after riches, and chastity breakers to a degree not many other speeches can.
I wonder if the words he wrote were the same words he used in the speech, because a lot of the metaphors he uses a...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Nov 21, 2007 : 02:47 pm
happy
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Women's Roles / LDS Beliefs
PoeticIntensity
A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in my car driving to and from Salt Lake City. During the trip, I had the opportunity to listen to one of the best talks on Women's Roles in the LDS faith. I was so impressed by the contents of this talk, I had to listen to the entire thing twice.
Both times, both my heart and my eyes were fille...
Lds / Personal
Sun - Dec 06, 2009 : 01:16 pm
sick
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What's With Snow and Me?
PoeticIntensity
Today, I woke up to about 6-10 inches of fresh powdery snow all over the place. It's actually beginning to feel like Christmas time, now!
Now, most normal people would say within themselves, "Man, I hate snow on the roads.", but not me.
I'm not entirely sure why I'm this way, but it's been this way ever since I can remem...
Life / Personal
Wed - Sep 10, 2008 : 11:39 am
okay
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Ads on ILMJ
PoeticIntensity
(announcement)
I just wanted to let you all know I'm experimenting with putting ads on ILoveMyJournal. I've been paying a bit too much to host the various sites I put up, so I'm seeing if I can re-coup any of it through ads.
If you want to get rid of the ads, simply log in. As soon as you log in, all ads should disappear.
I'm not 100% sure if I'm ...
I Love My Journal
Wed - Jul 18, 2007 : 12:12 am
content
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Luhn "Mod 10" Algorithm
PoeticIntensity
Whenever I do credit card checking, I always end up searching for longer than it would take me to create it myself, so... without further ado, here's the Luhn, or "Mod 10" algorithm for validating credit card numbers.
function mod_10($cc) {
$reversed_string = strrev($cc);
$string_array = str_sp...
Tue - Dec 15, 2009 : 10:25 pm
tired
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Fedora 12 - Getting Closer
PoeticIntensity
Well... I'm not quite as frustrated tonight as I was when I tried to do with Ubuntu, that which I am now trying with Fedora 12.
I installed Fedora 12 on my laptop from the install DVD, and I've gotta say, Fedora, neither in the installation, nor in running the OS, was as slick as Ubuntu. Ubuntu was quite a bit more polished, I'...
Gentoo / Linux
Wed - Nov 19, 2008 : 09:39 pm
happy
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What I Miss Most
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I've told many people this, but I'm not sure I've told you. If I have, suck it up and listen to it again.
When I got married almost 6 years ago, I was preparing for the worst. People told me that marriage was a jar to the system, the knock-out punch, the "learning" experience, and many other metaphors basica...
Children / Family / Life
Tue - Mar 25, 2008 : 09:51 pm
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 32
PoeticIntensity
This chapter, to me, is all about following the Spirit.
Verses 3 and 5 are among the most potent in all of scripture.
"Feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do."
"...the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do."
Doesn't get any clear...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Dec 24, 2008 : 10:33 am
excited
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Snow? On Christmas?
PoeticIntensity
I cannot remember the last time it actually full-on snowed on Christmas day. For the past 5 years or so, there have been seasons where it almost snowed and threatened to snow, but it's always been a disappointment.
This year, however, I believe there's hope. At least that's what the weather people are saying. Let's cross our fi...
Fun / Life / Personal