However, if we search God’s Word faithfully and look to mature Christians who possess wise insight, we will quickly see that worship is much more than songs. Worship is what we were created for, it’s what we’ll spend eternity doing, and it encompasses our hearts as well as our actions.

It also matters what we sing. It’s been established that our ungodly culture has low expectations for young people. But when it comes to worship, even the Christian community has low expectations for us. Worship songs targeted for kids, tweens, teens and young adults, have dumbed down the lyrical content because they think we’re too dumb to understand anything harder.

Sadly, in far too many cases this assumption is correct. Young people who don’t study their Bibles faithfully, who don’t read hard books, and who can’t sit through “grown-up” sermons, probably can’t comprehend the profound truths found in timeless hymns like And Can It Be That I Should Gain, or Rock of Ages.

Perhaps someone would say he is over-generalizing, but in a general, megachurch way, he's right from what I've seen. And not just because And Can It Be happens to be one of my favorite hymns.

He goes on to list some musical artists who are writing modern-day hymns and the like. I've heard of a a few, but I'll have to check out the others.

Jesse landed a new job six months later — but it was near San Diego in Escondido, Calif., about 110 miles from his parents’ house in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk. With apartment rentals at a premium near his office, he hasn’t been able to find a place he can afford. So instead, he’s spending hours on the road each day, and occasionally even sleeps in his car instead of making the long trek.

Jesse estimates he pays $215 a week for gas, and he also pitches in some rent to help his parents with the rising cost of their adjustable-rate mortgage. But so far he hasn’t found a housing solution that would make better financial sense.

Doing the math, that comes out to nearly $900 a month in gas. Let's assume he's paying his parents around $100. So he has $1000 available to rent an apartment somewhere around Escondido. Rent.com found 94 apartment listings in Escondido under $1000 per month. Maybe he's holding out for 2-bedrooms?

He could be one of the people Newsweek just wrote about who continue to get subsidized by their parents to live a lifestyle beyond what they could afford on their own.

One 25-year-old friend—whose parents pay for more than half her rent and all her utilities, as well as giving her spending money—snubbed the idea of compromising her lifestyle for financial independence. Another, a 22-year-old who gets a portion of her rent paid by Mom and Dad, admitted she would be willing to cut back on "superfluous spending," but was reluctant to move out of Manhattan and into a more affordable borough like Brooklyn or Queens.

Living the American Dream...

What if Noah Blogged...

• Day 1 - Rain.
• Day 2 - Rain.
• Day 3 - Rain.
• Day 4 - Rain.
• Day 20 - I hesitate to write this down, but here goes. . . . I was working late last night when I felt something bite the back of my neck. Without thinking, I slapped it. Long story short, the new world might have to do without the zhingi-zhingi fly.
• Day 25 - New Year’s Day. A few resolutions for this year:
  - Lose weight (let’s face it, I’m not 300 years old anymore)
  - Work out more
  - Read the entire Bible (there’s only four chapters in the whole thing, you think I would have done this one already)
  - After we land, once a week: date night with the missus.
• Day 45 - Okay, so when God said he would make it rain forty days and forty nights, I assumed that we would be done after that. Apparently I was wrong.
• Day 87 - Very, very wrong.

From commentator SIMONFT

• Fixed bug with file catalogs to properly match on file location
• Changed Arxiv fetcher to remove ID version number from results
• Updated drag-and-drop to allow HTTP urls, i.e. dragging bibtex file from browser
• Updated Porbase in z39.50 server list
• Fixed copy() for text selection in main entry view

It's really hard to focus at work today...heh

It runs very slowly so I suspect I have a bad loop somewhere, or a hung job, or something. But at least, it's a start. I can actually test-run it and figure out what's going on.

Developing on it has been different since I can't figure out how to get KDevelop3 to do what I want in the KDE4 build approach (separate build-dir, using cmake, etc.). Mostly, it's been kate.

The work is going on in the Tellico SVN trunk.

There was a contact phone number attached to the vendor, but from what I can tell, there's no point in trying to call them.

But for at least the last decade, the glamour of space travel has increasingly been shaped by machine-driven research -- the heart-stopping photos of star formation from space-based telescopes, the stunning close-ups of Saturn's rings and the surface of Titan from the Cassini-Huygens probe and the weird anthropomorphizing of the cute little rovers.

Cute little rovers? Those are workhorse mobile field geologists!

He quotes Dr. Elachi as saying we have 19 spacecraft operating in space right now. I hadn't realized we had so many! Go us...

My girlfriend and I went to Griffith Observatory to watch the landing, as they had a special show setup.

They were showing NASA TV in the Nimoy Theater, which was filled up rather quickly. They also projected it on a screen outside in the gallery.

It was nice to see such a big crowd there to watch! And needless to say, there was a great round of applause and excitement when it was announced that a signal had been received from the surface!

Two weeks ago, we also went to the JPL Open House. The Mars Science Lab mockup was out for show. That'll be our next Mars encounter!

• Added languages and editors to Amazon.com search.
• Fixed PubMed search to use UTF-8, and to include all keywords.
• Updated MODS import to improve importing from RefBase and WIKINDX.
• Updated XML file loading to remove duplicates and ignore white-space.
• Added LCCN validation and multiple LCCN searching from z39.50 sources.
• Improved IMDb search results.
• Updated entry creation to always add default values.
• Updated MODS conversion to add Canadian LCC values.

UPDATE: The en_GB translation was broken, so I fixed it, and made a 1.3.2.1 release.

As you can see, landing Phoenix on Mars is a massive team effort that requires a great deal of coordination and attention to detail. Over the next week we'll hopefully offer some insight into those details as we post blog entries from various members of the team. On landing day I'll be providing frequent updates following the action at JPL and in mission control at JPL during landing, so be sure to check back often to see the latest on our approach to the red planet.

I took a quick look around and didn't see an RSS or Atom feed. Hmmm...

They started putting up the Pathfinder, MER, and Phoenix models in the mall again yesterday. I expect there's lots of stuff happening on-lab on Sunday. I plan to go to Griffith Observatory to watch the landing events.

Tellico is a program that works to help you manage a collection, whether it's of your short stories or of your favorite novels. It can help you keep track of anything writing related that requires database maintenance.

I can certainly work around the issue, and in fact, it's probably best if I do. I'll have updated templates in the next Tellico release. But I haven't actually filed a bug report yet, since I'm trying to find other examples of this usage pattern.

UPDATE: looks like it's RedHat bug 442097, and the libxslt code change has been reverted in Fedora RPMs.

UPDATE2: I filed GNOME bug 531873

UPDATE3: It's been fixed in libxslt SVN and 1.1.24 will be out soon.

Remarkably, I stumbled upon Tellico, a program that met all these requirements and then some, after six months of on-and-off searching.

Developed by Robby Stephenson as a hobby, Tellico is described as a collection manager for KDE, a common desktop environment for Linux. Ubuntu Linux uses the Gnome desktop, but can install and run KDE applications with no problem. To install Tellico, simply choose it in the Synaptic Package Manager.

I don't think Tellico has ever been mentioned in a newspaper before. This is a milestone!