July, 2006

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  A brief lesson in shadows

• In my email box just now I noticed a google ad off to the side advertising the message, “Get paid to blog”. I’m always on guard with things like this because I know there are people out there who would think something like this was a very good deal. And for some, maybe it [...]

  Blogging Scheme

• Do you pray for your clients? I don’t – always. Every now and then I find my mind drifting off to other projects and I remember clients who haven’t called on me in awhile. Just when I think to call them, I sometimes find God again and decide pray for them first. I’m rarely so [...]

  God works

• Here’s a quick tip before I go to bed. If you want to track who’s storing a page from your site in their bookmarks, here are a couple of ways to do that.

  Inma.gnolia, simply use this rss feed, changing the domain to your own. http://ma.gnolia.com/rss/full/terms/nataliejost.com

  Fordel.icio.us go to “del.icio.us/url](http://del.icio.us/url/ and search for your domain. Then at [...]

  Quick Tip: Tracking who links to you

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  Patterns and textures in color

• When I was a kid and still had dreams of being a rock star, I used to imagine being interviewed by “Kurt Loder](http://www.mtv.com/news/correspondents/loder/ who would ask me who my biggest musical influence was. I’d pretend to hem and haw a sec and then oh-so-poetically droll out the name of some member of Fleetwood Mac [...]

  Rock star influence

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  Play Big

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  My favorite design tool

• This is my list of “Icon Buffet](http://www.iconbuffet.com/ icons which I have or need. The icons I have to give are here on this list, the ones I can’t give anymore are crossed out, but as of right now I have at least one delivery remaining on all of them (number remaining in parentheses)!

  Send icons or [...]

  Icon Buffet Trade

• God doesn’t hate, but He does have righteous judgment, which though similar in consequence, are really very different. I was disturbed (not surprised) by a post by my friend, Randy Thomas in which he describes “a recent stint on a radio talk show](http://www.randythomas.org/etc/2006/07/rebuking_the_re.html. He speaks calmly and even lovingly of a man who is in [...]

  The persecution of sinners

• My mom, The Beautiful Atheist, sent me this in my email this morning and I couldn’t help myself. I laughed. And then I realized why I’ve never bought into any one denomination – they’re all nuts! :)

  How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?

  1. Charismatic:*1* Hands are already in the air. 2. [...]

  A dozen reasons I will always be non-denominational