Wed - Apr 02, 2008 : 02:33 pm
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Linux Software RAID On Trial
PoeticIntensity
Here at work, the time is fast coming where I will be required to put live, the server I've been working on for the past year.
And we all know that when the rubber meets the road, things get a little bit more serious.
I came to the conclusion that since I'm the only Linux person in this company, should the Linux servers ever decide to go *kap...
Computer Hardware / Computers / Linux / Programming
Wed - Apr 02, 2008 : 11:58 am
content
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Voicemail From Luci
PoeticIntensity
I was sifting through some old voicemails today, when I found this treasure. I almost deleted it when it was originally left, but I'm glad I didn't.
This will be fun to show Luci when she's older.
The voicemail itself is attached as audio in this entry....
Personal
Tue - Apr 01, 2008 : 11:39 pm
happy
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Jacob : 4
PoeticIntensity
This chapter is full of doctrinal nuggets.
Some things I noticed this time around which I haven't noticed before are the following:
Verses 6-8 are primarily about the importance of revelation. We are told this importance is denounced by our time's people in 2nd Nephi 28:5-6. I had never made that connection before.
Interes...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 12:31 pm
spiritual
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Jacob 3
PoeticIntensity
I've often wondered why this chapter isn't included in chapter 2. They both seem to go on about the evils of Jacob's audience. This chapter even goes further to say that the Lamanites at this time were more righteous than the Nephites because they have only one wife, and the husbands love their wives and children. They also are wi...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 12:09 pm
spiritual
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Jacob 2
PoeticIntensity
I honestly hope I'm never in the position to deliver a speech as the one Jacob records in this chapter. Holy moly.
He condemns pride, people seeking after riches, and chastity breakers to a degree not many other speeches can.
I wonder if the words he wrote were the same words he used in the speech, because a lot of the metaphors he uses a...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 11:59 am
irritated
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Moment of Truth??
PoeticIntensity
Last night, I watched a recording of American Idol, and since I have the myth system set to record 10 minutes previous to the beginning of the show, I had recorded the last 10 minutes of a show called "Moment Of Truth".
The whole premise of this show is to take a polygraph (lie-detector) test previous to the show, and then go on live TV...
Current Events
Sat - Mar 29, 2008 : 01:57 am
excited
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Racing 3 Dream Cars
PoeticIntensity
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
Thu - Mar 27, 2008 : 03:29 pm
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07 Mustang GT Upgrade Round 1
PoeticIntensity
Well... I finally did it. I've been kind of anxious about the whole "modifying my car" because I've never done it before, and my car is still under warranty. I have no idea what this might mean for the warranty, but after hearing / feeling the difference, I don't regret it one bit. I love it!
Just two modifications fo...
Cars
Wed - Mar 26, 2008 : 11:44 pm
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Jacob : 1
PoeticIntensity
Nothing really jumped out and grabbed me for this chapter.
I liked how Nephi was seemingly fiercely loved by his people. I wish we had a president today like that. Seems like politics in general now has nothing to do with what is best for the country. It's all about backstabbing, getting rich, and furthering agendas. I wo...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Mar 25, 2008 : 10:03 pm
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2nd Nephi : 33
PoeticIntensity
Verse which popped out at me this time around was verse 1.
This is probably the best illustration in all of scripture of how the Spirit works among people.
When someone speaks according to the Spirit of God, the Spirit breaks all barriers of communication and carries the message through a language agnostic medium which all hearts understand.
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 24, 2010 : 11:24 am
excited
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Blue Aces Demo (almost)
AudioGuru
This entire week, so far, has been spent mixing, mastering, and nit-picking The Blue Aces' 4-song demo debut. I'm not at liberty to give many details (yet), but let me just say that this group has some of the most rocking tunes I've ever heard come out of a group like this.
More to come later! The demo should be finished by this weeke...
Audio / Music
Sat - Jul 14, 2012 : 12:04 am
bittersweet
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Out with the Old...
AudioGuru
Wow... I can't believe it's here.
For those who don't know, Advanced Budget Studios resides as a single bedroom rigged up as a recording studio in my basement.
Thanks to all of you, I'd like to announce, both sadly, and beyond excitedly, that I have outgrown this little single-room studio. The acoustics, the size, and the location...
Babblings / Studio
Wed - Jul 06, 2011 : 05:59 pm
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PDFTK - Generate Issues
PoeticIntensity
So, I've been working on this PDF project for awhile, and I think it might be beneficial for me to add some notes which were somewhat elusive on the net.
The FDF file which is generated by PDFTK generate is encoded in UTF-16 character set - and is very hard to work with. I found this script which solves the problem, and allows the FD...
Linux / Programming
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 03:57 pm
impressed
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KNRS 570 AM and Linux
PoeticIntensity
When I'm not listening to music, I love listening to a few AM talk radio programs. Well, about six months ago, one of my favorite radio stations, KNRS 570 AM radio, changed their streaming program that let people use the Internet to hear their content.
This change effectively shut-out all Linux users. I chatted with 4 other Linux use...
Gentoo / Linux / Miscellaneous
Mon - May 05, 2008 : 02:11 pm
grateful
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Collin's Nursemaid Elbow
PoeticIntensity
I just thought I'd write a little something....
Since about a year ago, Collin's elbow has been easily pulled out of joint, and thus, has had issues with what is known as a nursemaid elbow.
Today, his elbow got pulled out of the socket again, and my wife called me with another appointment to the doctor's office.
