Ok, so you all have a view of what I have been slowly (but surely) working on over the last few weeks. And Oh, I know that there are hundreds of errors in my html, and the fact that Internet Explorer does not want to display everything correctly. So if you are browsing the site and catch an error, or anything that does not show up correctly, please leave a comment. Over the next few days I should have all the glitches fixed.

Dan Brown wonderfully created his own "sphere of influence" through his writing of The Da Vinci Code, mostly affecting Christians, but also non-Christians alike. Dan Brown masterfully creates an edge-of-your-seat thriller, by using an international murder mystery, and the entire base of Western Theology, along with secret societies, and hidden documents that could destroy the base of modern Christianity. Dan Brown fused all of these together in his elucide form of writing that not only causes the reader think and predict the possible pathways towards the ending, but he also challenges the reader to look at their own faith and to test it along the way. He uses the murder of a high profile French citizen as the prop for the story, who has a hidden secret, much like the ones in the cryptographs that he used to play with his granddaughter Sophie Neveu. Moments before the man's death he leaves gruesome clues at the scene, that he knows that his granddaughter Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon; a famed symbologist, could solve. The two soon become suspects in the case as they work together to try and figure out what the clues mean . . . Taking paths to find out the truth in the characters lives and the truth for the world.
Although the book does probe some elucide and pure heretical theories, towards the origin of the Bible and the Truth behind it. It poses some quite intriguing thoughts about the subject though. My thoughts on this was, it does take some "serious shots at our faith" but if we can not stand up to a book that pushes us to truly investigate what we believe, how to can we expect to stand up to other people when they try to push us in the same way? Reading this book really makes me examine my faith and weed out the truth from superstition...

Ok, I lied, the redesign wont be up for a few more days, I am having difficulties with the browser encryptions and junk...

Website down for updates.... should be back online by Sunday Febrary 20th 2005, thank you for your patience....

So, I jumped on the bandwagon and actually didn't fall off this time! In my recent blog surfing expenditures, I have noticed that many people have lists on their site that they referred to as "my 100 things" which where in all cases, just random information about ones life and family. I was really bored this weekend and decided to make a list of my very own....
My 100 things
1. I was born in Florida.
2. I was an Air Force brat.
3. I have lived in 7 houses, in 9 cities, 4 states, and 2 countries.
4. I have had more concussions than I can remember…. Maybe those two are related??
5. I knew how to shoot both a gun and a bow before I was 12.
6. I am nocturnal.
7. You can count the number of students in my graduating class with 2 hands.
8. I was never able to pick a favorite actor, so I have 3; Johnny Deep, Orlando Bloom, and Brad Pitt.
9. I have winter allergies.
10. People think that I can sing, they’re usually wrong. But that doesn’t stop me from turning up the tunes and belting it.
11. I am currently trying to break an addiction to Mountain Dew.
12. I am deathly afraid of spiders.
13. And snakes too!
14. Frosting on cakes makes me sick.
15. I have had stitches in my head 3 times before I was 5.
16. Twice were because of a binine skin melanoma on my forehead.
17. My favorite snack is chocolate chip cookie dough…
18. I love to read.
19. When I was in my early teens I had 4 notebooks filled front to back with details on items that I had watched being recovered from the Titanic and all of the other stuff about it, most of this information was acquired through hours of the History and Discovery channels… I brought these notebooks with me to the exhibit and got a lot of strange looks about it.
20. I am Swedish and German, predestined to have blonde and blue eyed… I changed that.
21. I used to watch Pacific Blue everyday after school, along with Saved by the Bell, and Full House.
22. When I was in elementary school I played the piano but I quit to play the flute, although my lessons never came through and the flute is still unused.
23. I have danced and done gymnastics for atleast 6 years of my life.
24. I am an organizational geek/clean freak… but I am also lazy; the two do not get along very often.
25. I would rather climb a rock face than sit in a classroom.
26. My favorite food is anything Italian.
27. I hate fish.
28. I have an addiction to History… especially European, and early American Colonies.
29. I have traveled to 4 different continents.
30. My favorite place is Tallinn, Estonia (think 17th century).
31. I love dogs, they’re my best friends.
32. I love to cook.
33. I have had my life threatened 3 times.
34. I have been in 2 Disney movies, Going to the mat, and Halloweentown 3.
35. I am addicted to text messaging, so don’t get my cell number.
36. I am very accident and injury prone.
37. My digital camera goes everywhere with me.
38. I am a semi-conservative republican.
39. My dreams often come true.
40. I got stuck in the 90’s and still think that Backstreet Boys are cool.
41. My favorite author is Shakespeare… I can’t understand why people think that he is a hard read.
42. I like most women have already chosen the names of my future children, and have back up names in case any of my friends steal them.
43. I am afraid of needles.
44. I have 32 pairs of shoes, and counting.
45. I can’t draw, or even sketch for that matter.
46. It’s a miracle if I get more than 5½ hours of sleep a night; unless it’s Saturday.
47. I HATE the restaurant, Sonic.
48. I was raised in a born again Christian home and still follow that adamantly.
49. I go to church on both Saturday night and Sunday mornings.
50. My favorite scent is Coconut.
51. American Eagle gains atleast half of my income.
52. The rest goes to Starbucks and Barnes and Noble.
53. I aspire to one day be a detective or work for the government.
54. I have never broken a bone.
55. I am a total Internet junkie.
56. I am a Leo.
57. When I was 8 I made up my own dream profession; A Pediatric Paramedic Orthopedic Surgeon… I think I might have watched a bit too much ER.
58. My favorite number is 7.
59. I have 87 people on my IM list, all of whom I talk to regularly.
60. 9 of whom live in a different country, and all of which I have met previous to them landing on my IM list.
61. I have written 2 songs, both of which, I stole the chords from existing songs to compose.
62. I have taken 1st place in speech twice.
63. Not to brag, but I am an excellent Archer.
64. I hate piggish eaters… my biggest pet peeve.
65. I really want to learn how to play the drums.
66. I have a dream to backpack across part of Europe with my brother someday.
67. Who lives in Moscow, Russia btw… he’s a teacher of English at English First and the Moscow School of Economics.
68. I also have an older sister who is studying Biotechnology.
69. My first celebrity crush was on Tom Cruise.
70. I can quote the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings.
71. I have met Andy Serkis (the voice of gollum), and was in a movie with Debbie Reynolds, she is a funny lady.
72. I love cryptographs, the complexity amuses me.
73. I am lazy.
74. If I could chose a decade other than the 00’s I would chose the 20’s.
75. I do my homework, just usually on the morning it is due.
76. I compulsively check my email, sadly all the cool people never email me, but I still check it anyway.
77. I usually only eat 2 meals a day, but I snack terribly…. Another bad habit that will catch up with me someday… hopefully not soon.
78. I love running.
79. I have an addiction to tanning.
80. I hate ignorant people.
81. I kill at Monopoly.
82. I tend to use sarcasm as a defense.
83. I hate most game shows, other than Jeopardy and Road Rules-Real World Extreme Challenge.
84. Many people take me for a snob.
85. But really I’m just insecure, so I rarely let my guard down.
86. I have an addiction to spy and cop shows (Alias, CSI, Without A Trace).
87. I have a bad habit of chewing on pens.
88. At times I can be quite obsessive-compulsive.
89. I hate people who try to prove how “cool” they are by bringing others down… it only proves how big of a jerk they are. 90. My favorite flower is Jasmine.
91. I support George W. Bush as President.
92. I hate is when people don’t stand up for themselves, then they turn around and complain about it.
93. My cousins are on the U.S. Olympic Ski Jumping team.
94. When I was 12 I was asked to come work at Colonial Williamsburg, but I had to decline considering I lived in Minnesota at the time.
95. Did I mention that I am a total history geek?
96. My mom is glad that my hair is the most rebellious part of me… it has changed to many times to count… nearly every 2 months.
97. I plan to live in either Paris or London, someday.
98. I have known my two best friends since third grade… Shout out to Rosa and Alyssa, I love you two!!!
99. They have better Canadian accents then my friends from Vancouver. (They live in Minnesota.)
100. It is still my aspiration to be an Archeologist.
Man, that was fun…

