return to I Love My Journal
A Little Closer to Center...
Musings about Life, Linux, and Latter-day Saints.
Close
Customize Your Blog!
Main Background Color:
Main Title Background:
Main Title Foreground:
Sub Title Foreground:
Title 1:
Title 2:
Title 3:
Entries Background:
Entries Title:
Entries Text:
Entries Bottom Corners:
Entries Top Corners Background:
Entries Top Corners:
reset to default colors
Pages
About Me
Links


Tags
PERSONAL 336
LDS 309
SPIRITUAL 297
BOOK OF MORMON 236
SCRIPTURES 152
RELIGION 111
LINUX 79
COMPUTERS 64
LIFE 47
GENERAL CONFERENCE 44
GENTOO 39
MISCELLANEOUS 35
MUSIC 34
PROGRAMMING 32
CARS 28
MICROSOFT 23
FAMILY 20
AUDIO 20
I LOVE MY JOURNAL 18
FUN 15
CHILDREN 11
CURRENT EVENTS 10
DRM 9
VIDEO 9
NATURE'S WAY 8
BABBLINGS 6
FRIENDS 6
COMPUTER HARDWARE 5
HEROD THE FINK 5
GAMES 5
DRUMS 4
STUDIO-JOURNEY 4
AUDIO HARDWARE 3
KDENLIVE 3
GENERAL INSANITY 3
CONEXM 2
THANKS4GIVING 2
CATS 2
POETRY 1
MY JOURNAL 1
POLITICS 1
EVERYDAY THOUGHTS 1
YOUTH CONFERENCE 1
PARENTING 1
STUDIO 1
PROVO CITY CENTER TEMPLE 1
CHURCH NOTES 1


RSS Feed

RSS FeedSubscribe!
Entries
Newest
Thu - Jan 13, 2011 : 09:08 pm
content
   rated 0 times
0.67 daily views
3151 total views
General Thoughts
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
I got down here to my studio tonight, after playing with the kids, putting Sam to bed, and taking care of a few other odds 'n' ends, and I got to feeling like I should write in my journal.  Not entirely sure about what, but it's been months, if not a few years since I have just sat down to write, with nothing in mind beforehand.  Some of ...
Babblings / Personal
Tue - Jan 11, 2011 : 05:33 pm
okay
   rated 0 times
0.60 daily views
2826 total views
3 Nephi : 20
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
So, in Gospel Doctrine, from time to time, we talk about praying, and how we're supposed to pray all the time, and then we get the comments that it's impossible to "pray" all the time, and then someone else says that we need to be praying "always" in our hearts.  That's true, and verse 1 of this chapter is Jesus' commandmen...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 06, 2011 : 12:11 pm
excited
   rated 0 times
0.56 daily views
2620 total views
AnythingSlider is Awesome
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
So, when I started the re-design of my studio website, I knew I would need sliders, but I didn't realize how many unconfigurable, and generally static sliders were out there.  I must have gone through 5 iterations of sliders before I found one that matches my needs (and probably will be the go-to slider for any project I work on in the future)...
Programming
Mon - Dec 13, 2010 : 02:08 pm
excited
   rated 0 times
0.42 daily views
1976 total views
We're on the radio!
PoeticIntensity
2 comments
Okay.. Not really the "radio", but a cool little Internet radio station picked up Herod the Fink (a band I'm in), and decided to feature us.  They decided to play our song, "Desperate Husband's Chorus", and I think it's way cool. The radio station is called "LDS Music Today" and can be found at http://www.ldsmu...
Herod The Fink / Personal
Mon - Dec 06, 2010 : 12:22 pm
grateful
   rated 0 times
0.47 daily views
2220 total views
Thoughts on HtF
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
So, the Christmas season is officially here, and I'm feeling more Christmas Spirt than I ever have in my life - by a long shot. I attribute this to two things...  First and foremost, attitude, and making good choices.  To me, Christmas is a spiritual season because it's filled with love, good will, charity, friends, and family.  If...
Herod The Fink
Tue - Nov 30, 2010 : 04:55 pm
grateful
   rated 0 times
0.53 daily views
2538 total views
3 Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
It might be that I'm a techno-geek, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was "social media".  People went from house to house and "labored exceedingly" all through the night to let it be known where Jesus was going to come the following day. Also interesting are the activities of the people when the arrived t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Nov 22, 2010 : 05:21 pm
happy
   rated 0 times
0.50 daily views
2372 total views
3 Nephi : 18
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
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
Thu - Nov 18, 2010 : 05:12 am
grateful
   rated 0 times
0.50 daily views
2382 total views
3 Nephi : 17
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
Wow...  3rd Nephi 17.  This has been one of my top 5 all-time favorite scriptural chapters since I first read it when I was 14.  I love it. The first 6 verses, to me, envelop the love Christ has for us, and the appreciation He must feel when we show our grattitude toward Him.  There were no words uttered by his audience, yet H...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Nov 16, 2010 : 06:13 pm
grateful
   rated 0 times
0.45 daily views
2135 total views
3 Nephi : 16
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
Wow, it's been a long time since I last studied my scriptures. The first thing which caught my attention is the phrase, "if it so be that my people at Jerusalem, they who have seen me and been with me in my ministry, do not ask the Father in my name, that they may receive a knowledge of you by the Holy Ghost".   I guess that...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Sat - Nov 13, 2010 : 12:02 am
amazed
   rated 0 times
0.47 daily views
2259 total views
Herod the Fink's Premiere Show!
