Journal Entry

Another day

September 18, 2008 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

I was able to swim and do a little running. Installed wordpress on my local machine. don’t know why I haven’t done that before. It was easy now I am going to have to set it up to show people for examples and more testing.

swimming 1500 meters

5 x 50 bk/br

5 x 50 bk/fr

2 x 50,100,200,100,50

Then I ran out of time and had to quit. Maybe tomorrow. Lucky me, I can swim outside so I am getting a bit of a tan. But the weather is turning colder here in Austin, the water was perfect for swimming. We’ll see how long I’ll be able to swim in the unheated pool.

Dark Days

September 17, 2008 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

This was me at Noon Today!

Today was hard with the job situation. I picked up a freelance web job on Friday. However, over the last couple of days it has become apparent the company is in a bit of disarray. So about noon I could see the freelance thing is not going to work out. Mentally this was quite a strain. I just couldn’t get my exercise/workout going. I will have to get it in tomorrow.

The light at the end of the tunnel is showing a bit because a company I had scheduled an appointment with last week is ready to sign up for a web site tomorrow.

They have a great dry-cleaning business. I will post a link or a picture of their site when it’s finished.

when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when…

Today's wanderings

September 15, 2008 by D. Gardner 2 Comments

Started the day off at about 6AM. Met with a group of sales people for TravelHost a travel advertizing magazine. it’s a national magazine that is printed by area. Shane Dimon is the Associate Publisher. It’s something I am looking at right now.

I swam and then after swimming I was able to log onto the freelance site and get a $30 job and a $500 job ,we will see how that works out. I also spoke with a company that may commit to a web site on Thursday. I’ve got several other leads.
Today I took some water with me and that help so I could do a little running after. But not much. More running will be later.

I then did some swimming 4000 meters.
5 x 50 back/breast
5 x 50 breast/free
500 free
10 x 100 free
1 x 50,100,150,200,500,200,150,100,50
1 x 50,100,200,100,50

New/Better Interpretation from Bishop Kelly

September 14, 2008 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

Today was ward conference in the Anderson Mill ward in Austin Texas.

The first speaker was Bishop Kelly. He identified to us a mis-interpretation of the scripture from Matthew 13:45-46

45 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The bishop said he had believed that this parable identified us as the merchant and that we were to be looking for this “pearl of great price” that we should give up all we have to get this pearl of great price. I too have always thought this was a good explanation, and it still is a good view. However, if we look at verse 45 it says “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man”. If Christ is the Kingdom of heaven he is the one that paid the great price and we are the pearl. It makes the scripture even more meaningful. We are pearls, worth a great price to our maker.

The second Speaker was Stake President Dickson.
He started off reading a bit from King Benjamin’s address in Mosiah and exhorted the audience to read the 4 chapters of his message.

He mostly said we need to endure to the end.
One insight that he gave was about President Kimball’s “Lengthen Your stride” motto. President Kimball indicated that we must not go fast and then burn out but use tranquil steady dedication to the gospel during one’s life time.
He also talked about Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail and the Lords admonition “All things shall be for thy good”…”Hold thy way”… “Fear not what man can do”.

While I believe these words didn’t bring much comfort to Joseph at the time. I believe they helped Joseph after the trial realize the importance of the suffering. I too am not too comforted during the trial when I hear “All things shall be for thy good.” Only later will I more clearly realize what I learned. At that time I am grateful for my trial and what I learned.

Web Site Building – Simple is best

September 8, 2008 by D. Gardner Leave a Comment

Today I went out and chatted with a couple of people about web sites. It seems that all businesses know they need one and do what they can about getting them set up. However, there seems to be a bunch of people getting friends they know to set up sites.

From what I have seen in my over 5 years or working with web applications is that lots of people get into the web and discover that setting up a web site is pretty easy. However, pretty sites are not easy to setup. Plus if you want them to do a cool thing or two then it becomes so much harder. Years to learn Harder.

Web Applications take vision, knowledge and a bunch of hard work. But that is where the world is going to be changed. The World will be changed one web application at a time. There are already tons of web applications that have changed the world. Google, and there ever expanding applications. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and many many others.

But for the average web needs there are web applications that can be installed and configured to make your web presents so much easier. Come on in the water’s Fine.