February 29, 2004
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King sweeps Oscars
No suprise, at all.
(CNN) — “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” set an Oscar record by sweeping all 11 awards for which it had been nominated, including best picture of the year.
The record for a film winning all its nominations was nine, set by “Gigi” (1958) and “The Last Emperor” (1988). “Rings” tied both “Ben-Hur” (1959) and “Titanic” (1997) with its 11 awards, the record for most Oscars in a single year. “Rings” is also the first fantasy film to win the top award.
Aside from best picture, the awards “Return of the King” won were: director (Peter Jackson), adapted screenplay (Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens), song (“Into the West”), score (Howard Shore), visual effects, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound mixing and film editing.
Jackson paid tribute to the government and people of his native New Zealand, a country that had been the subject of ribbing from host Billy Crystal as a “Rings” sweep became possible.
[ Full Story @ CNN ]
Source: CNN © 2004 Cable News Network
Bible Pathway #060 - February 29 - Numbers 36
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 36
Highlights: Laws concerning female inheritance within their patriarchal tribe
February 28, 2004
Bible Pathway #059 - February 28 - Numbers 34-35
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 34-35
Highlights: Dividing the land of Canaan — Inheritance of the Levites
February 27, 2004
Bible Pathway #058 - February 27 - Numbers 32-33
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 32-33
Highlights: Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh settle east of the Jordan — A summary of Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness
February 26, 2004
Rebuilding Movable Type via Perl Script - Part II
An even stronger MT-rebuild script resides at tima thinking outloud
Heralded as “The rebuild script to end all rebuild scripts”, Tima writes “I’ve released mt-rebuild, a utility script for rebuilding a MovableType template from the command-line as opposed to the standard MT browser interface.”
Rebuilding Movable Type via Perl Script
Finally, I have started to take some time to get under the hood of Six Apart’s Movable Type.
My first objective was to automate a rebuild of the weblog via PERL, however, it’s already been done. Erik’s Weblog offered a complete implementation of this task last year.
I shall not reinvent the wheel.
Bible Pathway #057 - February 26 - Numbers 30-31
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 30-31
Highlights: Law concerning vows — Midianites conquered — Division of booty — Officers and captains bring an offering to the Lord
February 25, 2004
Bible Pathway #056 - February 25 - Numbers 28-29
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 28-29
Highlights: The daily and weekly offerings (sacrifices), Sabbath and monthly offerings , and the offerings at the appointed feasts
February 24, 2004
Bible Pathway #055 - February 24 - Numbers 26-27
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 26-27
Highlights: Second numbering (census) of the Israelites — Law of inheritance — Joshua to succeed Moses
February 23, 2004
Bible Pathway #054 - February 23 - Numbers 23-25
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 23-25
Highlights: Prophecies of Balaam — Israel sins — The plague stopped because of the intervention of Phinehas
February 22, 2004
Bible Pathway #053 - February 22 - Numbers 21-22
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 21-22
Highlights: Fiery serpents — Brass serpent — Israel defeats King Arad, Amorites, Moabites — Balaam hired to curse the Israelites
February 21, 2004
"The Passion of the Christ" Etiquette - Totem To Temple
Totem to Temple has crafted an excellent article that should be read by every church and every Christian planning to attend a showing of The Passion of the Christ.
To make the most of what has been touted as “perhaps the best outreach opportunity in 2000 years”, A Disturbing Trend I See About The Passion is a MUST read!
Yankee or Dixie Quiz
I just took the Yankee or Dixie Quiz and the results were not surprising in the least.
73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
Arkansas RULES!
