Mon - Mar 01, 2010 : 04:52 pm
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AES and PHP
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After receiving a warning in my PHP implementation of AES encryption (which is called Rijndael), I did a quick google, and found one match - and it happened to be in planet larry, so... I clicked on the link to go to the blog which contained the fix, and found it wasn't there anymore... So.. I thought I'd just copy the answer and ...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Thu - Feb 18, 2010 : 03:59 pm
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Alma : 60
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... I can't help but contrast a note like this one being sent between friends today. Holy cow.
If I were to send a message like this to any one of my friends (Pahoran was a good man, and a friend to captain Moroni), I'm fairly sure I would at very least offend them to the point of damaging the friendship, and at most, cause them t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Sun - Feb 14, 2010 : 11:28 pm
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Happy Valentine's Day
PoeticIntensity
I spent today away from my sweetheart, so I thought I'd see what kind of a "1 day love song" I could write to her. So, I took approximately 5 hours and wrote her a love song.... or something... It's my first attempt at recording myself playing guitar, and the lyrics consist of 8 whole words. So... Here ya go. ...
Life / Personal
Sun - Feb 14, 2010 : 07:30 am
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Life, Music and Possibilities
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It's been a while since I just sat down to write about whatever comes out of my fingers. I now have about an hour of free time, so I think I'm gonna do just that.
It's been kind of interesting that in various points in my life, I've wanted to get rid of the thoughts of doing something musical professionally, but it always seems to come back...
Life / Music / Personal
Thu - Feb 11, 2010 : 04:16 pm
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Lucky Day...
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So... This week has been just one blessing after the other. I mean, seriously, it's been an amazing week! I've been recording this great band in my studio, I've been rockin' the code at my day-job, and things are just great.
So, to celebrate my happiness, and general good mood, I decided to take myself out to lunch. I wen...
Cars / Life
Tue - Feb 09, 2010 : 05:00 pm
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Alma : 59
PoeticIntensity
Okay... First question about this chapter which really intrigues me is this: Why would Moroni immediately assume wickedness on the part of the Nephites as soon as Nephihah was taken over?
I don't ask this question rhetorically, or sarcastically because if I were him, I guess I could think of a thousand other reasons why a city would g...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Mon - Feb 08, 2010 : 01:57 pm
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Alma : 58
PoeticIntensity
Hehe.... According to this verse, I guess even Lamanites can learn!
"Stand fast in the liberty wherewith God has made us free!"
Yeah... I think I'm gonna have that made into a poster, and hang it on my wall or something.
The big message of this chapter, and the few preceeding it, for me, would have to be "Rely on The Lord for y...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Feb 02, 2010 : 01:09 pm
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Alma : 57
PoeticIntensity
Yet another great strategy-based chapter. I'm kind of tired right now, and this chapter wasn't really loaded with doctrinal insights, but I will say that if there's any question about whether or not obedience has its rewards, you'll have to read verses 21-27. Definitely makes me want to both learn about and obey my Heavenly Father...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Fri - Jan 29, 2010 : 03:18 pm
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Alma : 56 - Courage, Faith
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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
Thu - Jan 28, 2010 : 11:38 am
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Alma : 56 - Covenants
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With all that I've noticed about making covenants this time around, I can't help but notice that this chapter has some very interesting words.
I really do wonder where the line is with covenants we make. In the days of the Book of Mormon, people would rather die than lie or break a covenant. This is made abundantly clear with the eali...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 03, 2010 : 10:29 pm
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Happy New Years!
PoeticIntensity
Wow... When I wrote this in March of 2009,
"During this year, I both think and feel (logically and spiritually) I will be stretched more than I've been stretched in years. This one's gonna be a toughy. As for now, I feel anxiously optimistic. Yup.. That about hits it on the head."
I had n...
Life / Personal
Thu - Jul 03, 2008 : 03:28 pm
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Energy Drinks...
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About a year ago, I wrote about some feelings I have toward caffeine. Since then, my feelings haven't changed much.
I try to limit the amount of caffeine consumption in which I partake. You know, the whole "moderation in all things" crud...
Well... Through this year, I've tried quite a few different caffeinated bev...
Miscellaneous
Tue - Sep 08, 2009 : 10:12 am
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Hard Drive Crisis
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Okay... So three days ago (that would be Saturday morning), I found that my server was having weird problems. I was getting an I/O error when I tried to start a movie for my daughter. Yeah, that can't be good. I'd seen that problem before when LVM got out of sync somehow (after about 6 months of uptime), and decided to reboo...
Computer Hardware / Computers / Linux
Mon - Apr 13, 2009 : 11:39 pm
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Gphoto2 / Gnome Problem
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Ya know... Sometimes I hate open source. Most times I love it, but sometimes I hate it.
I recently updated my gentoo gnome installation to 2.24.2, and didn't think much of it. I then tried to connect my Nikon S210 digital camera to my usb port and perform the simple task of importing photos. I have done this probably 100 t...
Computers / Linux
Wed - Aug 01, 2007 : 09:13 pm
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Financial Decisions...
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I keep on runing into these people who have learned what I want to learn.
About a year ago, I met a guy named Rick Koerber and he seemed like a normal guy. About 6 months later, I find out he's a freaking multi-millionarie. I also find out that he teaches how he did it, and so I learn about it. It seems really legit...
Tue - Jun 09, 2009 : 03:50 pm
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Source of Evil...
