Math Help Hotline

There are some classic lines in this 911 call.

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/yqmmjfzynr–Math-Homework-911-Call

WeTheChurch.org Goes Live!

A couple of weekends ago Scott had me work on a small project for him and today it finally went live. The website is www.WeTheChurch.org and it’s a place for visitors to post prayer requests and praises.

Here are a couple of points about it:

• You don’t have to have an account to make a post
• The only information saved is your 140 character post and the date and time your post was submitted
• People can stay up to date on the posts by subscribing to the RSS feed or by following it on Twitter

The site is very simple and plain but I think it really becomes useful when people start using it with Twitter. If you haven’t heard about the Twitter service before it’s new fangled way to stay up to date with people. People can post 140 character messages and anyone following that person can be updated through text, IM, RSS feeds, or the website. So in WeTheChurch’s scenario, whenever someone posts a prayer request, everyone following the WeTheChurch Twitter account can have the prayer request instantly IM’ed to them, text messaged to them, or show up in their RSS reader. I think it’s really cool that people’s needs and praises can be known about so quickly and directly!

I also think think it’s good that it keeps you mindful of others and how you never know what they might be going through. At the same time it helps you stay mindful of God and everything that he’s working on in other people’s lives.

Visit the site a couple of times a day and take a few minutes to pray and rejoice with others. You get a real sense of the world calling out to God and a real sense of all the blessings that God is pouring out on people’s lives. Want to know something else? When we call out to God we’re not an anonymous request thrown into a pool of others, he knows us personally and can meet us right where we’re at.

My New Portal Page

I just fell in love with my RSS feed aggregator (Netvibes) all over again today. They just released a new version of their system and it included a new “My Universe” feature. “My Universe” is a section of my account that allows me to have a collection of feeds and social widgets that are public for anyone to see. I can share my favorite youtube videos, most recent del.icio.us bookmarks, and let everyone else check my favorite feeds.

It can also be a mini profile page like a facebook account where people can write on my wall and interact with my account. I have to admit that Facebook has pretty much become a profile account filled with widgets connected by friend relations. Facebook’s problem is that it started out as a social friend site first and then tried to widgetize everything. This has left it very cluttered and hard to look at with everything being listed in long vertical columns. I just read the other day that Facebook is thinking about creating tabs for profiles so profile information, widgets, and other stuff can be separated. Well whadaya know, that basically describes what Netvibes has been for years. A tabbed widget system under a profile, except they are just now allowing public pages which opens it up to so much more.

Having this public widget page really struck a love note with me mainly because the old site I used to have (walkingfreely.com) had turned into something along these lines but I just recently let it die because I didn’t want to continue paying for its hosting. I had written some ASP to pull in my most recent bookmarks, flickr images, and youtube videos because I was excited to share the interesting stuff I had found on the web. It was also the only way I would keep up an internet presence because I have never been in to blogging regularly but I enjoyed just bookmarking/favoriting stuff and having other people instantly be able to view it.

So now that I’ve talked long enough about it I guess you want to check it out. Have fun!

http://www.netvibes.com/kpeterson85

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