Imitated from Walloworld
Bible Pathway #052 - February 21 - Numbers 19-20
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 19-20
Highlights: Red heifer sacrifice — Miriam’s death — Moses strikes the rock twice — Edom refuses Israel passage — Aaron’s death
February 20, 2004
Bible Pathway #051 - February 20 - Numbers 16-18
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 16-18
Highlights: Korah leads a rebellion against Moses and Aaron — Plague sent by God — Aaron’s rod — Duties for priests — The tithe offering
February 19, 2004
Bible Pathway #050 - February 19 - Numbers 14-15
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 14-15
Highlights: Moses interceded in prayer for the Israelites — Israel’s wasted life — Laws concerning offerings, sins, and the Sabbath
February 18, 2004
Bible Pathway #049 - February 18 - Numbers 12-13
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 12-13
Highlights: Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses — Miriam stricken with leprosy — Moses prays — 12 spies sent to Canaan — Their report
February 17, 2004
Bible Pathway #048 - February 17 - Numbers 10-11
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 10-11
Highlights: Two silver trumpets — The Israelites leave Sinai — Complaint of the people — The 70 elders chosen — The Lord sends a plague
February 16, 2004
Bible Pathway #047 - February 16 - Numbers 8-9
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 8-9
Highlights: Cleansing of the Levites — National Passover — The Lord’s guiding presence in the cloud and the fire over the Tabernacle
Bootable Live Windows on CD/DVD
Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD is just the ticket for Windows Admins who need to rescue PCs.
It’s funny, I was just having this conversation with a couple of Linux Admins at work, “I wonder if someone has created a Live CD/DVD for Windows that’s similar to the Knoppix Live CD for Linux?”
Lady and Gentlemen, BartPE is the answer….
February 15, 2004
Bible Pathway #046 - February 15 - Numbers 7
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 7
Highlights: The princes’ offerings for the dedication of the Tabernacle
Last weeks SiteMeter stats for "In The Faith"
Not too bad…
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February 14, 2004
Bible Pathway #045 - February 14 - Numbers 5-6
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 5-6
Highlights: Laws concerning cleansing, confession,restitution, and jealousy — The Nazarite vow
February 13, 2004
Bible Pathway #044 - February 13 - Numbers 3-4
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 3-4
Highlights: Census and duties of the Levites: the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Merarites — The redemption of the firstborn
on Screen Scraping to RSS feeds
While googling on the subject matter, I was led to the MSDN Academic Alliance’s treatment of the issue — Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool by Roy Osherove in October 2003. An interesting read for those who are deploying desktop and web applications using Microsoft’s .NET Techonology.
Obviously, I found the code interesting, but the most intriguing nugget in the article, was a Regex tool that that Roy Osherove has developed based on the MS .Net Framework.
Aptly named The Regulator, this is one of the best of breed regular expression utilities that I have seen.
UPDATE: I am not alone in the quest for RSS Scraping. The top link returned from searching Google for RSS Scraper is the weblog of Guy Bjerke. Mr. Bjerke has posted an article that is of interest to Radio UserLand subscribers in that he has tried Stapler and is now using the beta web app, myRSS
February 12, 2004
Bible Pathway #043 - February 12 - Numbers 1-2
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Numbers 1-2
Highlights: First numbering (census) of the Israelites for military purposes and encampment location of each tribe in relation to the Tabernacle
February 11, 2004
Comcast launches hostile bid for Disney worth $54.1-billion
The Globe and Mail reports that Comcast, in its quest for World Domination, WANTS Disney…
Comcast Corp. Wednesday launched a hostile all-stock bid to buy Walt Disney Co. for about $54.1-billion (U.S.) in stock, touting the proposal as a chance to create a “unique” world-leading entertainment and communications company with an unparalleled distribution platform.
The proposal — which would see Philadelphia-based Comcast exchange 0.78 of a Comcast class A share for each Disney share — comes just days after Disney’s top executive rebuffed suggestions to that the two enter merger talks.