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Me and my good friend Scott chatted for far too long today about a very interesting subject. The subject was brought about by this article, which, in essence is just a conversation between an aethiestic professor and two of his students.
In a nutshell, the professor makes the claim of God creating Satan, and thus creating evil, and thereby ...
Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 22, 2008 : 10:06 pm
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1st Nephi : 14
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When I sit and think about what I just read, the 14th chapter of 1st Nephi is pretty crazy.
Just a few points...
The majority of the chapter is all about the "mother of abominations" and the "whore of all the earth".
I believe it's written here to clarify the impact this (these) church(es) has (have) had upon the plain and...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jul 16, 2008 : 03:29 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Will Not Yield - Zwick
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Ya know... I really liked this talk. There were points in it where I found his words coming through my mind's eye of the past.
While growing up, I was probably on the extreme of what Elder Zwick was trying to convey. Instead of being tempted to go along with the crowd, I thought the crowd was stupid, and I didn't need them. ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Feb 18, 2008 : 10:47 am
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2nd Nephi : 6
PoeticIntensity
I think this is the first time I'm not really inspired at all to write anything.
This is frustrating because I can tell there's a lot of meat to this chapter. I guess it's partially because I really am not into the whole "gathering of Israel" thing. That's horrible to say because it's such an integral part of the whole plan ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Nov 22, 2010 : 05:21 pm
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3 Nephi : 18
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Sometimes I read the scriptures because doing so fills me with the Spirit. Today was one of those times. I need the spirit tonight.
This chapter is loaded with details on the Sacrament and serving the Sacrament in congregations.
Favorite verse was 32, "Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Jan 23, 2009 : 03:45 pm
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Alma : 13
PoeticIntensity
Okay. I've used various verses from this chapter to prove that we had agency in the pre-earth life, but now I'm questioning myself. Here's the basis:
Verse 3 says this:
And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being acalled and bprepared from the cfoundation of the world according to the dforeknowledge of God, on ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Apr 13, 2009 : 11:22 am
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Alma : 22
PoeticIntensity
Well.. I got to verse 3, when a concept which, for some reason, has been pounded into my spirit throughout pretty much my whole life, came ringing true and clear. What is that concept, you ask? Don't assume to know anything about the effect you may have on others. Sometimes you can tell, but sometimes you can't.
Because of the honesty...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Tue - Feb 19, 2008 : 11:27 pm
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Renaldo Lapuz - Remixes!
PoeticIntensity
I was gonna read something spiritual tonight, but I got sidetracked by American Idol.
I started surfing around and before long, I came upon this video which, to me, is both absolutely amazing and freaking hilarious at the same time.
I had no idea (although I'm not surprised) that so many people were doing remixes of his song "We Are Brot...
Audio / Miscellaneous / Music
Sun - Jan 04, 2009 : 11:58 pm
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2009 Boring Randomness
PoeticIntensity
I'm not entirely sure what to write, but I know I've got to write something. I figure I'll just put fingers to keyboard and see what thoughts spew forth.
Lately, I've been feeling a bit of a slump spiritually. It's not uncommon for me to go in cycles of spirituality, but this time, it's a bit different. I haven't felt the desire...
Life / Personal
Thu - Apr 02, 2009 : 02:05 pm
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Projects Are Officially Dead
PoeticIntensity
I've been debating on whether or not to write about this, and if I write about it, whether or not to make it public.
Well... As you can see, I decided to make it public. and to write about it.
I came to work two days ago with the intent on working on the last of the original PHP projects still having a chance on making it through the me...
Life / Nature's Way / Personal
Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 09:51 pm
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Why is Pixar so Awesome?
PoeticIntensity
I just finished watching the Pixar movie, "Cars" for the 45th time. Or maybe it was the 4500th time. I don't know... I lost count.
Anyway... During the movie, despite my having seen the movie more times than I've kissed my kids, and even though those kids were crawling all over me and generally trying their best to be a nui...
Current Events / Miscellaneous
Wed - Nov 12, 2008 : 03:45 pm
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Simplicity - Perry
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I'm not in the mood to write much, but I figure that since work is kind of slow today, that it would do me good to watch and write about a conference talk right about now.
Elder Perry's talk seemed to talk about a topic which would benefit a lot of people today - simplicity.
As far as I go, I can think right now of one specific thing which I co...
General Conference / Lds / Religion
Sun - Apr 15, 2007 : 12:07 pm
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Do Mormons Worship Christ?
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To start things off, I’ve been doing a bit of research on Christianity due to a friend I have at my place of employment. In my research I came upon the wonderful debate on whether or not members of the LDS church are “Christians”. The arguments pointed out were surprisingly well-worded and easy to understand. One of the main on...
Lds
Sun - Jun 08, 2008 : 06:33 pm
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2008 - Roth Memorial - Friday
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I just got done making the video for this entry, so take a look if you've got a high speed Internet connection.
Today was the 2nd day of the Ed Roth Memorial Reunion held in Manti, UT.
There were finksters-a-plenty there on Friday, but even more on Saturday. I lost count of how many Rat Finks I saw.
So, because the days were packed, ...
Audio / Cars / Music / Personal
Sun - Jul 12, 2009 : 03:16 pm
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Love Through Trials
PoeticIntensity
My marriage, or rather, the marriage I have entered into with my sweetheart for the last 7 years, hasn't really been that bad. In fact, I'd say we're definitely on the upper-hand of "marital happiness" as far as the national statistics go.
There are quite a few reasons for this, I'd say. One is definitely that I feel I'm giv...
Family / Life / Personal