Merry Christmas to all, God’s blessings on you and your families.

Glenn

This is a great idea. I hate having to keep making the rounded corners for nice HTML layouts, and here someone has gone & written code to do it for me. All nice & CSS compliant too.

Pick your foreground & background colours and you’re done. Kudos to Carlos Rinc´n

[via the WSG mailing list]

If you’re in Sydney & have a spare AU$50, I highly reccomend going for a spin on the Oz Jet Boat. Absolutely amazing. Goes all around the harbour at around 80kph and every few minutes he chucks the boat into a 270^° spin.

But if you get to choose a spot on the boat, I suggest getting in the second row on the far right. You seem to get less spray on that side & the person in front shields you a lot. Of course if you want the spray, then the front row is the go. The turns are amazing, and sometimes the boat dips so low it seems that the water’s going to start pouring in. Then there’s the nose-dive when you jump the wake of one of the ferrys and the water just sprays over the whole boat.

No matter what, you’re going to get wet. Allow me to demonstrate:

Before Jetboat

After Jetboat

Top, if not cheap, fun!

• Campaign Monitor – The right way to design a web application. Completely free trial for as long as you like. Only limited to sending 5 emails at a time. Well designed and comprehensive reporting too. This is the way web services should be written.
• Harry Fuecks has some suggestions on blog comment spam. Personally I favour just shooting developers who write this sort of code.
• Linux Forums. Great place for poor developers like me who have to double as a sysdamin. Plenty of Syndication Feeds broken down into categories too.
• Britney Spears & Paris Hilton top most-searched-for-person list. In other news, studies have found that the Pope is Catholic!
• The SMH reports that parents can influence whether their kids start drinking too early too much. Parents imposing their fascist, narrow-minded views on their children? There aught to be a law against it!
• The Doggies’ Whitten Oval is still going to be redeveloped with assistance from the Federal Government, despite fact-free scaremongering from Labor’s Nicola Roxon.

That’ll do for today. Going on the Harbour Jet Boat this afternoon to kick off the work Christmas party.

Dean Peters, webmaster at blogs4God has written that he feels it’s time to change the site. Not just the look-and-feel, but the whole content and purpose of blogs4God.

Originally, the list was established to help the Christian voice be identified in an emerging media, the blogosphere. Now it has become noisy to the point of inefficacy.

Meaning, if I/we could catch up to the backlog of submissions over the past couple months while in transition, would listing these new blogs have any impact whatsoever other than to make blogs4God different like everyone else? If that last statement confused you, ask yourself, would you notice yet another tattoo on Dennis Rodman?

I think he’s probably right. As much as I love blogs4God, it’s probably due for a renovation. All sites renovate over time. I’ve changed my site here a few times, including from Movable Type to Typepad & back again.

Commenting on the suggestions that Dean has made:

The syndication issue is a big one. Now that Google has acquired Blogger and are providing (Atom) syndication as part of the free service, most bloggers have access to syndication of some sort.

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