Bible Pathway #042 - February 11 - Leviticus 26-27
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 26-27
Highlights: Blessings for obedience — Judgment for disobedience — Redeeming persons and property — Tithes shall be holy to the Lord
February 10, 2004
Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy Set for Sept. DVD Bow
Just in time for my 34th birthday on September 25th, Lucas plans to the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. Reuters reports:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Star Wars Trilogy,” one of the most-requested DVD episodic film franchises, is expected to be released as a four-disc DVD box set Sept. 21.
A global rollout on DVD is expected within days of the domestic release, according to Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The trilogy, featuring the classic franchise films “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” will be released on three DVD discs, with a fourth disc likely to hold a newly made documentary about the “Star Wars” franchise and never-before-seen footage, among several other bonus materials, said Jim Ward, Lucasfilm’s vp marketing and distribution and the DVD trilogy’s executive producer.
Bring it on, George… Bring it on.
Bible Pathway #041 - February 10 - Leviticus 24-25
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 24-25
Highlights: The Tabernacle, Candlestick, Showbread — Blasphemy — Year of jubilee — Laws concerning redemption of property and the poor
February 09, 2004
Reading through the Blogdom
Trying to read through the Blogdom of God on a daily basis is tricky.
My BlogLines aggregator has helped quite a bit on most of the sites, however, I do not find the NewsApp Aggregator at Server.com very useful for the task.
I am considering parsing that page an creating a standard RSS 2.0 file from it.
Possibly…
Bible Pathway #040 - February 9 - Leviticus 22-23
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 22-23
Highlights: Death penalty for defiled priests who eat holy things — Acceptable offerings — Sabbath, Passover, feasts, and other requirements
February 08, 2004
Which Star Wars Character Am I?
 If I were a Star Wars character, I would be: Qui-Gon Jinn.
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Imitated from Reverend Mike’s House of Homiletic Hash
Bible Pathway #039 - February 8 - Leviticus 19-21
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 19-21
Highlights: Laws of holiness and justice for the people and priests — Penalties for idolatry and immorality — Laws regarding defilement of priests
February 07, 2004
Lycos: Janet boob stunt most popular Internet search ever
Still don’t believe that mankind is totally depraved? Ms. Jackson’s Super Bowl XXXVIII Half Time show is possibly THE most searched event in the history of the Internet according to Lycos. We want our carnal pleasures and boy do we want them now!
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) — Janet Jackson’s near-baring of her breast at the Super Bowl might be the most searched event in the history of the Internet, search site Lycos said.
Meanwhile, a paid streaker was a success for the dot-com company he advertised for, and movie studios earned big spikes in traffic for films they pitched.
Lycos said that Jackson and searches related to the Super Bowl halftime show the day after the big game amounted to 80 times more searches than did the usual No. 1 celebrity search, Britney Spears. In fact, Jackson and halftime searches that day outscored even the largest one-day total for terrorist-related searches on and after September 11, 2001.
Source: CNN © 2004 Cable News Network LP, LLLP.
Bible Pathway #038 - February 7 - Leviticus 16-18
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 16-18
Highlights: Day of Atonement — The scapegoat — The eating of blood forbidden — Civil and religious laws — Immorality forbidden
February 06, 2004
Bible Pathway #037 - February 6 - Leviticus 14-15
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 14-15
Highlights: Purification after having skin diseases — Signs of leprosy — Uncleanness of men and women — Sacrifice for cleansing from defilements
February 05, 2004
Bible Pathway #036 - February 5 - Leviticus 11-13
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 11-13
Highlights: Health and dietary laws — The cleansing (purification) of women after childbirth — Signs and laws concerning leprosy
February 04, 2004
I Googled "Blogdom of God"
And here are my results…. (This is for my reference, feel free to move along to something interesting)
—— Blogdom of God newly updated
—— Blogdom of God Alliance Blog: Welcome to the Blogdom of God
Patriot Paradox - Blogdom of God Archives
—— Ideas for the Blogdom of God
Bible Pathway #035 - February 4 - Leviticus 9-10
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 9-10
Highlights: First offerings of Aaron — Offerings for the people — Sin and deaths of Nadab and Abihu — Restrictions for the priesthood
February 03, 2004
Dean Calls FCC Probe of Breast Incident 'Silly'
Somehow I am not at all surpised that Dr. Dean would take this position on the Jackson/Timberlake Super Bowl Incident:
Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as “silly” a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson’s bodice was ripped to expose her right breast.
