Ok, so I'm still playing around with Blogger and my software, to see what I can do. Blogger is web based, so software shouldn't be an issue, except that I am toying a lot these days with a browser called Firefox. I had been using Explorer for a long time previously but a week or so ago I started to play with it to see if I could make browsing my bookmarks easier. I had some success but no home run. A peek at Download.com's browser section lead me to Firefox and it was a go almost from the beginning. Firefox is smart, stripped down and clean. It uses tabs intelligently, unlike Netscape, which in which I discovered three different places to conduct a search from. Firefox has one search box and you can easily add as many search engines to it as you like, including Google, Google Images, Amazon books, Amazon DVD's, Wikkipedia, and... well. You get the idea. I was beginning to get hooked.
Another big (BIG)! point in Firefox's favour was the Bug Me Not extension, which when installed will give you a name and password for virtually any of those websites that require registration. That would be, well, most everything these days. Heck, the Saskatoon Daily Dog has a registration racket going these days.
Now, returning to the subject of Blogger, I wanted to see if there was a Firefox extension that would simulate the ease of the Googlebar's "blog this" button. Sure enough, with one tiny download, I'm doing this entry via Firefox's "blog this." It works via a right click instead of a button, but otherwise seems the same. Whoo-oo, as Homer might say.
Well, there will be a lot more to learn, I'm sure. So I will just say hello to some of the people who might see these pages in the next few days... A big "Hi!" to my wife Rebecca, to my co-workers Carole and Iris (how's Maple Ridge?), to my mother in law Inga, and to an old friend and co-worker I bumped into a few weeks ago, on my route or all places... Hi Yvonne!
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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