I’ve edited a couple of old posts lately. For some reason, MT Notifier has sent out notifications as if they were new. I don’t know why, nor how to stop it. So no, that post from a year or 6 months ago isn’t new. Sorry to clutter your inbox with extra mail. Hmm, I guess I just did it again. Sorry again then.

I tend to use my link list as my daily blog run down of sites I check regularly. Every now and then a new blog pops up and as I check them out, I add them to my list. It’s time to do that again, and I have a bunch.
Soupablog is the blog of Paul Soupiset, a friend of Virusdoc. I’ve been visiting there ever since I’ve known the ‘doc, on and off. He writes a lot about the emergent church and music with the occasional graphic design thing thrown in. As with many in the ’emergent church’ movement, I often find I don’t quite relate to (or sometimes understand) where they’re coming from, but I’m usually challenged and enriched by their perspective.
Kristen at Walking Circumspectly was once a member of the ICOC. She experienced some of the worst of our movement during her short tenure there. I found my way to her from her posts on her experiences while there. Since then I keep coming back because she writes significant posts often about rather deep subjects and has deep, thoughtful convictions.
Theologyblog is run by a student minister at the Orlando Church of Christ, an ICOC congregation. He often posts audio of his sermons as well as theology subjects. I stop by now and then. UPDATE 06-20-08: It seems the ICOC guys didn’t keep up Theologyblog and let the domain expire. I frankly didn’t keep up with it for long and long ago removed the link from my blogroll. I just learned that Theologyblog is now owned by an independent Christian group whos beliefs would be closely aligned to that of the Assemblies of God. I got an email from them requesting the information be corrected.
I only started reading Wade Hodges recently with his series on the Emerging Church of Christ. That was enough to keep me coming back for more.
JohnE’s World is a brand new blog by another ICOC alumni, in this case no longer worshiping with an ICOC church. He only has 3 post up now, but he’ a long time close friend of my friend Pfredy, and that’s good enough for me to put a link up here. Besides, he’s been a long time subscriber to my blog updates. 🙂
Folk Alley is an on line all folk music ‘radio’ station that Virusdoc pointed me to a while back. I’m a big fan of this kind of music among others, and I listen to it occasionally, when I don’t have WCBE on.
Movalog is a site dedicated to “All Thing Movabletype”, specifically hacking MT and developing plugins for it. That’s where I got the MT Blogroll plugin and the inspiration for my EasyComments.
Lastly, there’s Google Sightseeing. I think I’m going to need a new category for this one. Since Google came out with it’s new maps feature (which, even if rough around the edges, knocks mapquest out cold) and it recently added satellite photos. From that springs Google Sightseeing, a collection of satellite images of interesting places and things. )By the way: BEG – I tried to look up your farm on Google maps, but Google doesn’t seem to know where you live. Besides, the resolution in that part of WI isn’t that good yet. 🙂
Give me some time to get them all added into the Blogroll.

I’ve streamlined the Blogroll a bit. It was time to prune as a few sites have gone inactive for various reasons.
Requiest has given up on blogging. He’s an infrequent commenter here as ‘Rong’.
Jared, of Thinklings fame, suspended his blogging on April 1st (we all thought it was an April fools joke when he did) for the time being to focus his efforts on completing his novel. His solo blog, Mysterium Tremendum, is still up if you want to peruse the archives, but there will be no new posts there for now. Sad to see him go, he and I have had a few Calvinism discussions which have been enlightening to me. The blogscape is less with him gone, but he posts archived items from Mysterium Tremendum every now and then on the Thinklings.
Lastly, and sadly, I’ve removed two church related links. It appears that both ICOCNews and In Fellowship! are dead. There has been no activity to speak of at either site for months. In its prime, ICOCnews was a great source for news of what was happening in the immediate post Henry Kreite letter era of the ICOC. I suppose its usefulness has passed since it seems that as a movement there’s a general attitude that we’ve learned all we can from that time. I had thought and hoped that InFellowship! would have more life. A bulletin board discussion aimed at bringing folks from the restoration movement together, it never evolved past its ICOC roots and gained a life of its own. What a shame.

I’ve added comment notification subscriptions to my blog. There’s a form on each entry to receive an email when there are new comments on that entry or to receive an email when I post a new entry. Each email notice includes a link for managing your subscriptions. That means that you can now get even more email from salguod.net!
Now how much would you pay?

Sorry I haven’t written much of late. I’ve been spending my computer time tweaking my site and reading other blogs. I have some cool upgrades to implement soon including a means for commenters to edit their own posts. I realize, however, that the half a dozen folks (I think that may be optimistic) that read salguod.net don’t show up here to see what new MT or HTML tweak I’ve come up with. 🙂
It’s supposed to be cold and generally miserable this weekend, which may give me time to post some more substantial stuff.