“I find that to be a bit of a flap about nothing,” the former Vermont governor said. “I’m probably affected in some ways by the fact that I’m a doctor, so it’s not exactly an unusual phenomenon for me.”
As a Presidential hopeful, it would behoove Dr. Dean to look beyond his own self-serving interests and embrace what matters to the country.
Could he right while a noisy faction of 140 million viewers are sounding off in outrage? Let’s say that only 10% of the viewers took offense to the R-rated display during the “family-friendly” television hours, the voice of the offended equates to 14 million people.
Also note that Janet apologizes
“The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals,” Jackson said in a statement.
“MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended — including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.”
and slightly contradicts Justin Timberlake’s near immediate apology:
“I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl,” he said. “It was not intentional and is regrettable.”
Ms. Jackson seems to validate the conspiracy theorists’ notion that the stunt was secretly planned. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell told CNN that he was “not convinced the incident was an accident”
Even the White House has issued a statement:
“Our view is that it’s important for families to be able to expect a high standard when it comes to programming,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
FCC Chairman Powell ordered the investigation on the Monday following the game and adamantly seeks to penalize the involved parties.
Powell said he was watching the game Sunday evening with his two children and found the incident “outrageous.”
“I knew immediately it would cause great outrage among the American people, which it did,” he said, citing “thousands” of complaints received by Monday morning. “We have a very angry public on our hands.”
Powell said MTV and the CBS network’s more than 200 affiliates and company-owned stations could be fined $27,500 apiece.
“I think it’s all of their problem,” he said. “The law allows you to reach many of the different parties.” He said he would like to see the enforcement penalties strengthened to 10 times their current amount.
Maybe Dean’s right and we need to view the body a just pure anatomy, forget about all this “silly” decency/morality stuff, and go somewhere and yell “Yeeeeaaaahhh!”
…Whatever…
(After this statement are there any Dean supporters left in the room?)
Bible Pathway #034 - February 3 - Leviticus 7-8
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 7-8
Highlights: Regulations concerning offerings — Consecration of Aaron and his sons for the priesthood, and the priests’ offerings
February 02, 2004
Bible Pathway #033 - February 2 - Leviticus 4-6
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 4-6
Highlights: Sin offering — Trespass offering — Further directions concerning burned offerings, meat offerings, and sin offerings
February 01, 2004
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Show Promises 'Shocking Moments'... and Fulfulls..
On January 28th, MTV.com ran this article: Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl Show Promises ‘Shocking Moments’.
At Super Bowl XXXVIII, Ms. Jackson did just that and now CBS apologizes for Janet Jackson’s breast-baring end to halftime show
Just in case you did not know…
At the song’s finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson’s leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast. The final lyric of the song goes, “Going to have you naked by the end of this song.”
I was shocked while watching the show with my wife and two girls. Montina and I knew that it was planned. There is indeed truth in advertising in this case, she promised to shock us and boy-howdy, we were shocked and modesty takes another jab to the face.
My spirit grieves for America and my prayer is from Phillipians 1:10-11 (NLT)
For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until Christ returns. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation – those good things that are produced in your life by Jesus Christ – for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
Kevin McCullough asks this question at his weblog @ Crosswalk.com :
“Should Janet and Justin be prosecuted for public indecency?”
Engineering geek names son version 2.0
And now for something a little different. Via CNN.com, “ - Engineering geek names son version 2.0”
Yep…
Bible Pathway #032 - February 1 - Leviticus 1-3
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Leviticus 1-3
Highlights: Burned offering — Meat (meal, grain) offering — Peace offering