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I've been thinking about spiritual matters recently, enough that a bubble of my thoughts has reached the surface. I'm prompted in part by commercial that talks about people's encounters with "angels", implying that people have encounters with these super-natural beings. My thoughts today are not about the super-natural angels, it is about the flesh and blood variety. My belief is that people can be angels too. To back up my claim, I'm going to cite some examples. They are not in chronological or any order. Yanling Li: when I was in China, I got so ill from something I ate that I was unable to keep warm in a tub of hot water. Yanling forced me to walk to a clinic and arranged medical treatment. By the time I got to the clinic, I could not stand up. Because she insisted on my getting medical treatment, I am alive today. She repeated this favor for me two more times on subsequent trips. I also credit her with revealing the truth about an evil person in whom I had placed great trust. She rescued me from more years of mental and emotional slavery. She is an Angel. Tom Rinella: He is a computer expert who helped me set up this site. Recently the FindItByMe.com was down for two days while I was reduced to technical impotence by something I had done to the site. I called him in desperation, and he came through and solved the problem to which I had surrendered. He was humble as always. He is an Angel. Carol Guttman: She offered me financial assistance and support while few... read more

Make sure you see the updates to Don Hambric's pages. We did a whole interview and shoot with him today. I think you'll find it fascinating!

 

The San Diego Union Tribune today reports that San Diego Unified School District is considering the introduction of advertising to their web sites and placement of commercial signage over the campuses as a countermeasure against budget cuts. Let me see if I get this straight: on every hour of television I can stomach, I have to watch close to thirty minutes of commercials. When I'm actually watching the show, popup commercials show at the bottom of the screen. On radio, over 50% of the broadcast is commercials. Web sites are struggling with more invasive ways of distracting me from the reason I went to a site in the first place. The only place I won't ever see a commercial interruption is when I'm watching an infomercial. Now they want to reward the inefficiency of district administrators by allowing the introduction of ad campaigns throughout the school's hallways and web sites. We spend lots of money on technology to cancel, avoid and eliminate commercials from our lives. The TIVO would never have been created, let alone the TV mute button, if we really welcomed relentless advertising. But now it is OK NO PROBLEM to bombard school kids who have no way of protecting themselves from this onslaught of advertising crafted by highly educated marketeers who spend millions of dollars discovering new ways to psychological penetrate the human mind. This is the kind of insidious thinking parents have to swat like a nasty house fly before it lands and spoils our children's minds. ... read more

I just saw an informative show on the History Channel about the Black Death, or bubonic plague. This little bacterium decimated 50% of the population from Central Asia to Europe from 1348 to 1350. The medical and disease vector components are fairly well documented, but of interest to me in a modern context was the desperate search for scapegoats, the need to blame someone for the tragic loss of life. In a population with no immunity to disease, there will be vast casualties and the need to assign blame. I wonder when and where there will be instances of people doing the exact opposite, trying to help others get better. The current economic crisis mirrors the plague in this respect. The banks are to blame, major corporations are to blame, Congress is to blame, past and present presidents are to blame. I wonder if it will ever be documented how many lives have been ruined by this crisis. I wonder how many people will never have credit again, get a loan again, participate in the financial community again. How many foreclosures have taken place, bankruptcies that stain our credit for seven long years? My question to the audience is, were you untouched by the crisis? Did you witness people around you slowly sink beneath the waves, confident in your luck, strident in self-satisfaction for being "safe". Did people around you ask for help? Did you refuse? Did you then go out and buy a new car? Were the people who lost everything lazy, stupid, or just unlucky? If they were just... read more

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On January 11th, ViaCron and I attended a meeting at the Fallbrook Art Association. Both of us had a chance encounter with a fascinating gentleman, Don Hambric, who is a member of this organization. Don presents himself as a soft-spoken but outgoing gentleman. This belies his depth of character and interest in the community. I'm going to blog about Don again because ViaCron and I are going to interview him sometime next week.

As for the Fallbrook Art Association meeting, this turned out to be a pleasant surprise for me. Fallbrook suffers from being geographically "islanded" because there is only one road in and one road out. In spite of this drawback, Fallbrook offers "islands" of culture and respite from any outward appearances to the contrary. You can link to their events and see what is coming up. I can't wait to do my interview of Don Hambric and let you know more about him.

mojoPortal is like a new neighborhood where there is more than one way in, and more than one way out. I really like the neighborhood. As a developer, I can see the amount of work and thought that has gone into this wonderful open source project. I hope I can help Joe out with this in ways to come I haven't thought of yet.

Thanks, Joe!