While on the subject of quotes, here are two of my favourites for the past couple of years.
“When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
Barbara J. Winter
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Unknown
After the recent amount work on my personal weblog, I feel it’s time to take stock and quickly jot down all the customisations which have been made here. Also, if by chance another :mt: newbie comes along, hopefully this can be useful to him/her too.
Yesterday received this from a mailing list Inspiration Peak which I subscribe to:
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melody Beattie
Very timely.
Some time during my grad school days, I ‘accidentally’ acquired a habit of starting on a new book before finishing the previous one. Some books, not in any particular order, which have made it into this to-finish category are:
Managed to take some time to go to the local library (known as the “National” Library here in Singapore, consisting of a network of regional libraries) tonight. Borrowed two books:
Hopefully will have some interesting reading to do in the coming weeks, as well as learning a lot about PHP!
Roughly two months ago, while browsing through (rather aimlessly, I must admit…) searched results on Amazon, I came across a book with the title Left behind. Quite fascinated by the title, I did a bit more investigating and it turned out that this series of books has been around for quite a few years by now, and has been discussed quite regularly on some Christian websites. Here is its home on the internet.
Finally, have settled on very a simple interface – in fact, currently using one of the default templates from :mt: site. One full round and then back to the start, you might say…
After struggling a whole day with the templates, style sheets, deciding on colours, etc., finally I am somewhat satisfied with the result – well, for the time being anyway. It is also a good thing that I have broadband connection (ADSL) now, given the number of uploads/rebuilds I have had to do today. However, still cannot figure out the differences between the ‘rusty’ and ‘trendy’ default templates which make the webpages behave differently in some subtle (but very interesting) ways?
Unavoidably, have started tinkering with the ‘look’ of this site, and hence fallen into the trap of ‘appearance before content’… Hope this phase will pass soon so that I can get on with the ‘real’ job! On a serious note, having a pre-imposed structure (by using a weblog) does facilitate having a well-organised web site up and running in a very short time, thus avoiding spending excessive time beautifying while the content is ignored.