Out of the mouths of babes! I was helping with our 5th and 6th grade celebration tonight when one of the kids asked the question, “What does it mean to be saved?” I know she was serious and I think the rest of kids wanted to hear the answer. They can be so inquisitive. Our leaders tried to answer the question quickly but I think it requires and deserves a much longer answer. At the time we were running late for our final activity of the evening. I must admit that I thought briefly about doing a brain dump of everything I know about Christianity. Instead I let the leaders do the talking and let the conversation end naturally. Tomorrow I will talk with the leaders and coach where necessary. She will get her answer and hopefully much more.
Magic finally has her foal!
Our mare, Weaver of Magic, finally had her foal. She was bred to Contucci and was two weeks overdue. The average gestation for our mares has been 350 days. She birthed at 364 days. We are still working on a 'C' name for him.
Web Site Optimization review. Smart people have said nice things about “Speed Up Your Site”. I have not read the book, but the markup on the book's companion site is impressively optimized. (356 words) [dive into mark]
The postings were interesting but not too useful. I cannot get thrilled with a recomendation to save three bytes by omitting “www” in links. I have routinely increased jpeg compression in image files on websites I have worked on. This one fix saves ten to twenty thousand bytes and I cannot see the difference between the compressed and non-compressed image. It is my personal preference but I prefer to keep sites simple. I prefer compatibility with standards/browsers and code readibility to minor increases in download speed.
Is seeing the Iraqi weather report funny to you?
Today I saw the Iraqi weather report on television for the first time and couldn't help but laugh. It was sandwiched between the traffic report and the local weather forecast. I guess inquiring minds want to know!
Today was an outdoor day. The weather was beautiful. Some of the maples have started to sprout. Spring is just around the corner.
The most important preparation, in a desert war…
This came in my email. I had to share it.
The most important preparation, in a desert war…
Pfc. David Kurns is baptized by Task Force Chaplain Capt. Ron Cooper, left, and 1st Lt. Brian Case, right, in the desert north of Kuwait City, Wednesday, March 12. Eight members of the 3rd Infantry Division were baptized in the desert last Wednesday.
Cleaning up Healthmon Pt. 2
Well, the network card is still giving me WMI errors. I now have a shortcut on my desktop so I can check all of the performance objects. Tcpip seems to forget I want to collect performance data. I found a Q that said the Tcpip performance collection is turned off. I made sure it was turned on and rebooted. I think I did all of this yesterday but I forget.
To clean up forgetfullness by the SBS Administrator Console I went into Author mode to configure the Server Status view. It seems to remember the counters I changed now.
- Added Page Faults, Uptime, and Queue Length.
- Removed old disk drive volumes
e e cummings. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” [Quotes of the Day]
Accessible tables: Tutorial: Made For All.
I found this on Buzz. This tutorial is one of the most practical tutorials for incorporating accessibility into tables.
Cleaning up Healthmon
- I cleaned up a WMI error on the network card by installing an updated driver.
- I cleaned up an Exchange alert by starting the Exchange Event Service
- I cleaned up the Max URLs alert by increasing the threshold.
It is interesting to note that after I rebooted the exchange virtual directories went back to their original configuration(lowercase path). This causes a red stop sign to appear but does not give you http 502 error when you try to expand it.