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Jacob — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:40:26 +0000

Lori claimed that I mentioned Sandy twice in this blog, but I can’t find where. But as soon as I hit the publish button, both Lori and Sandy will be mentioned, twice in this very post!

The truth is though, that I like to mention people who leave comments. Bruce, Justin and Britt tend to do a reasonable job sometimes at leaving comments.

Oh, and I just thought I would share my motivational plan which has had some limited success in certain markets. Maybe I should try this again. If any one catches me saying something bad about someone, that is, bad mouthing someone else, and they bring it to my attention… I’ll give them a dollar. This is to provide a financial dis-incentive against speaking bad of others. Because it really is something that I want to do better in.

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Jacob — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:41:20 +0000

I’ve never decided if the hamster wheel is a cruel or kind invention. On one hand, it keeps the otherwise inert hamster in shape. On the other, that hamster getting nowhere quickly. This LEGO elevator leaves me, again, floating in moral ambiguity. One one hand, it’s LEGO and a convenient elevator. On the other…well, just watch the clip.

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ScriptureCast highlights

Jacob — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:25:31 +0000

A few months ago I announced the release of a new website, ScriptureCast.net. Since then, things have taken off. The site has been featured in the ldsWebguy blog as well in the More Good Foundation blog. I’ve also received numerous emails praising the site for helping people study the scriptures.

The stats for the site have also been encouraging. In the last three weeks alone, there have been over 100,000 seconds of audio downloaded. There have also been a couple of hundred custom feeds created since the launch of the site (although I don’t have the stats indicating how many of those feeds are still active).

ScriptureCast.net currently can create feeds for The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and the October 2007 LDS General Conference.

My next plan for ScriptureCast.net is to provide the audio for “Teaching of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith”, and set up a feed that is synchronized with the standard lesson schedule.

You can read more about my progress at the ScriptureCast development blog.

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Introducing ScriptureCast.net

Jacob — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:50:48 +0000

Sometimes, some of us need a little help remembering to keep on top of our daily scripture study. To assist in this, I’ve built a new website at ScriptureCast.net . This site helps you to create custom podcast feeds of the scriptures to help you stay on top of your scripture reading.

What is a podcast feed? A podcast feed is a frequently updated file on the Internet which contains information about recently posted items. In the case of ScriptureCast.net, each item is a chapter or section of scripture. Each feed item contains both a summary, and a link to the full text of the chapter or section. A podcast feed item also contains a link to the sound file for the chapter or section. See the Wikipedia Podcast entry for more information.

How do I use a podcast? You need a podcast program, feed reader, or news aggregator. Not all feed readers are the same, and not all will let you download or listen to the audio. iTunes is a good program for subscribing to podcasts, especially since it allows you to listed to podcast items on your iPod music player. MyYahoo! is a web based service which can also help you access the full text or audio. If you don’t care about listening to the audio and you just want links to the full text, you can also subscribe to the feed using any number of regular news aggregators, including Google Reader.

Why would I want to podcast the scriptures when I can put them on my computer or iPod manually? Most podcast software keeps track of which items you’ve listened to. This makes it easy to keep track of what chapters you’ve read and which chapters you have yet to read. In addition, if you have a small portable music player, such as a 1GB iPod Nano, you may find it difficult to keep the scriptures and all your music on the player. In this case, the podcast software adds items to your player as they become available, and removes them from your player when you are done with them.

I have a question about ScriptureCast.net that I would like to ask. Leave a comment below and I’ll try and answer it. If it is a good question, it might become part of the documentation.

I have a suggestion or feedback about how to improve the web site. You can leave your feedback on the official ScriptureCast.net development blog.

Is the site in beta? What does beta mean? The site currently is in beta, which means that there are still a few things to be worked out and still some features that need to be added. While the site is in beta, you might find things rearranged or changed, but I’ll make every effort not to disrupt service.

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The Miller Effect

Jacob — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:35:57 +0000

In my electrical engineering class we are learning about the Miller effect. Someone in the class shared a web page which is suppose to be helpful in understanding the principle. Related posts:Understanding big and little endian byte order This page helped me understand pointers and such as they... New CD album out for EcEn 313 There is [...] Related posts:

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LDS.org project manager now has his own blog

Jacob — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:48:30 +0000

As explained in the about page of his blog, Larry Richman has started his own blog at ldsWebguy.com. His blog is not an official Church publication, but it does provide some interesting insight about what goes on behind some of the Church Internet strategies. I’ve read some of his posts, and some of them are ok.

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Peep watching

Jacob — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:13:57 +0000

Happy day after orthodox easter to everyone. Check out these pics: http://www.pigbook1.blogspot.com/ Related posts:Mentions Lori claimed that I mentioned Sandy twice in this blog,... ScriptureCast highlights A few months ago I announced the release of a... Related posts:

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AIM Fight

Jacob — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:02:12 +0000

I came across a neat little site today called AIM Fight. Basically, you put in two AIM screennames and it gives you a score for each about how popular they are.

Scores are computed based on how many people have you on their buddy list, and the scores of those people who have you, up to three levels deep.

Currently, I’m at 2575.

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Jacob — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:55:19 +0000

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Web Site Congruences

Jacob — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:23:49 +0000

I found this web site which talks about university website congruences in 2002. I thought it was kind of interesting. http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2002/webstudy.html Related posts:Web Site Accessibility and Usability Well, I’ve been learning a lot about creating usable web... Drews Web Site Drew is my home teaching comp and here is his... My top ten list of top ten lists It [...] Related posts:

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