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Re: Ten Websites I Couldn’t Live Without

Nick — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:35:42 -0000

Google - Without it, how would I find anything?
SitePoint - So I can develop a design aesthetic
FeedBurner - Because I'm stat-obsessed
Amazon - World's Biggest Shopping Mall
CNN - How else would I keep up with the news?
Stock.Exchange - Photos for my blog
Chase - Online banking is essential
ProBlogger - For inspiration that what I'm doing will work someday
GE - Business functions necessitate its use
Ebay - So I can find those sweet c-clamps that I wanted cheap :)

Re: Make Money With MySpace

Nick — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:02:48 -0000

So what is your new project?

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Nick — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:01:20 -0000

Jesse, I have to speak up here and say that you're wrong on a couple of things.

First, the Church did choose which books to put in the Bible and which to take out. They did this based on what was considered truth and what was heresy and it was a necessity of the editing of the book.

Second, the Bible was not written in Hebrew. Parts of it were written in Aramaic but most of it was written in Greek. In many cases, but not all, the Greek was translated to Latin, which was then translated to English.

Third, there is consensus that most of the books of the new testament were written within 2-3 generations after Jesus's death, not 2-3 years. That being said, the books included in the Bible are more relaible than the Gnostic gospels of Judas and Thomas.

I'm not trying to shut you down, but you need to get your facts on target so you can better defend the Church. I am a member of the faith and a devout Catholic myself, but you have to acknowledge the truth before you can defend the spiritual.

Re: My Google Juice

Nick — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:52:55 -0000

I only came up with 195, but I guess that's because we're not all as prolific as you. Luckily I have a pretty unique name so they were almost all about me. Google Nick Ohrn.

Re: Weekend DVD Round Up

Nick — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:16:30 -0000

Mr. and Mrs. Smith was a pretty sweet movie for what it was. I liked the action and appreciated the "on-screen chemistry" that Pitt and Jolie showed.

In an odd turn of events, I think my girlfriend likes Angelina Jolie more than I do...

Re: Technosailor Joins b5media

Nick — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:48:01 -0000

Congratulations Aaron! I've been a reader for a while, and was wondering if you were ever going to join those guys at b5. Glad to hear of your programming change.

Re: Rework this Blog

Nick — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:16:10 -0000

I personally don't mind wide designs as I always browse full screen (and I run dual monitors so that's not a problem). I doubt the people who read this blog have a standard resolution of 800x600, but you'd know better than I.

If you're going to go wide, maybe stick with two columns, but have a kind of pseudo three column effect further down the page. Let me see if I can demonstrate:

________________
| HEADER |
| C1 | Content |
|____| |
|2|3 | |
| | | |
| | | |
|_|__|_________|
|__FOOTER______|

So if that comes out totally screwed up, I claim no responsibility. However, I like the two columsn split into three look.

Maybe in that upper part you could highlight "best posts" or something like that, whereas you would use the ones farther down for advertising or something else. You may totally dismiss this idea, but you asked for suggestions, so there's mine.

Re: Rework this Blog

Nick — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:17:05 -0000

Doh, forgot about wordpress stripping extraneous spaces... I'll throw something together later... Sorry about that.

Re: Rework this Blog

Nick — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:24:34 -0000


________________
|_HEADER_______|
| C1 | Content |
|____|         |
|2|3 |         |
| |  |         |
| |  |         |
|_|__|_________|
|__FOOTER______|

Let's try this again...

Re: Rework this Blog

Nick — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:30:04 -0000

Haha, exactly... thanks for being patient and getting the idea.

Re: Blog Architecture: Conversation

Nick — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:31:13 -0000

Sounds very interesting, and I can't wait to see how it plays out.

I'm most curious about how you're going to handle these different views. Are you going to store a cookie on the users computer that sets their default view?

Re: Blog Overhaul Teaser

Nick — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:00:46 -0000

I can't wait for the new __ Aaron. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you have in store.