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Romans 7

I saw a t-shirt at Books-A-Million that depicts Jesus as the Staples' Easy Button. I couldn't help but chuckle, because God must have forgotten to install my Easy Button.

Paul's Struggle With Sin

And I don't think the Apostle Pause had an Easy Button either. I just read about Paul's struggle with sin in Romans 7. In verse 15 he says, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." I can relate to Paul; I always have to learn things the hard way. I know what I am doing is evil, and I do it anyways. Then I experience the guilt and shame.

No Condemnation

The Christian "Easy Button" is a lie. The Bible never says following Christ is easy, but it does say there is no condemnation in Christ. Romans 7:24-25 reads, "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!" It goes on to say in Romans 8:1, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus..."

You and Me

You aren't the only one struggling; I struggle a lot. Paul struggled, but he still fulfilled God's plan for him. God is bigger than sin. God is bigger than addiction. God still loves you. God will forgive you. God can use you, even if you are screwed up like Paul and me.

Joshua 24:15

Joshua 24:15

Top Ten Chuck Taylors

Here are the best Converse All Stars I could find. Note that there are only high tops; the low tops are an abomination.

Chuck Norris vs. Mike Huckabee

Finally there is a presidential candidate who has a plan to secure the border. If Mike Huckabee is good enough for Chuck Norris than he's good enough for me. A vote for anyone else is a vote for roundhouse kick to the face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYv2YW6azE

Dual Screen Fractal Wallpapers

About
A fractal is a mathematical image that looks nifty. Specifically, the following desktop images represent the Julia set and the Mandelbrot set. The dimensions are 2560 x 1024 (1280 x 1024 x 2), but they also look nice on dual widescreens (1280 x 800 x 2).

Windows XP Tip
Discover multiple desktops! Download Virtual Desktop Manager for Win XP. After installation, right click on your taskbar, highlight Toolbars to expand the submenu, and click Desktop Manager.

See Also
[ X-Planes (1024x768x2) | Earth, Sun, & Moon (1024x768x3) ]

Wallpaper

Julia Fractal 1


Julia Fractal 2


Julia Fractal 3


Mandelbrot Fractal 1

Top Ten Reasons I Eat Meat

1. It irks vegetarians.
   
2. Hamburgers taste like Heaven. That's why Indians worship cows.
   
3. Chuck Norris eats meat.
   
4. Help control the pet population. Have your pet filleted and eaten.
   
5. Jesus told me to, twice. (Genesis 9:3 and Acts 10:9-16)
   
6. I love kittens; they taste like chicken.
   
7. More than two thirds of vegetarians eventually die.
   
8. I hate fish.
   
9. Whenever I watch Bambi, I cannot decide who looks more delicious, Bambi or Thumper.
   
10. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. (Darn Godwin's Law!)
    

The Golden Compass

[from Trailer]
Lyra Belacqua: [upon receiving the alethiometer] What is this?
Master of Jordan: It's an alethiometer. It tells the truth. You are meant to have it. You keep the alethiometer to yourself, it's of the utmost importance to yourself, to all of us, and perhaps to all creation. (Internet Movie Database)

You may have heard about The Golden Compass, a children's movie coming out in early December, but you have not heard the whole story. The book was written by Philip Pullman as an atheist's answer to C. S. Lewis's Narnia. "My books are about killing God (Snopes)." The anti-religious themes have been dumbed down for the movie, but many Christians parents may buy the book because the movie seemed harmless. Pullman is blunt about targeting kids with his atheist agenda, "I wanted to reach everyone, and the best way I could do that was to write for children (Wikipedia)."

As a Christian, I will not fiscally support this movie. I hope I'm not the only one.

[11/25/2007 Update: The 'Golden Compass' points to controversy]

Blogger Robot Troubleshooting

Problem

I use Blogger. Why is my robots.txt file blocking everything?

I tried to add a Google Sitemap for my blog and got this error:

URL restricted by robots.txt
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

Bad http://?????.blogspot.com/robots.txt:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /

Solution:

1. Go to Settings > Publishing.
2. Set Send Pings to Yes.
3. Leave some love in the form of a comment. :-D
   

Good http://?????.blogspot.com/robots.txt:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: http://?????.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

Top Ten Security Freeware

I hate adware, spyware, and other malware, but I like freeware. Here are twelve freeware applications that will kill the nastyware:

• Anti-Spyware (Use all of the following.)
  • Lavasoft Ad-Aware (On-demand scanner)
  • SpywareBlaster (Blocks spyware/tracking cookies)
  • Windows Defender (Real-time protection)
• On-Demand Anti-Virus (Optional.)
  • BitDefender
• Real-Time Anti-Virus (Use one of the following.)
  • Avira AntiVir Classic (Best)
  • AVG Anti-Virus (Good)
  • avast! (Better)
• Firewall (Use one of the following.)
  • Comodo Firewall (Best)
  • Sunbelt Kerio Firewall (Better)
  • ZoneAlarm (Good)
• Bonus (Recommended.)
  • (Web browser)
  • Thunderbird (Email application)

Conway's Game of Life Widget

The Game of Life is a simulation developed by John Conway in 1970. A square grid represents the universe, and each cell represents a living or dead entity. For each generation, a set of rules determines whether each cell lives or dies. Despite the simplicity of the rules, the program yields complex patterns.

The challenge is to make this software efficient. The trick is to keep track of which cells change. For the next generation, the program only needs to evaluate the changed cells and their neighbors.

Rules

A cell has 8 neighbors, 2 horizontally adjacent, 2 vertically adjacent, and 4 diagonally adjacent.

• All dead cells with 3 live neighbors are born.
• All live cells with 2 or 3 neighbors survive.
• All live cells with less than 2 neighbors die of loneliness.
• All live cells with more than 3 neighbors die of overpopulation.

Download

Click here for the executable and Visual Basic 6 source code.

Screen Shot



See Also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

When Doves Cry

In college I knew an art major named Vince. I used to call him "The Artist Currently Known as Vince."

Top Ten Juggling Videos

Laurent et Phil | Passing


Greg Kennedy | Conic


Kaori Matsuzawa | Unicycle


Laura Ernst | Educational


Cate Emily | Without Ritalin


Peter Irish | Footbag


Vova and Olga Galchenko | WJF Teaser


Dmitry Chernov | Shaman


Steven Ragatz | Hat and Ball


Vova Galchenko | Fatboy Slim Music Video