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
Man... I'm so tired right now, but I've just gotta write about this. Tonight was the first show Jesse and I put on in the little "House Concert" tour we're going on. It was very low-key, but when the time came to play, the people just kept pouring in.  At the end of the show was the only time I had the sense to count how many peo...
Herod The Fink / Music
Highest Rated
Fri - May 13, 2016 : 01:30 am
grateful
   rated 1 time
0.64 daily views
1759 total views
13-hour Studio Session
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
 Yup..  Today was awesome.  I had a 13.5 hour session, and it was just amazing.  The song creation process was a bit difficult at times, but little-by-little the song formed, and both me and my client (Jed Lefevre) were kind of dumbfounded at the end result.  In the first hour, we had a piano track, and that was it. At th...
Personal / Studio-journey
Thu - Jun 17, 2010 : 12:17 pm
content
   rated 0 times
0.47 daily views
2334 total views
3 Nephi : 1
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
So, we're starting 3rd Nephi.  This should prove to be interesting. The first thing I noticed was, again, how quickly (and stupidly) people make up excuses for that which is obviously true. I imagine that living during the time all these miracle were happening (and increasing), would be such a gift.  The signs and miracles profesied b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Sep 24, 2007 : 10:44 am
content
   rated 0 times
0.34 daily views
2028 total views
Hail OpenOffice.org!
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
To begin, quite honestly, let me say this: Without OpenOffice.org, using Linux in a professional environment (which I have been doing now for 4 straight years across 4 different companies) would have been, and would currently be, much more difficult at the very least. Those who have desk jobs, and more specifically programming jobs, know how...
Computers / Linux
Sat - Jul 12, 2008 : 01:30 pm
content
   rated 0 times
0.91 daily views
5092 total views
OpenFire gentoo problems
PoeticIntensity
2 comments
I just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why my OpenFire 3.5.2 instance was installing just fine, saying that it was running just fine, but in reality was not running at all. Neither port 9090, nor 9091 was open, both ports 9090, and 9091 were closed. ps -A | grep openfire returned nothing - at all. Yet, /etc/init.d/openfire sta...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Tue - Feb 05, 2008 : 09:45 pm
sad
   rated 0 times
0.38 daily views
2178 total views
1st Nephi : 22
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
I'm kind of distracted now due to external crud, but one of the verses jumped out at me.  Verses 7 and 8... I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the Spanish conquest, as it came to the Americas.  I have combating feelings toward the whole history of what happened. The "Indians" found here in America were the posterity...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Dec 15, 2009 : 10:25 pm
tired
   rated 0 times
0.51 daily views
2591 total views
Fedora 12 - Getting Closer
PoeticIntensity
2 comments
 Well...  I'm not quite as frustrated tonight as I was when I tried to do with Ubuntu, that which I am now trying with Fedora 12. I installed Fedora 12 on my laptop from the install DVD, and I've gotta say, Fedora, neither in the installation, nor in running the OS, was as slick as Ubuntu.  Ubuntu was quite a bit more polished, I'...
Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Jun 12, 2009 : 02:20 pm
caffeinated
   rated 0 times
0.46 daily views
2454 total views
Vista Dualboot Gotcha
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
I recently bought a Toshiba Laptop (a Satellite A305-S6916), and with it, came Vista Home Premium. I, of course, immediately wiped the hard drive clean, took a shower for having touched a computer with Vista pre-installed on it, then proceeded to partition it, and install gentoo Linux on it. The compatibility with Linux of the peripherals on th...
Computers / Linux / Microsoft
Tue - Jan 22, 2008 : 12:40 pm
content
   rated 0 times
0.50 daily views
2878 total views
Microsoft Cares ... Really.
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
No, seriously, people...  Microsoft really does care....  loads and loads of caring! They care so much ABOUT MONEY it makes me sick. I just got done reading this article and I'm left with a feeling of sickening "awe" at how greedy Microsoft really is. Lately, I've been following a story about a group of people in a project...
Computers / Linux / Microsoft
Thu - Apr 06, 2006 : 08:18 pm
no mood
   rated 0 times
0.35 daily views
2249 total views
Sweet Little DVD Encoding Command...
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
I love mythtv. Thank heavens for the wonderful, altruistic people who created such a fantastic program. I also love transcode and mplayer. Equally fantastic programs. Put em' all together and what do you get? An encoded library of your DVDs ready for viewing straight from your hard drive. Here's some tips I've found out. (actually, I'm w...
