Giving when it hurts
Posted by Jen | Filed under My Own Stupidity
So, how long am I supposed to wait between posts? Should I have waited for Chris to post first so we can do a back/forth kind of thing? See, I don’t know the rules yet. My guess is that if I have something to say then I just say it. Cool? Again, nobody reads this so it really shouldn’t matter.
So recently, with great intention, I made a sacrifice to help someone that needed help. I don’t regret doing it and in fact, it really has been a blessing in a lot of ways. And now the infamous “but”… BUT, lately it has become a challenge to keep up the help and its starting to cost me more than just time and money…its costing me ME! I don’t really know how to explain. See, it’s easy to help people when it doesn’t require any of ourselves. We can give away the externals and call ourselves givers, but when it starts to require something personal and it starts to hurt, we, I, pull back. So not only am I dealing with the frustration of the situation right now, I am also dealing with dissappointment in myself.
This is a concept that I am struggling with a lot in my life lately. What credit is it to me if I only give when it is comfortable? What credit is it to me to love the people in my life that love me back? hmmmmm…
I guess if we were all perfect and selfless we wouldn’t need God’s help. I know that I need it more than ever now being a mom and my life being what it is. Most of the time we put some pretty high demands on God like, take care of this, and help me with that, make that person better, get me out of this…In return, He puts some high demands on us like feed my sheep, love your enemies, be a living sacrifice…Yeah, I want that in my life. I pretty much suck at the selfless thing right now, but I want to be better and I know that its getting worked out in me through these situations in my life. I need to decrease and Someone else needs to increase.
I Hate The Fact That
Posted by Chris | Filed under Design, My Own Stupidity
I’m using the default layout (minus the top header picture). This is supposed to be a (psuedo) web designer’s personal page. It’s supposed to be kick-ass. But I just can’t bring myself to mess with the CSS. I guess I’m more scared messing up some PHP code and totally ruining the site.
I have the “PHP and MySQL for Dummies” book and I just got to the part about PHP (it starts off with MySQL), so i feel like I’m just treading water in an uncharted piece of ocean.
Somebody tell me to grow up and quit being such a wuss. Look how many other people have taken the WP template and made it their own…do they all have a master knowledge of PHP? I should think not (at least I hope not).
Seriously, someone come slap me or something…
Edit:
As I post this, my site breaks. It’s like it lost the background image of the body. Oh well. I guess more incentive to redo the site as my own…
Edit #2:
2 minutes later I figured out that I forgot the end quotes on my link HTML, which made the browswer render it as some sort of footer or something. My bad…
Apple Users Take Over Hewlett-Packard Production
Posted by Chris | Filed under My Own Stupidity, Technology
Macs are known, by their own kind, for their ease of use and stylish design. However, non-Mac users (such as myself) sometimes find Macs difficult and tough to navigate (Where is the right-click?!). But here is one story that proves that Mac users are attempting to take over the PC world:Note: The story is completely true!
I have a couple of friends—we’ll call them James and J. James and J are best friends and somewhat technology junkies. They both love computers (in fact, J has built his own system) and consider themselves pretty knowledgeable about software and hardware. However, one problem had them completely stumped.
James’s grandmother bought herself a new laptop and a wireless router. James’s job was to set it up and get it running at super speeds. James’s grandmother had purchased an HP Pavalion and a Linksys 802.11g 54Mbps router. James had the router up, running, and connected to the desktop in a very short time. However, he could not get the laptop to find the router or even the network the router was supposedly putting out. James went through the desktop to configure the router and the network, but with no luck. This went on for a couple hours with little changing. James and his family had other things to do that day, so he gave up on the router for a while. All this in hopes of stepping away from the problem so as to see the solution better.
James got together with J later on that day. James knew J was better at hardware than himself, so James asked J’s opinion on the router problem. J had a few suggestions, but nothing worked. James and J went back to the store to see if any of the salespeople had any ideas. Both James and J quickly realized that they knew more about the problems and solutions than the salespeople. James and J exchanged the router for a Netgear 108Mbps anyway and took the computer back home.
Once at the house, James and J got to work on the problem—installing the new router, configuring the network, and seeing if this router was better than the first. Well, this one did about the same as the last—worked hard-wired to the desktop, but no wireless internet on the HP. James’s wife does have a Mac, which connected effortlessly to the wireless network, however, within minutes.
James and J went through the laptops wireless capabilities, it’s programs and everything they could think of. They right-clicked, left-clicked, double-clicked, enabled, disabled, and refreshed. The knew what the program was that handled the wireless internet. They tried to enable, they disabled it, let Windows control it, enabled it again. Nothing.
James and J finally resorted to the dreaded call—the call to tech support. Just as James got the tech guy through the registration of the HP, he noticed a button. A button that he had never seen on any other laptop or computer—Ever. And it was above the regular keyboard but under the power button. This button was conveniently labled “Wireless”. James pushed it and the wireless internet came to life. Viola!
So how does this mean that Mac users are trying to take over the world?
Why would anyone have a “Wireless” button? Why not just right-click and hit “Enable”?
Why?! Because Macs don’t have a right-click!!! And Macs are supposed to be easy. Well, what’s easier than a “Wireless” button?
James and J relayed to me that they think Mac addicts infiltrated the HP assembly and desing plants, changed the designs to make the design “easier” (but really harder), thus pushing people to think more and more like Mac users. This would eventually create Mac users all over the world, pushing PCs underground.
Is that what really happened? Did Mac users really get into HP? I guess you’ll have to decide.
