Hired!

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I stepped out in faith and prayed to God, not only for a job, but for a well-paying web design job to start on April 15. I asked for it in faith, but always in full submission to God’s will. I told Tiff not to worry about my employment, because on April 15, I would be starting my first day of work.

Today, the good Lord answered my prayers: to the letter. I never tire of saying it, but there is most definitely a God, and he always works for the good of those who love Him. Praise Him, people, I’m employed!

(For security, I can’t tell you exactly what kind of company it is. Let’s just say I’m helping a worthy nonprofit to infect truth. And as an added bonus, I’m learning PHP/MySQL. Yay!)

ADDENDUM: No, no, I’m not with Infect-Truth itself, I’m with a similar organization. But rest assured I will attempt to bring some of that visual flair and panache to the different sites on this network. In a valid, usable, and standards-compliant way, of course. :)

Archive fixed

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Okay, all done! Entries restored from the Google cache have been combined into a single 690KB file. The webcam is back, too, but only intermittently, as I’m not always able to get the webcam terminal at this internet rental shop. ;)

Archive damage

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I’ve determined the extent to which my weblog was damaged by that DB problem: there are huge, gaping holes in my monthly archive from April 2001 to January 2002. The whole month of December was wiped out. I’ll have to work on restoring them by going over to the Google cache.

I suppose this should only underscore the importance of doing regular backups of your archives. MovableType users, export often!

Taym Matsing and Dogmeat

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Hey, Jio is back, hosted on Republihk! He’s not kidding about that “dog-eaters” graphic, folks; dog meat is a popular beer-drinkers’ delicacy in some parts of the Philippines. I haven’t tried the stuff myself, but on one visit to Barangay Laoag, Ilocos Norte, I did get to watch villagers slaughter, skin, slice, and stew a stray dog. We even got it on tape. Yummy.

Beowulf’s Dinosaurs

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Interesting. John is reading through some literature on “dragons” — which some theorize were medieval dinosaurs — of which there were sightings as late as the early 1600’s.

Of course, the question must be asked: Why haven’t we found matching bones in the area which can be dated appropriately? I want to avoid the common creationist idea that the fossils we have were actually pre-flood dinosaurs. While I do believe in the Creation (albeit as a crusty old-Earther), I’m not a big fan of creation “science,” which often takes the liberty of non-credible leaps of logic to be able to prove the young-earth premise at any cost.

Still, having just visited the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian, I’m fascinated by the possibility of dinosaurs (or dinosaur-like creatures) surviving as far as the Middle Ages. I wonder if any unbiased paleontological research can support it?

Wait. My brain suddenly decided to stop working. Creationism issues overload. Will eat now.

Googlewhack

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Via MeFi, I’ve just discovered the fun of GoogleWhacking. How it works: Run a search for two words which return only one result, then multiply the number of results for each individual word to get your score.

Try not to mention the search term in your weblog or on any indexable webpage, or your Whack gets lost the next time your page is indexed. Instead, provide a non-descriptive link to the search result, like this. (That was my first Whack: 285,250,000 points.)

Campbell and Star Wars

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Joseph Campbell my foot, says writer Stephen Hart. Apparently Star Wars traces its origins to early 20th Century pop science fiction, and not from Campbell’s dubious “cookie cutter” mythology.

In any case, Campbellian or otherwise, Anakin and Amidala can go and have their sci-fi teenage romance flick. I have absolutely no intention of paying money to see Episode 2. I made that mistake with Episode 1, and I’m not making it again. Nuh-uh. Forget it.

Blog Post 600

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If the numbers are to be believed, that was my 600th blog entry.

And whoa hey, I just found a huge jar of manzanilla-stuffed olives tucked in the back of my uncle’s fridge. There must be more than a gallon of them. I don’t know how long they’ve been there, but they sure taste good. Hooray for olives!