It has been a long time since I posted.  Here’s an update of what I’ve been doing: (more…)

I usually don’t talk much about political stuff on here even though I do have strong political opinions, but today I just had to talk about global warming. Al Gore has been bumping his gums for quite some time about global warming. As I look outside on this fine spring day, I see what you see in this picture below. You can click on the picture to see a larger view.

According to a local weather man’s blog, it has been 69 years since Dallas has received an April snow fall. You can see his complete article here. The same weather man has stated that there have been more deaths related to the cold than the heat here in the US. Check out that article here.  The weather man backs up his claims with other factual documents.  I think Al Gore should be traveling around talking about global freezing instead of global warming, don’t you? 

From time to time you come across some people who really go above and beyond their call of duty. I’m a person who loves to award people who are honest and who are really out to serve you. If I go to a restaurant and the service really stinks, I still tip good. But if I go to a restaurant and the service is super awesome, I tip really good.

I made a particular deal with someone at DP. They offered me a deal. I gave them an offer, and they met my offer with what I feel is worth twice as much as what I offered them. They went way beyond what I thought was fair. When people are like that, I feel compelled to do twice as much back for them. With all that said, I’m going to give them some advertising here in this post, plus I will add them to my blog roll, plus I will submit this persons directories in my directory. Here are the sites that belong to this particular person:

Linkchannels.com is a PR of 4 web directory that offers regular links for $5 and featured links for $10.  Link Channels is a very clean directory to submit your sites to.  It is a good idea to submit links to PR 3 and PR 4 directories because tomorrow, they could be PR of 5 and PR of 6 directories.

Articlevibe.com is a very well organized article directory where you can submit your articles to.  I once wrote an article about link building methods.  You can read up on it at this post.

Intersted in SEO, internet, gaming, and other technology related topics, check out this tech blog.  It is very clean, easy to read, and a full of interesting information.

I’ve come to realize with my schedule that I can’t spit out Wordpress themes fast enough to keep posts up at Webpuffs.net.  I’ve decided to allow the public to upload themes that they have created.  If you are a Wordpress guru and have some free themes that you are trying to distribute, feel free to submit them at my webpuffs.net site.

Webpuffs.net will be devoted to Wordpress.  I may even add a section for people to add plugins that they have created.

I got an email the other day from my hosting company that said they got acquired by another company.  24 hours later my old hosting company was gone and this site a long with a few others were down for nearly 24 hours.

I learned some valueable lessons from this:

1. I will back up my database and files on to my computer more frequently.  If this ever happens again, I will find a new host with in minutes.
2.  The host that I had wasn’t an extremely well known hosting company.  I will never again use a hosting company that isn’t better known.

My old hosting company was very awesome to work with.  I never had a problem with them.  But the transition to the new hosting company was horrible.  First they only gave me a 24 hour notice, which I didn’t see until most of my 24 hours were up and I couldn’t do anything about it.  Secondly, the new hosting company wasn’t ready to take in their newly acquired customers.  All I can say is holy cow, couldn’t you guys done a little bit better job than this?

Well, I got rid of the My Blog Log badge, at least for the time being. I can’t control people’s avatars so I’m taking it down. I’m going to look into to it to see if I can still have the badge, but leave the avatars off. I am not an advocate for porn, or anything that is in any way related to it.  I’ve had a couple avatars show up on My Blog Log tag that I did not feel were kosher.

Here goes a quick rant about porn.  Many of you who read my blog know that I do children’s ministry for a living.  In the time that I’ve been in ministry, I’ve seen marriages that have been destroyed by pornography.  And I’ve met kids who’s lives were in a downward spiral because of being exposed to it.  The world wonders why there are so many sex crimes committed.  The truth is, what a person puts in their heart comes out.  I could say more, but the bottom line is, I don’t want trashy pictures on my site.  Until I figure out (take the time to figure out) how to take the avatars off, I’m not going to display My Blog Log badge.