Esotropiart EsoBlogPore over a vast and growing collection of short articles of life. Amidst other topics you will find informative tutorials, thoughtful reviews and the occasional glimpse into the importance and meaning of life. EsoBlog portrays the , the underlying theme of Esotropiart as a whole.Meu Irmo, Fernandes- (Found August 15, 2008 ) The Book is On the Table, Meu Amigo Est No Cu Upon our return from family camp, my wife and I were greeted with some sad news. Our Brazilian friend Fernandes has struggled against heart problems all his life. Last Monday he lost the physical side of the battle and passed away. I was horribly saddened by the news, for when I heard of his recent relapse of illness, I was thinking to myself, "I hope I get to see him again". Now I won't get this chance, and it grieves me to think about...http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=228&fetch=1 Google Google Base Base Clutter Clutter- (Found August 15, 2008 ) Have you ever googled Google I hadn't either until this evening. Apparently they have a pretty good handle on how to write effective web pages that are ranked quite high because basically every one of the first many pages of results is a direct link to their site via one of their many technology subdomains (though I'm sure they didn't "cheat" their own system and put their pages first). The amount of Google on the web makes my head spin. Do they have billions of employees Yes, in fact.http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=236&fetch=1 EsoQuery Returns- (Found August 15, 2008 ) Last night I reactivated EsoQuery after a day's work getting it ready. In preparation, I looked through the PHPXHTML source code line-by-line, making sense of it and inflicting some minor structural and logical changes. I also made some noticeable changes to the interface for readability and good sense. I took EsoQuery offline back in April primarily because it was then that I made the decision that EsoQuery was important enough to be its own separate page. It used to be lumped together on the..http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=235&fetch=1 Evangel Youth Group - Epic, Ethos, and Beyond- (Found August 15, 2008 ) " height="" alt="Ethos" Since I have seen our youth group grow under the leadership of Ryan, I have come to appreciate these young people more and more. I really like having them as part of our church. It would suck not to have them there. They are provide a crucial element. Yesterday I got an email from our youth pastor asking if I wanted to help out with creating an image to work as a logo for a group he is planning to form. This group, called "Ethos", will meet every couple weeks..http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=234&fetch=1 Microsoft Lives- (Found August 15, 2008 ) Somebody's feeling threatened. Forget everything you ever heard about the rumor regarding Microsoft and Google being direct competitors. Don't forget the content of the debate, simply forget the debate and the rumor themselves. It is no longer a rumor or debate, but fact. If you have any doubts, visit Microsoft's new live.com. Does anything look familiar Can you say "Flamboyant Google Clone" Let's just say that the sleeping giant has awakened. Mickey, Goofy and Donald (perhaps Google,.http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=233&fetch=1 Some People Call Me Batman- (Found August 15, 2008 ) I'll never forget once upon a time in high school when I had a rare (and dorky) coming-out-of-my-shell moment. I believe I was a freshman, and I was in front of the entire student body (and parents and guests too, if I remember right) at an assembly, microphone in hand. I don't remember the exact occasion, but I think I was sharing some feelings and appreciation for the seniors that year or something. I had some friendships with some of them. All the seniors were sitting up on the stage. I...http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=232&fetch=1 The Man Aint No Thang- (Found August 15, 2008 ) Sorry folks, I didn't really like The Man, with Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy. It had a few funny moments, but it was mostly predictable and mindless. As my dad said (paraphrased) after the disc stopped spinning, "the situation of a cop and a dufus partner has been done too many times". I suppose there were a few unique attributes that made this movie different than previous renditions of the same scenario, but I wasn't particularly impressed. Perhaps the worst drawback for me was.http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=231&fetch=1 DaColas: T'ai Chi and Wu Shu Fruit of the Day- (Found August 15, 2008 ) " width="" height="" Call me crazy, but here is the world's first blog entry about color coordinated daily fruit and Wu Shu. For those of you who don't know, Wu Shu is Chinese martial arts, including a variety of forms and disciplines. T'ai Chi and flowing, internal martial arts forms are superior. They are superbly beautiful. I wish I had more aspiration to learn them all. I have no desire to fight or inflict violence. I simply get a grand feeling of release, accomplishment and peace from...http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=230&fetch=1 Dynamic Blog Entries - Bejeweled 2- (Found August 15, 2008 ) I have been thinking: technically, it is possible to have dynamic blog entries. Meaning that, if I wanted to, I could write some good ole PHP scripting within any blog entry, and it would execute on the server before being sent to the user, just like any other dynamic part of the page. Duh, that's obvious, nothing exciting or new. But I haven't necessarily written a blog entry that has changing content. In fact, I somewhat avoid it. I think it might even break an unspoken ethic of blogging....http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=229&fetch=1 Esotropiart on Google's Blog Search- (Found August 15, 2008 ) Usually when I receive hits via a search engine, I go the search engine and retype the query as it appears in my stats, just to see if I can find the same result they did. After writing the huge entry on Microsoft's relatively new Live.com, I got a hit from Google's BlogSearch engine. I retyped the query "Windows Live Local", and sure enough, I was the second result out of all the blogs in the multiverse! Unfortunately I can't prove it because I tried exactly the same search again...http://www.esotropiart.com/blog/blog.php?end=237&fetch=1 |