Well, this time, I got to t...
Personal
Sat - Jul 12, 2008 : 01:30 pm
content
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OpenFire gentoo problems
PoeticIntensity
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
Sun - Dec 30, 2007 : 08:12 pm
spiritual
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The Power to Change
kelly miller
(poem)
The Power to Change
Are there tears in me
For who I want to be?
Humbly in meek prayer,
I'll extend all energy.
With God's help I can abstain.
A new life I can obtain.
I will hold to the rod,
With my life close to God
Through His narrow paths I will trod.
Can these tears of mine
Cleanse all my soul and mind?
With the S...
Poetry
Tue - Sep 30, 2008 : 02:29 pm
tired
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Mosiah : 18 - 20
PoeticIntensity
I read Mosiah 18 yesterday and found that due to the mindset I'm having now of an overall perspective, it was hard to get into all the details of what Alma was saying. This is a great chapter for new members, or people who are trying to understand baptism.
One question I have always had with this scripture is, "Where did Alma get the ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 27, 2009 : 12:14 am
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Great Sunday!
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Today was a good Sunday. In church, we learned about trials, and the nature of them - why God gives them to us, and why we need them. D&C 58 1-4 is a great reference if you're looking for some good stuff on trials. We talked a lot about Zion's Camp, and the general tendency the early saints had toward generati...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 11:00 pm
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Mosiah : 2
PoeticIntensity
It's been a long time since I have read the Book of Mormon. Well, I decided to repent tonight and read where I left off at Mosiah.
One scripture which always stands out to me in this chapter is the latter portion of verse 9. King Benjamin is telling people how they should prepare themselves to hear his message, and thus he says:
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Sep 21, 2009 : 05:03 pm
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New Studio!
PoeticIntensity
Although I've got quite good at it, I've been in web development for too long. My passion has always been in music, and it's about time I did something about it.
Knowing that I need to keep my family safe, and having been bitten some by risky endeavors, I'm taking baby steps at first, but it's now official.
Advanced Budget Studios is offi...
Audio / Personal
Wed - Jul 06, 2011 : 10:17 am
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Ether : 5
PoeticIntensity
So... To be honest, this chapter is kind of confusing. Verse 1 and 2 is like Moroni is talking directly to Joseph Smith, due to his referencing the ability to "translate". That in itself is kind of cool. I've often thought what it must have been like to be Joseph Smith receiving the plates and translating when he gets to...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Sat - May 01, 2010 : 07:56 pm
excited
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New Friends of The Studio
AudioGuru
So, due to the success we've been having with the studio, we were able to upgrade our two in-studio guitars. We bought a new black Crafter acoustic guitar, which sounds just awesome. One of the new Herod The Fink tunes will feature the Crafter, and we're excited to get a final mix to see how it sits within the music.
We also bought a ...
Audio / Audio Hardware / Music
Fri - Jun 25, 2010 : 10:38 am
excited
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Herod The Fink Continues...
AudioGuru
We had the awesome opportunity to work, once again, with Herod The Fink last weekend, and ended our session with some serious improvements to some songs we had already recorded.
We totally re-invented the introduction to Desperate Husband's Chorus, which now is sure to give a healthy round of grins to all that hear it. We also put a pretty ...
Audio / Music
Sun - Jul 13, 2008 : 06:07 pm
grateful
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Thoughts of Family...
PoeticIntensity
This morning I woke up and just was in a good mood... Feeling very grateful for lots of things... So, I decided to make a video of it all, and I think it turned out okay.
Just a jumble of thoughts and emotions from yours truly.
Enjoy.
...
Personal
Sun - Jun 22, 2008 : 11:57 pm
excited
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LAN PARTY!
PoeticIntensity
Well... I figured I'd better write about this because I didn't have the sense to take any video of the actual party.
I recorded myself going TO the party, but nothing more. Crud.
It was a good LAN party, too. We played last Friday and Saturday. We had the usuals there, Me, Shane and Shaun, but there were two people who never had...
Current Events / Personal
Sun - Oct 02, 2011 : 12:14 am
okay
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Moroni : 4
PoeticIntensity
I think these chapters are too short. Interesting to note that the scripture says that the elder or priest would "kneel down with the church", yet the congregation doesn't kneel down today.
Also interesting to note that the sacrament prayer is one of very few prayers which have to be said verbatim, and hasn't changed at all ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Fri - Sep 30, 2011 : 10:50 pm
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Moroni : 3
PoeticIntensity
Moroni 3. This one isn't speaking much to me, but I did find it interesting that only after they prayed, the disciples excercised their priesthood to ordain offices in the priesthood. ...and that it was done through endurance through faith on the name of Christ. Enduring to the end has always been pretty much the last key to...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Tue - Jun 09, 2009 : 09:40 am
tired
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Alma 28
PoeticIntensity
Man... It's been months since I wrote about the Book of Mormon. I will finish it, though, and I will write about each and every chapter therein.
So, about this chapter.
Nothing really jumped out at me as being extraordinary, and I didn't expect it to be so short. It seemed like this chapter was just a wrap-up chapter for the a...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Feb 01, 2008 : 01:29 am
content
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1st Nephi : 20
PoeticIntensity
I've often wondered why Nephi included the portions of scripture containing the writings of Isaiah.
I remember one time during my mission when I was reading the stuff in 2nd Nephi and it actually made sense, but I didn't write any of it down, so.... it still makes no sense to me.
Only one verse out of this chapter gave me any inspiration at all...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual