Monthly Archives: April 2008

Shout to The Lord!

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Excuse me, but did they just sing Shout to the Lord on television?

Wow! I’m never really one to watch American Idol. (I think I’ve seen 3 episodes in my life). But this video clip on YouTube caught my eye. I’ve heard this song by Darlene Zschech (bio-story) at my church (and on the radio) before, but did not expect to see it show up on American Idol, YouTube, and all over the blogosphere.

Josh Harris thought they watered down the lyrics, but maybe you have a new attitude, and it gives you something to shout about.

My Jesus, My Savior
Lord there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love
My Comfort, My Shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You!

Shout to the Lord, all the earth
Let us sing. Power and majesty, praise to the King.
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I’ll love you, forever I’ll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You!

You can download an MP3 of the song from Amazon.

SEO Song

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Here’s a Rap (or Hip-Hop) song that all about following web standards, and search engine optimization (SEO).

It’s called “Design Coding”

Here’s an excerpt from the lyrics…

make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size
no background colors, keep your coding real neat

tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success
describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate

check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly

CCleaner – Cleans Up Your Computer

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The PC that my wife normally uses became infected with something yesterday, and to make a long story short, I had to clean her PC’s Windows-XP registry. So someone recommended CCleaner, and it worked pretty well. Got my download/installer from FileHippo. Here’s more details:

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast and free!

Registry cleaner – Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Inside the WordPress Loop

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I’ve doing a little reading about the WordPress loop. The WordPress loop is where all the main work get’s done in publishing the articles of the blog. Loops and iteration constructs are very common in many (all?) programming languages, and that is why you see things like “do while” or while, “for x = 1 to z”, or “foreach x in z” in many scripting languages.

The whole idea with Open Source software is that you can modify it, refactor it, change it to be anything you want. However, it is a good idea to start with some very small changes, and it’s really good to begin by reading a few articles about the code, and read the actual source code before you start making any changes.

Anyway, two recent articles, I have have found helpful are: The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop and another called Global Variables and the WordPress Loop.