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The object of the 2008 Bible Conference offering was announced today in chapel at BJU. Actually, two Bible Conference offerings (2008 and 2009) will be needed to raise the needed amount of money.

Dr. Stephen Jones unveiled the plans to renovate the front of Rodeheaver Auditorium - one of the auditoriums on campus which houses the major Shakespearean plays, the operas, and the annual Living Gallery presentation among other things. The plans call for a major makeover of the lobby area. It will extend out further allowing for more room for coat areas, a larger, more efficient ticket desk, new restrooms, and perhaps some displays, Dr. Jones said. The covered walks in front of Rodeheaver will also be new to match the other new covered walks already installed on campus. The covered walkways will lead right up to the lobby, as well.

Construction will begin soon after the 2008 Commencement Activities and will hopefully be completed by April of 2009 - just in time for the 2009 Living Gallery. Dr. Jones stated that the approximate cost of the project is around $1.75 million, hence the need for two very generous Bible Conference offerings.

Here are some computer renderings of the project:

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If the title of this post threw you off guard a little bit . . . then it accomplished its purpose. It is a little bit misleading. Yes, Facebook is still blocked on campus. No, I’m not upset about it. In fact, it’s a good thing. I don’t want to check Facebook. I’m way too busy at school and I would get distracted easily. The last thing I need to be doing is to be wasting my precious free time facebooking. Most of my Facebook friends are here at school, too, so going online to write to them (as opposed to email) seems a bit pointless. As a side note, using the Facebook at School application is also forbidden (not to mention unethical in my way of thinking).

I have, however, found a work-around for keeping my off-campus friends up to date on my present status. I set this up over Christmas break and as I suspected, it works.

First, I set up an account with Twitter (twitter.com - which is also blocked on campus) over the break. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a social website which is basically a glorified Facebook Status Message. You’ll notice that I have my Twitter status posted in the right column of this site.

Next, I added the Twitter IM bot to my Google Talk buddy list. Now I can update my Twitter status via Instant Messenger. I simply type my status to the bot, and presto - it’s updated on Twitter.

The last step was to add a Facebook application to my profile which syncs my Facebook Status with Twitter. There are multiple apps that can do this. The one I use is called TwitterSync. This app checks my Twitter status every couple of minutes and updates my Facebook status accordingly.

Now I have a way to keep friends up to date via two methods - Twitter and Facebook. If you use one or the other, feel free to track me. What’s nice is that it’s effortless. A quick click on my buddy list and about 10 seconds to type a status is all it takes.

I hope that answers some questions. No, I’m not facebooking from campus. Yes, I’m updating my status. And how.

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You’ll never guess what this picture is… so I’ll tell you. This is me toasting mini-marshmallows on toothpicks over a pineapple candle. [waits for you to stop scratching your head]. Now I’ll tell you why. I was bored. Normally this is not what I do for fun when I’m bored, but the power was out, you see… so we had about 50 candles lit. Perhaps 12 hours in the dark was finally getting to me… And yes, we did make s’mores out of them. And no, they didn’t taste nasty. Quite good actually.
Granted, this one is not so random, but it’s not what you normally see here. This is my brother’s MacBook Pro running Vista. They say that macs actually run Vista faster than PCs - and I believe it, too.

This is my personal favorite. I was at our local library today, so I decided to peruse the .004 - .005 section (that’s books on computers and programming for those not familiar with that section of the Dewey Decimal system). Some of those books, however, just need to go. I almost laughed out loud … but then I remembered I was in the library. Now that I’m not in the library anymore, I’m laughing. Very hard. What’s better is that this book is over half an inch thick!

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This week saw the revision of www.firstbapleb.org - the website of First Baptist Church of Lebanon, PA (my home church). This site was last revised about 3 years ago, so it was time for a refresh. Now the new-and-improved website features:

• Content Management System - WordPress
• Custom WordPress Theme and graphics
• Wordpress “Widget” Sidebar
• XHTML/CSS Design
• Cross-browser compatibility
• ZenPhoto Gallery
• Custom ZenPhoto Theme to match WordPress Theme

This new website will increase its usability for both the visitors as well as the staff who update it. Check it out and let me know what you think!

You can see the rest of my design portfolio at www.xhtmlpro.com/portfolio.php.

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