Does anybody want Gmail? I have recently acquired 50 invites to Gmail... If you would like one either email me or leave me a comment with your current email address.

The XXIX Superbowl game has ended, the Jacksonville stadium is closed, the fans have all gone home and tucked themselves into bed. And the nuisance of a team, New England Patriots are on a plane with their families to Disneyworld. Once again the New England has brought one more deserving team to shame, first the Pittsburgh Steelers, and now the Philadelphia Eagles. The game ended with:

Patriots 24
Eagles 21

Apparently, the Eagles team leaders; Donovan McNabb, Brian Westbrook, Terrell Owens, were not quite tough enough to take on the Patriots leaders; Tom Brady, Corey Dillon, Deion Branch. The Eagles fought it out from their tie that began in the beginning of the second quarter with seven, then in the third it hit at fourteen, and lasted until about halfway through the fourth when the Patriots charged in and took up ten points whereas the Eagles were only able to pull off seven more points still leaving them three points in below the tie. Now as long as next year, any one of the following makes it into the next "bowl" I will be very happy: Green Bay Packers (Go Cheeseheads!!!), Minnesota Vikings, or the Denver Boncos.

Isn't it sad that the Islamic terrorist groups now have to rely on G.I. Joes to get what they want? Either the U.S. troops are getting better at not getting captured or these lunatics are just getting sloppy. All of the military troops in Baghdad were able to report in that all of their soldiers were accounted for. At least the company that makes these action figures were able to spot their own work, and call the insurgents on there bluff.

Apple's rival companies, Napster and F.Y.E., are in the process of making a "Portable Music Rental Service", Napster plans o turn up the heat on Apple with a $30 million advertising campaign debuting during Sunday's Super Bowl to promote a relaunch of its portable subscription service, dubbed Napster To Go.

How music fans answer that question in coming months will help determine the viability of a new slate of online music services that offer to fill portable music players with an unlimited number of songs for a monthly fee.

How they market these devices will be a crucial part to there survival, or downfall, they need to be able to persuade consumers that are accustomed to buying CDs, or digital tracks purchased via the internet to switch to paying a monthly fee and acquiring an unlimited amount of songs for there rental time period. After there rental period is up, the device automatically dumps all of the songs on the hard drive and the ones on there computer to be sure that the songs are not used anymore.

The problem is that in the current state of the market, vendors at best have been offering technical equivalents of the iPod, and the iPod itself has transcended from a consumer electronics item to cultural icon.

The only companies providing this service is Napster and F.Y.E. who's monthly subscriptions are both priced at $14.95... Click here to read the full story