well folks, the time has come.... this blog is officially moving to blog.zachjones.net. come on by and give 'er a check. leave me some comments on what you think!!!

just remember, I just set it up, so I'm still finalizing design and filling out pages and all that...

no Barak ads here!!!

okay, so I've been playing around with google adwords (a little extra cash is always welcome ;-), and so, as a test, I set up a "skyscraper" ad and put in on my homepage of my website (I figured since I was redoing the whole website soon, it wouldn't hurt for a few ads to be there for a little bit).

So every time I check out my homepage I see a different ad. It's actually kinda intriguing. But boy was I surprised to see Barak Obama in the skyscraper today. I was a little irritated that someone whom I do not support was able to advertise on my website. Irritated, that is, until I realized it was actually a McCain ad criticizing Obama. Now that's better. I can live with that.

Updating website...

for those of you who visit my website or were thinking about visiting, this is just a heads up to let you know that I'm switching some services around on it, and it'll probably be down for at least a day or so (maybe more depending on my schedule...). Within the next week or so I'll officially bet switching this blog over to it, but I'll let you know when that's going down.

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Interesting Video about the truth

came across this on youtube, it was made by the same guys that did the Christian/Christ-Follower parody of the Mac/PC commercials. Very interesting, actually. Just wanted to share.



Now, in this time of political campaigns, the truth is of utmost importance. And the reality is, both Barak and McCain seem to enjoy sharing only their perspective of the truth. They both seem to believe that altruism can replace egotism, but they are missing one essential element - God. They believe man to be innately good. Yeah...'bout that... Would there be so many problems abounding in our country and world if man were naturally good?

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Stayin' alive with CPR

You're probably wondering what in the world this blog is about. Well, I heard this interesting thing on the radio, that scientists or medical people somewhere had discovered the best way to administer CPR to heart attack victims. (I guess pumping the heart is different when the victim has suffered a heart attack). Well anyways, the rate at which you are supposed to pump their heart, compressions if you will, is 100 per minute. That's a lot! But the interesting part is that the most effective way to hit this rate is...to sing a song. What song you ask? "Stayin' Alive", by the Bee Gees, of course.

Am I joking? Check it out for yourself.

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Well, I had a good post...

yeah, while I was riding my cart around today at work I came up with no less than two really good posts for my blog...and now I can't remember one. After working on papers and now I've been sucked into watching this stupid Crusoe show on NBC with some faux pirate (who seems surprisingly like a 'bad' version of Captain Jack Sparrow).

So yeah. Sorry folks. the ideas have fled. I'm a little irked at myself for not having posted much this week...but man, it's been tough on me little head with all these papers...and lack of sleep...

maybe tomorrow...just maybe...

until then...sleep well me mateys (yeah, I have got to turn this show off...)

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My wife would kill me

Luckily, I'm not crazy enough to try.

"What?" you may ask.

Some couple named their child 'Linux'. Seriously.

Read about it if you doubt me.

Honestly, I do greatly enjoy my operating system based off Linux (Ubuntu, if you must know), but name my child after it? That's a little too much.

And anyways, my wife would kill me. This I know.

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Politics and Jedis - who doesn't win here?

Okay, another great find by Wright off of YouTube. Who can't resist it when lightsabers and politics are mixed? I just had to share...

Modern day persecution?

So I open up Firefox and on my Google homepage a CNN headline catches my eye: "Christians flee Iraqi City Rather Than Convert". Instantly my interest was piqued. Clicked the link. The headline on the page it opened read, "Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats, officials say." A little discrepancy? I think so. Read the article for yourself.

The article only speaks of the persecution, not of the Christian's motivations for fleeing. There is nothing derogatory in the article about Christians. Only on that one headline/link I saw on the CNN headline thingy I have on my Google home page. So who comprises who's journalistic integrity? A simple, fact-oriented article becomes tainted with a slanderous title and paints your entire perspective of the information presented. A perspective, mind you, which is not evidenced at all in the writing of the author of the article.

Is there a Biblical prerogative for the Christians to stay? For them to flee? I think both courses of action could be supported scripturally, both fleeing to keep one's family safe, or staying at the risk of one's life to share the Gospel. It seems to me, in that situation, a Christian should seek the Lord as to what should be done. In this case, I definitely would not be the one to cast the first stone...

Today's quotable

A driver at work waiting on a part says to me after I've retrieved it for him, "As I sat here doing nothing I realized why they pay me so little."

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Republican ad - homemade!!!

Thanks to John C. Wright for bringing this video to my attention. Much fun. A little long, but he pretty much slams Democrats all the way through - and pretty darn effectively!

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