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I appreciated this reflection from Dave on the stock market today:
 Thoughts about the stock market. I rarely make predictions, at least in public. Last November I had all my liquid assets in stocks, and I sold them, turning them into cash, in US dollars, locking in some substantial losses. At first, it was not a good decision, but in the last few weeks I've come to appreciate it. I saved a lot of money. Today I had a flash that the market is at or near its bottom now. I don't think it's going to go up very quickly, but I think the precipitous fall is over. We've factored in the lack of trust of management of companies. Greenspan's comments, referenced below, really made a difference to me. From this point we'll get much better information about how the companies are doing. Stock options are over. Salaries and benefits matter. Transparent management. Time to ride the Cluetrain, for real. Companies that make identifiable products for real people that they communicate with. And responsibility among shareholders and customers and journalists, as well. [Scripting News]
It makes sense, and I hope he's right about all of it.
6:27:09 PM 
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My Balcony People is an old-style Web page cluster with some people who have influenced me. I'm fascinated with figuring out how to take advantage of the Weblog as it is provided for in Radio: With its Categories, I can have a "People" page, where I can expound about the ways different people have affected me. I still wish we had a way to do subcategories, or that I could find such an animal. Anyway, look at these people, and come back and comment. It's neat to be able to swap stories about how someone has changed your life, or how they have influenced you from afar.
The People section will host these links
5:31:23 PM
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Before I go home, I feel the need to be theoblogical..........I've been posting some "openers" to some of my Categories that I cleaned up and re-did last night , mainly so the "Comments" would start working again, which they did. The point is, is to actaully GET some comments. Somebody I would not have known had they not told me they posted, did post to one of my blogs yesterday, and I was thrilled. The theoblogical thing here is that this is all creating a new way of interacting, because there's a framewrork of sorts (Stream of Consciousness; journal type entries, Direct commentary on some particular news item, or "Stories", any of which point to other Weblogs, sometimes other non-weblog-but-still-Web items, and then there's News Aggregation that lets us all subscribe to updates to each other's blogs, which is really cool, and then there's "Comments", which isn't really all that active in most places I've seen use it....but I would want to keep it there.
It's the end of the day, and I should have left my desk and headed home by now, and I'll probably be back right at it when I get home about 45 minutes from now (long LONG commute, but I don't mind it so much anymore now that the roads have been improved in this Nashville area)
5:14:44 PM
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I plan on "Featuring" some People, along with "New Ones" I've added (or realized were always a part of the club) once every week at a minimum.
Church of the Saviour (nmc*)in Washington, DC is way up there on any given day, for it is through their vision, most fully dispelled to me through the writings of the late Elizabeth O'Connor, that I most fully grasped (or is it "glimpsed") the .........what is a brief but sufficient word?.........the Christian life; the call of the divine; the Kingdom of God; MY calling. This whole thing of the Call to Commitment (the title of O'Connor's first book); that God has a community for us in whom we find the support, energy, and legitimization of our calling.
(nmc*)- I have all this stuff I wrote about lots of things I will be saying again now that I am weblogging rather than plain ol html and stuff, so my links to these, when I remember to do so, will have a (nmc) after them, to indicate that it's some of my old stuff, but I will usually be linking to it because I am commenting on it again and re-writing and re-remembering.
6:40:17 AM
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I am a Web developer for a Religious Publisher. But don't let that scare you off (if things like that scare you), because I am not your typical religious person (whatever that is). I don't get offended by four letter words (since that would be VERY hypocritical), and I don't subscribe to a good portion of a lot of what you hear many Christians in the Media screaming about.
What I do like to explore and talk about is web development stuff. While I have a lot of ideas about how religious publishing and Web Development meet and relate to each other, that is something I will explore in the other (like Theoblogical) categories. Web Development is focused on the tools and my discoveries, problems, and hopefully, solutions.
The link to "Web Development" will lead you straight in to my frequent blogs on what I'm lookuing for, working on, and what I have found.
6:35:44 AM
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