Tue - Oct 30, 2007 : 04:56 pm
irritated
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No Extensions In Firefox?
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I'm getting like crazy frustrated here...
You know all those wonderful firefox extensions which allow web developers like me to work even faster and more efficiently? Well... They must all hate me.
I've heard incredible things about Firebug and Y-Slow as far as web development tools go, but can I use them?
Apparently no...
Gentoo / Programming
Mon - Oct 29, 2007 : 10:55 pm
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2007 Halloween Pumpkins!
PoeticIntensity
Well... Our pumpkins this year were just so darned cute, I had to blog about em' - I mean, after all, this is my journal!
So, without further ado, here are a few photos of the 2007 Jones Family Halloween Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza!
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Personal
Mon - Oct 29, 2007 : 02:46 pm
blah
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Life is Too Short to Hate Your Job
PoeticIntensity
My mom called me up a couple of days ago to give me some not-so-great news.
My dad got fired from his job. Now, those of you who know my dad know that he isn't "fire-able" material. While he was employed at his full-time job at the prime of his life, he happened to "keep a job" for more than 15 years, so... ...
Miscellaneous
Thu - Oct 25, 2007 : 01:40 pm
content
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Optical Illusion
orson
Last night before going to bed, I (well my wife) discovered an interesting phenomenon. Some type of optical trick/illusion, I don't know what is actually causing it.
I was playing with a laser pointer with the lights out. It was completly dark and my wife asked me if I could see the blue streak seemingly coming out of the red dot. At first I didn...
Thu - Oct 25, 2007 : 11:13 am
angry
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Microsoft Makes Me Sick
PoeticIntensity
I don't even know where to begin on this one. Maybe I'll start by screaming in frustration due to Microsoft's complete incompetence..... or is it incompetence? Maybe, and more likely, it's completely calculated, thought-through, planned, and executed....
Apparently, Microsoft sent out an "automatic update" to all XP a...
Gentoo / Linux / Microsoft
Wed - Oct 24, 2007 : 04:58 pm
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Temptation and Personal Battles
PoeticIntensity
Something which I've never even tried to verabalize, let alone write down is the subject for today's blog.
I've always thought there must be something wrong with me, since I've always been almost at the point of being tormented spiritually. That may seem a bit harsh, and surprising to those who know me, but it's true. Never actually ...
Spiritual
Tue - Oct 23, 2007 : 05:15 pm
content
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XFCE - Bouncing-back Window Focus
PoeticIntensity
Since I recently have switched to XFCE on my work computer (all home computers are still running Gnome), I've noticed a strange behavior with window focusing. I'm trying to decide whether this is a feature, or a bug.
What happens, happens once-in-a-while and I can't get it to do the same thing consistently. Whether it's because this i...
Linux
Tue - Oct 23, 2007 : 01:39 pm
irritated
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Where Did My Internet Go?
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I like my RSS feeds because they keep me up-to-date with the stuff I'm interested in.
So, I click on this feed which leads me to article about a mom getting mad at Balmer for some reason or another. Instead of going to the site itself, I'm brought to this full-page ad for something I'm not even remotely interested in.
So,...
Computers / Current Events
Sun - Oct 21, 2007 : 02:05 am
content
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Mustang's Fog-lights?
PoeticIntensity
I simply must blog about this - quickly.
When I arrived home from a trip through some pretty insane snow tonight, I simply had to test a theory I had about my 2007 Mustang GT's headlights vs. fog-lights. (Apart from the chance to drive like a maniac in the snow, which I absolutely love)
So, I get my car going about 25 down a very lowly-li...
Cars / Miscellaneous
Sun - Oct 21, 2007 : 01:38 am
bewildered
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Snow and Headlights
PoeticIntensity
Okay... We just got back from a little trip up to Ryan's house so he could sign us up for a loan that'll make it so we can make quite a bit of money saving up for life insurance (too much info for one paragraph to sustain, so.. we'll leave it at that)
Anyway, on our way home, it began to snow, and snow quite a bit harder than I've ever see...
