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Sat 8 May 2004

O, Wretched Man!

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Pray for me. I’m having a kind of day, .

 

Mon 3 May 2004

I'm back, and who cares?

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Sorry, folks. Long dry spell. I don’t blame anyone for leaving permanently. I don’t even check my referrer log regularly anymore. I mean, who cares if someone from Google accidentally stumbled across looking for something that you know they didn’t find on your page. Just look at the query and you can tell.

I get the “disadvantage of email” one a lot. I wrote a post about the disadvantage of posting via Radio’s email-to-weblog feature. I don’t even remember what I said about it, but that one gets a lot of hits.

I’ve been consolidating my blogs, well, mentally at least. All of that has been cooking around in my brain for some months, but I’ve been unable or even unmotivated to bother with it. I’m letting several of my domain registrations lapse. Just too many good intentions. That’s what I can say about my life in general. I need to really reflect and find a way to focus on living a richer

life, not a “fuller” one. Yes, I mean “fuller” in the way you feel after Thanksgiving dinner–too full–stuffed. And I’ve been one stuffed turkey!

I appreciate those who bothered to blogroll or link me so many moons ago when I was prolific (but not profound). Here are a few that I can name:

That’s all for now. Shouldn’t I feel better?

 

Sat 10 May 2003

First post to Tech Blogs for God

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This is my first post to this weblog. My name is Jeff Miller, and I have decided to take up on his offer: he wants to the on . I have decided to make it straight-forward by setting up a special weblog just for that purpose. I will post my “technoCache” entries to this weblog, and whenever Dean chooses to use them (combined with when I actually manage to do one), it is a simple matter of transferring content. RSS news aggregation makes this a snap. If you would also be interested in moderating, please .

 

Fri 9 May 2003

Listed again

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Whether Dean is being benevolent or just dutiful, I will call it gracious. He has completed my listing on blogs4God.org (I thought it was .com, but I’m sure all the normal TLD’s have been reserved). Yes, he did put me back near the top on the uptime list. Maybe sometimes it’s useful to blow off a little steam.

While I’m at it, I must mention something that I really respect about Dean (I’m just being specific here; not that there’s only one thing). Dean is a thinking man’s man. He turned me on to some helpful books for “thinking Christians.” If you hadn’t noticed the thinker statues in my current site design, the intellectual life is one that is of great importance to me.

Upon his recommendation, I have purchased Love God With All Your Mind and Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It. I’m not done with the books yet, but I like what I’ve read so far. I just realy–pause–Really–pause-REALLY need to take a gander at the two other books he keeps referencing. And just to keep sharing the love, I’ve used his affiliate links whenever possible for this post.

I also bought Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling after Amazon recommended it in the “also bought” section for Love God With All Your Mind.

Oh, and one more *very important* thing I have to thank Dean for: a good laugh. During my due diligence research for this post, I had a long overdue return visit to one of all-time favorite websites: Strong Bad E-mail at HomestarRunner.com. I watched these clips.

 

Wed 7 May 2003

Shocking! I've withdrawn from Blogs4God; to be continued?

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Well, here it is. I deleted my listing from the techblogs category at blogs4God. Now, that’s not to say that somehow, I’m unsatisfied with b4g or anything. I’m not when engaging in .

No.

I deleted my listing because I am . A couple of considerations here:

1.) , slightly different name.
2.) An excuse to relist instead of edit my existing entry, which by default, would make my weblog (new and improved) appear near second on the list. Dean sorts the list by uptime as the default. Now, his (very excellent by the way) is always listed first in the regardless of sort criteria selected. I know that’s Dean’s brand of shameless self-promotion. He’s always been much better at it than I have. My brand of self-promotion is always bashful and hesitant–never gets the results you would hope for, believe me!

Now, I’m sure Dean has a decent memory. at b4g if I so desire. He’s even responded to about his . I fear, however, that I have , and generally cried wolf one too many times. And then I did the worst thing possible. . Yep, we’re talking about slim pickin’s for months at a time.

I’m sure Dean should understand. After he’s the first person I “heard” (read) say, He even enlightened me about by pointing out the 80/20 principle at work in the church world. Or is it 20/80 in this case? Whatever. Still, .

Well, real life has trumped my blogging for a while, but now I am making strides. No, that’s not the same as making promises, so don’t (foolishly) think that I am.

I’m just a little puzzled. Does Dean realize that I’ve deleted myself and re-added myself. Does he believe this is some kind of ploy not worth acknowledging or responding to, even if just to add my link back into the game. Heck, I thought he might have even gotten a little annoyed and bothered with putting my weblog back in it’s original position just for spite. But then again, he’s got real life to deal with. I’m kidding myself.

I’ve checked the techblogs category for some time now, a week or more even. Still nothing. Did I mess up the submission process? Hmmm… Well, no bother. I’ll continue to make strides. I’m beginning to attempt to care less than I used to about what people think of this weblog. I figure if I want people to visit, then I should post more frequently, have to say (to the ), and spread my copious links to more famous bloggers until I run out of “celebrities” to annoy.

I do have a new resolve. And that is to re-acquaint myself with the folks in techblogs. There are plenty of newcomers and recent additions. Maybe there are some folks much more worthy of an in the than I could ever hope to be. And those folks do indeed need to be recognized. I say, if you have a gift, use it. I also say, if someone else has a gift, help them use their gift too. Credit where credit is due, right?

God is working all things together for my good, and I love Him. And I know that he will be faithful to complete the work that he has started in me.

 

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