More Free Templates

I ran across another site for free Blogger templates today.  There are quite a few really nice ones here, so if you're thinking it's time for a change, you might want to check out Templates Block.  The templates are designed to be easy to install and customize, and include free support if you have any problems.

Linking with Images

I participate in a couple memes each week, most of the time anyway.  Each week, the host posts a link list, and we all sign in.  Usually you just leave your name and url, but I recently came across inlinkz, a free linking tool that includes thumbnail images.  Instead of just leaving a text link, participants are able to choose an image from the page they are linking to.  I thought it was really cool - especially for photo memes.

Today I visited Linky Tools and saw that they have a new thumbnail Linky that allows the same thing.  Linky Tools actually has a whole list of Linky types to choose from:

• Basic Linky: This is the basic MckLinky List... people leave a title and link it to their blog. Use it for any reason you can dream up. 
• Thumbnail Linky: A thumbnail linky has a collection of image thumbnails instead of a list of text titles and links. Lots of fun! Give it a try 
• Blog Hop Linky: A Blog Hop is a group of bloggers who display the SAME LIST OF LINKS on their blogs, usually with some sort of theme or topic. 
• Picture Caption Linky: 1) Invite readers to leave suggested picture captions, then 2) rank them or choose winners...  
• Contest Entry Linky: Run a contest or some sort of giveaway on your blog. 1) Readers enter their content submissions as per your instructions then 2) you choose winners OR 1st Place, 2nd Place, etc.
• Prayer Request Linky: Have your readers leave their prayer request and link. 
• Answer Linky: Ask your readers a question and let them leave their answer and a link to their blog or email. 
• Question Linky: Have your readers leave their questions for you and a link to their blog or email. 
• Ideas Linky: 1) Ask readers to help you come up with new ideas for a project, event or topic; then 2) rank them or choose winners. 
• Top X Linky: Create Top 10, Top 5 or Top 3 list (from 1-10). 1) Ask readers for their entries for a Top X List then 2) choose and rank the winning entries.  
• Create A Story Linky: Fun! Start a story in your blog post and invite your blog readers to help "write it" by adding on to the end of the story (the list). Use a theme or plot, or just start one and see what happens.

I'm thinking I need to play with some of these - maybe that Ideas Linky, asking for post ideas or something.

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Solar Calendar Proves Biblical Sabbath Part 3

Friday Night, May 21, 2010 
Don Roth continues his presentation
Location:  D&P Productions, Hartford, WI
Time:  dinner @ 7pm and Bible Study @ 8pm

Mr. Roth appreciates input and discussion on what he is presenting.  There is a lot of math involved and many charts, which are available HERE.

• Join us in person - D&P Productions (327 Summit St. - Hartford, WI)
• Join us online - LIVE cybercast and Discussion in the embedded chatroom.

Changing Everything

We had a LiveJournal, which we usually forgot to update.  Then we started using Texty.com for announcements, and that seemed to work really well - except there was no ongoing record, just the current announcement.  However, now that I'm trying to redesign the site, I'm having trouble getting things to work.  I thought putting an RSS widget on the page would work, if we started using our LiveJournal for News & Updates like we're supposed to.  However, I'm not liking the way you get hit with ads nowadays, and I really don't want to do that to people, so trying Blogger...

Email Stripper

Do you hate all those extra ">" and other formatting characters that show up when you forward emails?  I do, and I used to take the time to delete them, but that is such a pain.  And takes way more time than I really want to take.  That's why I love the free Email Stripper from PaperCut.  All you have to do is paste the messy email into the program and click the "Strip It!" button, and it cleans that email right up. 

Then simply copy the cleaned email and paste it into a new email message.  How cool is that?

Getting Started in Genealogy - Free Download

I've never really gotten into it, but I know a lot of people enjoy looking into their genealogy and family history.  The Internet makes it a lot easier than it used to be, but it's still hard to know where to start and where to look.  I got an email today offering this free e-book download - Getting Started in Genealogy Online - and thought others might be interested in it.

It's 67 pages of basic information to help you get started tracing your family tree online.

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Solar Calendar Proves Biblical Sabbath

Join us, in person or on line, for the next 3 Friday nights, May 7, 14 and 21 at 8pm as Don Roth presents a three part series on his calendar calculation: SOLAR CALENDAR PROVES BIBLICAL SABBATHS, that looks at how to place events in the Bible from a unique view point. Instead of trying to establish events in the Bible from now and ...go backwards as most historians do, he has used the accounts of the Bible and started from zero and counted forwards using the examples, text and events of the scriptures. Don Roth will present the charts and equations he has come up with and we encourage you to join in, and feedback is very much encouraged. We look forward to having you join us for this presentation and discussion

A quote from his paper:

“It would add a great measure of certainty about this calendar if a solar calendar were constructed by seven day Sabbaths, beginning with the creation week, showing that its Sabbaths coincide with the Hebrew Calculated Calendar (HCC) and the biblical accounts of creation, the flood and its Sabbaths in Gen. 7, the Sabbaths of Ex. 16 and the Passover of Josh. 5:10-12. This would establish a solid foundation to project dates through the entire bible and confirm the validity of the HCC.

Through further study of the solar calendar, beginning with the creation year, it will be shown that the progression of the seven day week through the solar years will match the Sabbaths of Genesis 7 and 8 and Exodus 16. The HCC, when brought forward by its nineteen year cycles will also match these Sabbaths, thus adding the mathematical proof that the HCC is the calendar that God employed in the accounts of the bible; thus making it the only usable calendar for God’s people.”

Don has based his calculation on the Hebrew Calculated Calendar (HCC) and his own Seven Day Solar calendar. The HCC can be a hot topic in calendar discussions so I would like to say that whether you use the HCC, the Observed Calendar, First Crescent, the conjunction or the Abib or the various versions of establishing the Holy Days, they all come together/ reconcile every 19 years so it may be a moot point in what he has to offer.

(on a personal note: What Don has to offer is so very interesting and innovative, I don’t want his presentation derailed because of his firm belief in the HCC being used from the beginning. Give him a chance to introduce his charts and tables and get the gist of what he is presenting and then determine if the postponements make a difference to the outcome.)

He definitely wants input and discussion on what he is presenting, there is a lot of math involved and many charts, which will be available on line.

• Join us in person - D&P Productions (327 Summit St. - Hartford, WI)
• Join us online - LIVE cybercast and discussion in the embedded chatroom.