Wed - Sep 23, 2009 : 01:15 pm
blah
   rated 0 times
0.41 daily views
2144 total views
Alma : 40
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
I just realized that it's been a month since I last wrote about the Book of Mormon.  Man, if I'm gonna finish this thing, I'm gonna have to pick up the pace! First thing I noticed with this chapter is that when Alma got the revelation concerning the spirit world, it seems that he was just asking a curious question, "What happens to the ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Most Viewed
Tue - Dec 09, 2008 : 11:08 am
tired
   rated 0 times
0.74 daily views
4045 total views
VLC Gripe
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
Awhile back, I found that many DVD titles released by Sony weren't able to be viewed with mplayer.  This annoyed me. So, I investigated a bit and found that VLC (another wonderful media player) could not only play them back, but also rip them with ease.  Up until a bit ago, this has been the case since the writing of that article. Whe...
Computers / Linux
Tue - Jan 19, 2010 : 06:11 pm
okay
   rated 0 times
0.74 daily views
3772 total views
Gentoo XFCE4 / XDM / TWM Problems
PoeticIntensity
1 comment
Okay... So with the latest update to xorg-server (I think it was 6.5), xdm stopped loading XFCE4 and I couldn't get it to load anything but TWM. Here was the problem: Somehow, an important file got removed.  The file is this one: /etc/env.d/90xsession The contents of the file is simply: XSESSION="Xfce4" With that...
Gentoo / Linux
Sun - Apr 01, 2018 : 10:51 am
grateful
   rated 1 time
0.74 daily views
1546 total views
Solemn Assembly and Hell Week
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
 Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the first solemn assembly I remember having attended.  As I raised my hand in my bedroom while sustaining President Nelson, tears welled up in my eyes.  I felt as if I was partaking in something very important.  I was with Luci and Leah.  Everyone else in my family was out doing o...
Personal / Spiritual / Studio-journey
Sat - Mar 29, 2008 : 01:57 am
excited
   rated 0 times
0.74 daily views
4244 total views
Racing 3 Dream Cars
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
As many of you know, I recently upgraded the exhaust on my 2007 Mustang GT. Well... Tonight, I had to take it out to see what I could do.  So, I went the usual route and didn't find much more than a crappy 90's Eclipse that wanted to play.  After almost an hour of dragging back and forth, lady luck just didn't have it in for me tonight...
Cars
Mon - Mar 23, 2009 : 10:00 am
blah
   rated 0 times
0.74 daily views
3996 total views
Alma : 17
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
The beginning of this chapter is one of my favorites.  I love verse 2 and 3. True friendship, at least in my case, is always born of spiritual origin.  The friends I've had that have lasted have always had a solid spiritual foundation.  And yes... Finding that old friends have kept the faith and increased in the knowledge of the Lo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Sat - Aug 09, 2008 : 11:30 pm
exhausted
   rated 1 time
0.74 daily views
4120 total views
Youth Conference 2008
PoeticIntensity
3 comments
I don't even know where to begin, to tell you the truth.  I'll do my best, but I've got a novel inside me for what happened yesterday.  All in all, it was quite simple, but at the same time it was probably the most profound thing which has happened to me in years...  and I have no idea how to portray it. Let me begin with the foll...
Computers / Personal / Spiritual / Youth Conference
Mon - Jan 04, 2016 : 07:41 pm
grateful
   rated 0 times
0.73 daily views
2121 total views
2015 Conf #2 - "God Is At The Helm"
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
 "Hold on with Both Hands" - I love this quote.  It suggests that holding on with one hand isn't enough... and honestly, in my life, it hasn't been enough.  When I live the Gospel half-heartedly, I feel a contrast to the times when I know I am giving it my all.  The closer we draw to God, the closer God draws to us (...
General Conference / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Apr 24, 2007 : 07:18 pm
no mood
   rated 0 times
0.73 daily views
4412 total views
The scientific method can't prove everything.
PoeticIntensity
0 comments
Okay, okay... I do understand that there is a ton of good that has been brought about by the scientific method, but seriously, people; is that the *only* way to prove something is true? Wow. In my opinion, we've really limited ourselves if we think that's the only way to "prove" the truth of something. I just (finally) finished D&C 76, an...
Sun - Jul 27, 2008 : 06:18 pm
grateful
   rated 2 times
0.73 daily views
4093 total views
My Wedding Day...
PoeticIntensity
9 comments
I got married like a bit more than 5 years ago, and I'm lovin' it. But, during those five years, I've had some footage gracefully shot and donated to me by my friend Ty Swartzlander on my wedding day.  On that day, Ty told me he was going to put something together and give it to me later, but instead, I told him I'd really, really, real...
Kdenlive / Personal / Video
Fri - Nov 09, 2007 : 12:07 pm
amazed
   rated 0 times
0.72 daily views
4257 total views
Is Linux Really More Secure?
PoeticIntensity
2 comments
I've been using Linux now for long enough to have heard just about all the facts, opinions, babblings, and flame-wars about Linux security vs. Microsoft security. *sigh* It seems that every time I try to explain to people the added security inherent to Linux, they have all sorts of explanations why my explanations are bogus.  Some of my ...
Gentoo / Linux / Microsoft