Journal

Keeping Digg Honest

For those of you who know me, you also know that I have a love / hate relationship with Digg. They seem to love linking to my content, and I generally don’t care for the negativity their readership brings both via comments on my site and Digg itself. In the past, I was simply deflecting all Digg traffic.

However, friends convinced me the embargo really just hurt end-users, by not allowing them to get at the content they were seeking. Fair enough.

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Thoughts on Leadership

For a recent seminary assignment, we were asked to share our personal definition of leadership, and address the question: “Why do church leaders fail?” We were supposed to answer in approximately 400 words. After typing my response, I thought it might also make for a good blog post. Here ‘tis…

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Redirect IE6

Man, having a kid keeps one busy. It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged, but something has been ruminating in my brain recently that I thought I would try out on ye ol’ intarwebs. What got me thinking was this post by Dan Cedarholm.

Serving an unstyled version of a site is all well and good, except it doesn’t let the IE6 user know how to remedy the problem.

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Hudson Wayne Smith

I hope that everyone had a good Christmas, and is enjoying the new year thus far. Personally, I must say that this season will be one for the books, because my wife and I welcomed the first addition into our family. Hudson Wayne Smith was born on December 29th, 2008 at 8:48 AM. He weighed 7 lbs, 5 oz. He is 19” tall. He is ½ Russian, ¼ Japanese, ¼ Scotch Canadian.

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Fellowship (of the) Tech

Today marks one week at my new job, as a User Experience Developer at Fellowship Technologies. A few weeks ago, a third party recruiter from the Rowland Group named Jessica Wilson contacted me on their behalf, asking if I’d be interested in a faith based organization in the DFW area. Initially, I was skeptical because many IT recruiters can’t tell Java from JavaScript, but she seemed well versed in the subject matter, so I decided it might be worth looking into.

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