“OpenOffice.org” what I love about OpenOffice.org: For writing long documents and document based upon content (vs. design), I love OpenOffice.org. I really love the “styles” feature as I’ve always advocated creating the document content and formatting afterwards.
What I wish OOo had is:
* MS Word’s outline mode. Maybe it exists, but I can’t seem to find it if is in there somewhere.
* MS Word’s grammar checker. I like to write according to very strict grammar rules. I love Word’s green underlines to remind me when I start to get too loose.
* MS Word’s auto shapes. OOo has these, so I’m not sure why I like Word’s better, but maybe it’s because of the drawing toolbar at the bottom of the window and it’s ability to show a preview of the shape. Admittedly I don’t use this feature too much in Word or OOo as most of my writing is the text for sales brochures or pamphlets and the visual work is done in another program. However, I have done some complete projects.
Also, if anyone knows how, I’d like to learn to create a table of contents using OOo. There’s a contact link in the nav bar titled “Tell me your thoughts” if you know how.
taxes are paid. It was painful, but I think we’ve finally got this thing figured out. By the way, anyone who says being self employed is a dream probably hasn’t been self employed. Some things are better, but some things aren’t. Paid vacations? Gone. Benefits? Uhm… The fewer employees you have the less ability you have to bargain for good rates on insurance and what not. Some of your taxes go up, although you may have increased opportunity to deduct some stuff.
Fortunately, we do still have Chopin, Liszt and Jesus.
“If you love me, you will obey what I command.” – John 14:15 For those who declare that the Bible is a message of love in order to avoid confrontation with their sinfull lifestyle, I point towards this verse. The Bible is a book of love and of hope; God’s love is evidenced not only in his mercy but also in his justice, however. Therefore, for those who love God there is mercy and forgiveness and for those who deny God there is judgement.
If you love God, you will obey His commands. A lifestyle that is obedient reflects a pattern of righteousness. There may be occassional sins but the pattern is not of sin. If a person’s life is a pattern of sin or self centeredness with occassional acts of righteousness, then that is person who does not love God.
If you do not love God, then do not expect His blessings.
MattNuzum: “Finally, I’m getting good ones” Let’s amend that… When I blogged this I had some good banner ads. Since then I’ve recently gotten an influx of banner ads for some cult groups that I don’t want to mention (out of fear of getting more of their banner ads).
We should seed the results a little. How to Be Like Jesus and Let us fix our eyes on Jesus and one of my favorites, open source software in ministry 1 and oss in ministry 2.
So there.
Have we not all one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?
The United States has broken faith. A detestable thing has been committed in this country: We have desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves, by worshipping money and being materialistic. As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord cut him off from the blessings of heaven and from the family of God – even if he does good things and brings offerings to church. — based on Malachi 2:10-12
A Muslim Looks at the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus: “I cried uncontrollably as I was praying and turning to Christ…” Well, you may have seen my previous rants about banner ads on my site… Finally, I’m getting good ones. I was starting to think that Muslims where purchasing ad space but I went ahead and clicked the link to find a powerful testimony of a muslim converted to Christ. Please read it, I think you’ll like it. Here’s another testimony, Randy Waters, ex Jehovah’s Witness, that is extremely informational. He held an important role helping to publish material for the Watchtower and other WTBTS publications.
Increasingly I feel like our society is making a grave mistake by raising kids to be kids and not responsible, mature adults. So much emphasis is put on allowing kids to have fun while responsibility and work ethic are de-emphasized.
Imagine this story: A business puts an ad out for help wanted and gets two interested applicants. Both being honest, the first candidly points out that he is brilliant and a member of Mensa, but is lazy and really doesn’t like to work. The second states that he likes to work hard and, while he doesn’t know everything, does like to learn.
Which applicant would get the job? If I were the hiring manager, I would hire the hard working applicant.
Crosswalk.com – weblogs: “millions of Americans claim to believe in a god they do not fear” Moral relativism is literally taking over our country.
Oh, almost forgot… Hungarian + Cuban = ? 7-11 is giving game pieces away on the Big Gulp cups that have a 1 in 3 chance of winning a free song from itunes. Well, I won two songs and since it was free music I figured I’d go a little crazy. I was looking for something a little hungarian and came across “Classic Meets Cuba” by Cubapercussion & Klazzbrothers. If you have itunes, use this link: Classic Meets Cuba. If no itunes then use this link: Classic Meets Cuba. I bought their version of Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor. If you like it, buy a copy of the album and while you’re at it, buy me one too! 
In case you’re wondering, I also bought “He Ain’t Heavy” by Al Green.
Well, who can let this week go by without mentioning “The Passion of the Christ?” Certainly not I. I’m preparing to see it, but from several sources I trust, he adheared to the biblical account of the subject, which is very noble for a Hollywood actor/producer such as Mel. Will he make money on this movie? Yes, probably. However, will he ever work again? That remains to be seen.
I certainly do hope that this is not the end of Mel’s Career and I’m thankful that he had the guts to stand up for what he believes. Everyone is pushing this tollerance thing lately, but I just have to say that there are some things that we need to stick to our guns on. Maybe for some people the issue of religeon is not an absolute, but my guess is they have at least one thing in their life that they feel is absolute and could not stand to be wishy-washy on. For many, this element is their religeous conviction.
However, despite our convictions, it’s difficult to stand up for what we believe when there are many vocal oponents. Yet Mel Gibson did just that, and I’m glad. I hope that someday, I too have the guts to do what he did.
Final question: “The Passion of the Christ” focuses on the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life, with his ministry and his resurection being skimmed over. Many would say that it is more important for these aspects of Christ’s life to be known. I guess that’s why we rarely see or learn much about the crucifiction. However, what will be the response of those people who are not yet Christians and who have been moved by this motion picture? Did Mel think, “People are going to see this and want to be saved?” I hope that is what people think, but I wonder if that will really happen.