History

I have been attempting for a week now to write about something I realized in Sunday school last week.  What I realized is that the troubles the world are experiencing are the result of moral decay of society.  Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, wars, tsunamis, terrorist activity, and market instability all due to moral decline.   As the events of this week transpired, mostly market unrest. The basic cause of this is moral decline.  While I don’t think I am a prophet, I due believe I can have a voice in warning people to pay attentions to the signs.

In  last weeks Sunday school the topic discussed was  chapters 8-11 of 3rd Nephi.  It was brought up that all the calamity that befell the Nephites that had been prophesied by Samuel the Lamanite(check out Helman 14).

The instructor leading the discussion asked how does this relate to our day?  I realized that the world is now facing problems, like the peoples of old, that are a result of people disregarding the commandments.  I believe many have seen this and already realized it before.

However, I want to right this as a testament to my posterity that I recognized the signs of the times.

I think I am going to start a category called signs of the times and as I observe things that I believe are signs of the times I will add them to my blog.

I started my mission almost 20 years ago.  Today I got an e-mail from my first mission president that had a link to the newest mission presidents blog.  So I have included that in my cool links.  He’s already got a couple great pictures on his blog.

I should find one of my mission pictures to scan.

Another day spent hacking up WordPress.  Slowly but surely I am getting deeper into the guts of word press.  It really is able to do a bunch of cool stuff.  And it is getting more and more like a web site management tool and less and less just a blog.  It really does make it easier to setup and mange websites.

Just testing one of the new plugins I installed

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I worked on several websites today and didn’t get out to do anyselling.  It was good to sit down and do some design work.  I swam 4700 meters today.  I had to stop when I got a cramp in my calf.

I also found some more plugins for wordpress.

One thing that I learned today is that the whole process of manufaturing microchips on silicon wafers is done in a vacuum.  Because everything is so small that free molecules interfere in the process.  Charles Next door neighbor here in Austin, Spencer.  Works in his family business selling the pumps that create the vacuum for this manufacturing.  He also said that space has a better vacuum than we can create here on earth.  When space travel become cheaper chips will be manufactured in space.