Book Reviews!
Thanks for reading this, 1st of all, and 2nd of all, thanks for still reading 
.
I have a few favorite books I’d love to write reviews of on this blog.
I don’t currently have enough time to write them all at once, so I’ll get your opinion in what interests you.
PrivacyChoice – Online Privacy Service
Web site Privacychoice rolls the opt-out routines for a couple dozen advertising networks into a single javascript button—so you can stop them tracking you without having to mess with cookie settings. from Lifehacker
Thunderbird
Some of you might have heard of Thunderbird, Mozilla’s E-mail application, and I’ve used it for about 3 years.
I think it’s the best mail client out there. (even over apple mail) for the following reasons :
- Great Search
- Integrated, or with Google Desktop.
- Superb Rich Text editor
- Very useful for basic formatting, to table’d email newsletters.
- Also, it has spellcheck, a MUST!
- Address book functionality
- Pretty Good and simple
- Spam filtering
- No spam has gotten through it, so I’m guessing it’s pretty good
- Good confirmation
- Too many times you accidentally send something out without an attachment, or meant to say something else, or sent it to the wrong person.
- Well, thunderbird asks if you wish to send something BEFORE you send it so you can look it over
- Great Themes and Extensions
- Need something? The chances for there to be an extension for it are great
- If you don’t like it’s default skin, there are numerous great themes in mozilla’s addons section.
- Anything else I missed?
- Great IMAP integration, easy yet comprehensive settings, snappy.
- It gets out of your way so you can read, sort and label email.
Phew! You can read more or download Thunderbird at MozillaMessaging.com
Paper on Postmodern Worship
Postmodern Worship,
The effects on the Church, changes, ideas and that of our culture from the modern times to postmodern times.Postmodern Worship Paper – Final PDF
Big BO Is Watching You!
Big BO Is Watching You! –
Suprise Button!
Do not drag this link to the bookmark bar (or to the bookmark toolbar). Do not go to another website and click it, you want to read it. Just a hint, Don’t panic with the mouse .
Ze BUTTON!
Smile, Move, Serve Happily!
Smile & Move™: A reminder to happily serve
A interesting video I found and thought you might enjoy!
Bookmark Managament
Until Recently, I haven’t really used bookmarks as much. I used to just remember how I get to a certain page and try to backtrack there because I haven’t bothered to mark them.
That took much of my time, so now I have discovered the power and helpfulness of bookmarks. It helps considerably when I need to find an obscure article again (relevant to stuff I do/like), or if I need to go back to a great-looking site for inspiration in design or code.
Another thing, is that I am using x-Marks for bookmark synchronization between firefox and online, so when I’m using someone else’s computer, I can still get all my bookmarks. I find the awesome bar in firefox very awesome, but I wish it had better integration with bookmarks.
Just speaking of organization, I really enjoy folders, drilling down right to what I need. It’s really hard for me to sort through fifty or so files in a folder, all unrelated, so I typically partion out what and where I need so I can find stuff again in the tree of my mind.
Using linux has been nice for this becuase Natilus is excellent, and one of my favorite features in it is the ability to quick-find and drill-down through folders using the first few letters of a file or folder, instead of one letter, which is hard if you have a lot of stuff in the folder.
My Screen-shot review of Nautilus, Gnome’s Desktop File Manager :
Gnome Filemanager Screenshot - Natilus Review
Learning PHP – xHTML – CSS
Do you want to learn how to write, tweak websites?
I’ve always liked computers, websites, and have recently started getting into PHP after learning xHTML and CSS.
Throughout this process, I’ve discovered lots of great resources and learned lots of great things.
Some of these are there is always something to learn or do. This stuff fascinates me.
If you are interested in learning more about (x)HTML (to get your feet wet 
), visit my favorite tutorial for getting started in (x)HTML (and no, it isn’t HTML for dummies) — http://htmldog.com. There, just thumb through the tutorials, do the exercises (if you wish).
Once you’ve done that, I’d recommend looking further at W3Schools and Tizag.com, both are more indepth, but they can help you find out how to do something and supplement what you’ve already done.
Then, consider reading the nettuts.com (great all-around tutorial website) and CSS Newbie (css help and interesting tutorials) and AlistApart.com (slightly more technical, but great archives, pioneering techniques).
Phew! Some fun stuff to look at for learning javascript, go to W3Schools’s tutorial and Tizag Tutorials. Then, look at jquery.com or another javascript framework, like Prototype Javascript. A good resource for jquery is http://jqueryfordesigners.com/.
And, some good PHP tutorials can be found in this article, I’ll get to more in depth ones later. — Nettuts PHP from Scratch.
If you still want links look at this article (which probably includes the kitchen sink ) – blog.themeforest.net.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment, and I’ll consider writing a tutorial or just emailing you if you need help.
When things quiet down around here, I’ll start writing my own tutorials here.
Good luck!
Piano Playing
I thought you might enjoy listening to some of my recent piano pieces.
Enjoy!
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