Cars / Miscellaneous
Thu - Jun 05, 2008 : 01:32 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - Cov. of Priesthood - Eyring
PoeticIntensity
It is quite refreshing to note the surety with which President Eyring states the following:
"First, the very fact that you have been offered the oath and covenant is evidence that God has chosen you, knowing your power and capacity. He has known you since you were with Him in the spirit world. With His foreknowledge of your strength, He has ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Apr 21, 2008 : 07:37 pm
exhausted
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Ridiculous
koyote Dreams
Here is another one of my poems, seems like all I do is write :-) This is one is not like my others, because this one is kinda happy. I think...... I wrote it back in December about how I felt about this guy, I was hiding from how I felt about him. So this is what I wrote.
I can't let myself feel like this!
It's so ridiculous,
I find I'm always ...
Fri - May 02, 2008 : 11:27 am
spiritual
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Gen. Conf. - Living Church - Eyring
PoeticIntensity
"God's people have not always been worthy of the marvelous experience we have shared today. The Apostles, after the Ascension of Christ, continued to exercise the keys He left with them. But because of disobedience and loss of faith by the members, the Apostles died without the keys being passed on to successors. We call that tragic episode &q...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Apr 10, 2010 : 12:09 pm
energetic
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Camp and Stuff
MJS
Sorry I couldn't write yesterday, I got a little preoccupied. My sister is going to camp with my mother (she wrote about it in HER journal) WITHOUT ME. They left at about 1:00pm and got there at 3:00pm.They're coming back on Sunday and will be home by about 8:00pm. I was mad, but then I remembered I get to go with the whole Young Women gr...
Babblings / Camp / Fun
Mon - Aug 25, 2008 : 06:05 pm
blah
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RICKS
koyote Dreams
SO I've always wannted to go to Rcks ( BYU IDAHO) well two more years and I'm so there. I got my PA to help me find info about it, today I had a pack from the collage come in the mail. I was so exited!
The best part it, Sara is also planning on going that same time I am! That would be the best thing to ever happen to me. I mean Sara is my ...
Wed - Jan 27, 2010 : 12:09 am
excited
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First Impressions : MXL V77
AudioGuru
Since the studio's new shining star arrived, we've been having a lot of fun around here. To be honest, the guy who was good enough to sell us our new MXL V77, couldn't say enough about this microphone, which unfortunately is no longer in production, so when it arrived, I had my hopes up quite high - possibly too high.
So, after two successf...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Fri - Jan 29, 2010 : 03:18 pm
happy
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Alma : 56 - Courage, Faith
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... The explanations of the strategy of war really is interesting to me. But when I come across verses like these, I simply can't help but get chills.
I actually tear up when reading these verses. I guess it's kind of the whole underdog syndrome. Ya know... When there's a conflict, or a competition, and the odds are...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jan 19, 2009 : 10:34 am
tired
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Alma : 11
PoeticIntensity
I've gotta ask. Well, before I do, let me preface the question with the scripture found in 1st Nephi 19. Nephi says he won't write anything unless he thinks it's sacred. Assuming that the prophets after Mosiah thought the same thing, I've gotta ask. Why are verses 1 through 19 even here? I know the Book of Mormon is tr...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Feb 06, 2008 : 09:51 pm
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2nd Nephi : 1
PoeticIntensity
Sitting here pondering what to write.
I could write about a synopsis of 1st Nephi, which I finished last night, or I could just dive into 2nd Nephi. I think I'll do the latter.
Verse 6 could be quite the controversial verse, for people who didn't like the Spanish conquest, or Christopher Colombus. Yet, the verse still is what the ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 29, 2010 : 05:11 pm
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Random Thoughts
lifesux111
Hey Guys,
Okay so its been a really really long time since I last wrote anything. I just recently remembered my password and that is a really big part of my reason for not writing. I know this is suppose to be like a diary (right or wrong?), but I would perfer to think that its more of a letter to a best friend (hope that don't sound ...
