WashingtonDeluxe.com
WashingtonDeluxe.com
Washington < -> New York City daily bus for $35 round trip; just found out there’s a competitor formerly called the Dragon Express, for Chinatown to Chinatown service.. and a fairly comprehensive guide to travel between DC and New York City at the Post
A hearty welcome to Jenn
A hearty welcome to Jenn and Ken to the dark side, er, to the wondrous world of blogging! It?s a great place to vent and rant, and hope you?ll have a great time with it!
The thing I?ve discovered over the years of blogging, oh, since 1999, is that most of the people I know in person in real life don?t care about my online life. (Maybe they don?t care about me either.) Unlike Rachel, who thought: I figured probably no-one except a few friends would check out my blog, and was ok with that. I figured starting a blog would be easier than keeping a journal, and definitely a good way of processing my thoughts and feelings about life.
The many online conversations and dialogue I?ve had with my virtual friends is invaluable and enjoyable to me, it allows me to expand my circles of relationships beyond my geographical and physical constraints. That?s a beautiful thing. And when I get to travel, I?ll try to rendez-vous and actually meet them.
ChangeDetection(tm)
ChangeDetection(tm)
incredible free service that monitors a web page for changes, and notifies you by email.. instead of checking your favorite blog every day or use some kind of a RSS syndicating reader thingy, have this web site do the work for you! Also useful for noting when something changes on a site that?s getting ready to announce something new, or get alerted when a redesign was implemented, uses are endless.. also provides code for webmasters to provide this service to users
Technorati
Technorati: Web Services for bloggers.
finds out what bloggers are linking to - so if they?re talking about you, it means you?re popular, with bloggers anyways, and you might be spoken of positively or negatively, but at least they?re talking about you.. better than being ignored, right?
church vs the real world
i?ve been on a tangential spiritual path, and discovering the separatistic great wall of the churched and unchurched.. having vested over a decade past in typical contemporaryish genericized church (many formed by the same 2 sources of Willow and Saddleback [btw, Rick is much more friendly]), it?s been refreshing to discover fuller dimensions of life outside of those constraints.. so much church life is structured thus to be life consuming [the perpetual recruiting of volunteers to serve the inexhaustible needs of church members and sometimes even community members] rather than life inspiring, that would launch people into doing greater meaningful things in life and society.. as Jordon observed, ?I was really struck by how much more I enjoy the blogs outside the church. They seem to be full of so much more? well? life and joy.?
To be fair, or, to give a bigger picture, there are boring uninteresting people inside of church as there are outside, or shall I say it this way, people are people, whether spiritually constrained or free spirited normal people, many (most?) people live with the ebb and flow of marketing themes, societal influences, natural desires and instincts.. people are just human beings in the real world + there is a matrix..
