Saturday, June 22, 2002

ok, I like this one (http://overflow.blogspot.com/) from what I read. I may go to bed pretty soon, but now I'm hungry, so I'll probaly munch and read some more.
<  x  ?  ChristBlogs  #  x  > Above is the stuff I have just received in an email in response to my joining a "Christian Blogs" Net Ring. I don't have much a flavor for what sorts are on this ring, but I guess I am about to find out since they now have this weblog in their list. I'll go "Christian Blogging" I guess I'll call it, and see what kind of experience I have. Go with me if you wish, and then return here to see what I found (as I see it, of course)
ok, now it's after three, and I want to point you to my web, where I describe a lot of basic stuff about my "Influential people", some basic theological points (some of which need updating from the past five years, which I am hoping to now do through the blogging medium, seeing that XML is in use in a lot of the way weblog sites are put together, and then I may be able to begin to see the light technically that allows me to "call in" snippets of XML to my web (oh, I forgot.....it's at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dlature and there's a blog section there too (see the link at the top of that page I just pointed you to). I also linked to a forum application that I have set up at work, but I have framed a couple of instances of it and used it for our church site and for my site. It's a free ASP driven app that uses a database table on our production web server, where one of our sites also uses some tables for its forums that we are trying to get going. I am thinking about blogging/weblogging as a possible way to invite some community features to grow......around my site, the church site, and at work, if I can convince people there through some quickly obtained knowledge and samples, that something siginificant is hapening there/here.
It is 242am for cryig out loud, but I am up, defragging the hard drive on a laptop that I hop to take with me on our family trek to Eastern Middle tennesee to bask in a boring golf resort where there is very little scenery except for endless rows of craft shops and home building supplies, and time share condos, and very few books stores. I am taking the laptop so that I might further hone my barely more than remedial blogging skills. I have one blog at RadioUserland, two here, and one on my ISP's webspace, where my old and decaying web pages sit. I hope to find some way of melding all of this together into a somewhat central place or XML-linked cross reference, or something like that.