Tue - Jul 16, 2002 : 10:45 pm
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My Testimony
PoeticIntensity
I wish I could describe to you how much gratefulness is in my heart for whoever is in the skies who loves me. The prophets say He is Jesus Christ - and I believe them. This being up there loves me more than I can possibly comprehend. There is no way that words can describe to you, whoever you are, how much I want to learn to love Him.
One thi...
Tue - Sep 04, 2007 : 10:41 am
excited
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Why I Love Monterey
PoeticIntensity
Okay.... Yes.. Collin knows he's cool. Actually, he's just happy to be on his way to Monterey to enjoy the various wonderful goings-on there.
Anyway... I thought I'd list the reasons I love Monterey while I'm waiting for everyone to get ready for the day. So... Here goes:
By far the best reason to come to Monterey Califo...
Personal
Fri - Aug 31, 2007 : 09:27 am
content
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New Haircut
PoeticIntensity
I just thought I'd let ya'll know that I got a new haircut a couple of days ago. I think its swell.
I guess this just goes to show that I'm not entirely sane... pretty much... ever.
The mohawk has quite a story which I might as well divulge right about now.
It all happened about 7 years ago, when my brothers all got together for some event...
Personal
Mon - Apr 24, 2006 : 09:38 am
no mood
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Workplace Politics......gah!
PoeticIntensity
Man alive.... I don't deal well with politics in the workplace AT ALL.
Why in the world aren't we using gentoo? Who knows. Probably because of the "support" that we don't get because we have PHP 5 installed on a SLES9 server. augh.....
Can I just tell you how much I hate it when people make snide remarks about something the know absolutely not...
Wed - Feb 06, 2008 : 03:16 pm
excited
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LDS Online Scriptures
orson
(how-to)
Recently I was reading from scriptures.lds.org and decided it could be improved to make it easier to read. Here is what it looks like normally.
A couple things bugged me. Narrow text is generally easier to read. So, I made it more narrow. Also, the superscript letters that signify a footnote throw off the line spacing. I figured out a cool l...
Wed - Aug 29, 2007 : 08:56 pm
tired
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A New Frontier with PL/SQL
PoeticIntensity
Man...
At work, I've got .... well.. I was gonna say dilemma, but... it's not a dilemma because I know of a way out.
My dilemma is, I've gotta have a website functional by Friday, which means I've got two days to get it to work.
The database we're connecting to (postgres on gentoo, thank heavens) has a table with more than 12 million rows in it....
Programming
Sun - Sep 02, 2007 : 04:16 pm
pensive
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2007 Monterey Trip - Day 2
PoeticIntensity
Day Two....
I woke up this morning to a wonderful sore-throat. Nothing too bad, and I felt that it's one of those that will go away as the hours pass by. Turns up I was right.
I rolled around in bed (after getting probably like.... 2-3 hours of sleep on Friday night) this morning for a good 2 hours, trying to go back to sleep.
When I...
Personal
Mon - Jan 30, 2006 : 08:40 pm
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Well it was one of those great stories...
PoeticIntensity
Name that tune... :)
Man... I'm having a hard time thinking of what to write about. (as you can tell from my last post)
Hmm..... Ya know... something I think I'm missing in my blog is the fact that I'm going to be a father (again) any day now. Sarah is due on February 10th and it's getting to the point where Collin Ryan Jones could join our...
Sat - Oct 20, 2007 : 04:38 pm
excited
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PayPal/Verisign Security Key
orson
I got one of those PayPal security keys a little while ago.
I got one after hearing about it from the security now podcast. Now I use it for PayPal and Verisign's OpenID.
Since it is based off of cryptographic algorithms. I decided to start using it for random numbers whenever I needed one. I do this all the time. Flip a coin? I don't carry c...
Sun - Feb 19, 2006 : 09:20 pm
no mood
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Today at Church...
PoeticIntensity
An interesting thought came to my head that turned into a quote of sorts. I'm sure others have said likewise, but I think this would be a great thing to have hanging in the house to constantly remind us.
May thoughts and choices of today bring God to guide and light my way.
Life with a healthy baby and a healthy wife sure is good. Welcome to ou...