OK, this is driving me crazy. Could someone who knows what they’re doing in HTML tell me how to do this? Take a look at this post. I want to have those two images right aligned and one over the other with the text full justified to the left. I can’t do it. I’ve tried several things, but none have worked, although a couple of them did preview OK in MT.
I know that I could just paste them together into one image (that’s what I did here) but I know there’s got to be a way to do it with two separate JPEG’s.
Can anyone help?

I’ve had requests (OK, one request) for the code behind my comment formatting buttons and the live preview, so I decided to put it out there for whoever wants it. It’s not a MT plugin, it’s just JavaScript, so I think it will work for any web page with a comment form.
As I said before, I did not write the two JavaScripts themselves, I just hacked them so they’d work together. and gave it a name, EasyComments, which is much catchier than the original name I gave it: ‘Salguod Quicktags With Preview’.
I make no guarantees that these will work for you. I know enough about JavaScript to be dangerous – actually, probably not even that much – so if you have a question, I’m likely to not have an answer. You are on your own and you’ve been warned. 🙂
With all the disclaimers out of the way, download EasyComments 0.2 here.

I’ve installed a plugin called Quicklink that creates links automatically from keywords in posts. But I’m not exactly sure how to use some of the options and there’s no real documentation for them, particularly the ‘global search and replace’ option.
Anywho, I’ve added a quick link for VirusDoc’s blog, without the global search and replace checked. Let’s see if it works:
EDIT: (I removed all the broken links to VirusDoc’s blog. 🙁 )

Matthew 19:3-30, 20:17-34, 26:6-13, Mark 10:2-52, 14:3-9, Luke 18:15-43, 19:1-28, John 11:55-57, 12:1-11
Matthew 19:3-12 – Jesus’ stance on divorce is radical. How do churches get away with looking the other way? Certainly divorce is easier that staying together in may cases. A case could be made for divorce in circumstances of abuse or neglect. Jesus here says plainly that divorce and remarriage is adultery. He also says plainly that divorce is condemned by God. I’m also amazed by the disciples’ response. It’s as if they’re saying, “Gee, if I’m gong to be stuck with her forever, I better not get married.” I like Jesus’ response: “Marriage is not for everyone.” We look at people who are not married with pity. I know that I am not cut out to be unmarried, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t those who equally find married life unfathomable.
Mark 10:13-16 – I sometimes wonder what it means to receive the kingdom like a child. Innocence, trust, yes, but how would a child receive the kingdom? I just can’t quite get it, I’m missing something.
Mark 10:21-22 – I wonder if Jesus is thinking, “Dude, you’ve got a lot to learn about yourself.” I wonder what this rich young man did with the insight into his heart that Jesus gave him? Was he eventually changed? Or did it haunt him until his death.
Mark 10:23-27 – This passage, perhaps more than any other, should scare the bejeebez out of us in the USA. We are so stinkin wealthy, yet we are a ‘Christian Nation.’ Jesus tells us it hard for the rich to enter God’s kingdom. Yet most Christians in the US wouldn’t agree, I think.
Matthew 19:29 – This verse has been twisted to justify neglect of one’s family. In the context of the rich young ruler, is he really saying we must leave our family? Or he simply encouraging the disciples that those who have put their priorities in the right place, and given up many things to pursue God, will be rewarded. It’s an encouragement, in case you need it, not an admonishment to turn your back on those you ought to love.
Luke 18:34 – Intellectual Inertia again. The idea of Jesus being tortured and killed was unthinkable, so even when told plainly, they didn’t believe it.
Matthew 20:23 – I just now got that she was probably thinking of an earthly kingdom. I always wondered how she could be so arrogant to ask for those spots in heaven. She’s trying to secure her sons a prominent place in the new government!
Mark 10:41-45 – Give yourself to my people …
Luke 19:1-10 – Another Rich Young Ruler.
Mark 10:46-52 – Look at how this man’s faith makes him act. He is convinced that Jesus holds hope for him, so he ignores the jeers of the crown and shouts out for him. Then, when Jesus responds, he throw aside his cloak to go meet Him. His cloak was likely one of his only possessions, and his most valuable. Being blind, it would be difficult for him to ind it again in the crowd if it were lost. Yet he tosses it aside like an empty soda can to get to Jesus. I need that kind of faith again. Faith that runs to Jesus with little concern for anything else.
John 12:11 – Here’s an idea, let’s kill the guy who was dead already to stop folks from believing in Jesus. Were they banking that Jesus couldn’t do it twice?