Stolen from Sarah who stole it from Hannah who stole it from Leo (whoever that is...)

FIRSTS
First job: I repaired bicycles for a troubled childrens home where my dad worked one summer. With my money I bought my first study Bible, a New Scofield Reference edition, which I somehow recently lost.

First screen name: walljm1984 (still use it too)

First funeral: My Grandma's (Dad's mom)

First pet: Gerbil whom we affectionately called Reepicheep.

First piercing/tattoo: N/A

First credit card: Discover

First Kiss: A little girl named Emily who is no longer so little, but we were like 3 or 4.

First one that mattered: N/A

First love: N/A

First enemy: Can't remember...

First big trip: Uganda, Africa in 2001.

First concert: Ray Boltz.

First musician you remember hearing in your house: Michael W. Smith.

LASTS
Last car ride: to work this morning.

Last kiss: My mom last time I saw her.

Last library book checked out: can't remember.

Last movie watched: Cool Hand Luke

Last beverage drank: Mt. Dew (I'll probably regret that)

Last food consumed: barbecue sandwitch.

Last phone call: Jeremy

Last CD played: Wagner

Last annoyance: Not having enought time to sleep with so much work.

Last soda drank: Mt. Dew

Last ice cream eaten: Vanilla

Last shirt worn: Long Sleeved Crew Cut Black

Last website visited: diveintomark

NOW
1) Single or Taken: Single

2) Sex: Male

3) Birthday: 03/23/1978

4) Sign: Aries, but on the Chinese calendar I'm a Horse.

5) Siblings: Andrew (he calls hiself Read) and Jeremy

6) Hair color: Dark Brown

7) Eye color: Hazel

8) Shoe size: 11 1/2

9) Height: 5'11"

RIGHT NOW, WHAT ARE YOU
1) Wearing: Jeans and Black Shirt

2) Drinking: Mt. Dew

3) Thinking about: How soon can I quit my second job.

4) Listening to: The ambient noise of the people working around me.

5) Watching: my computer screen.

6) Feeling: tired, very very tired.

For those who are interested, my Kinja digest can be found here: www.kinja.com/user/walljm

The gallery is of Afghanistan and the photographer is Simon Norfolk. Each photo is presented with a description of the location, and a brief essay about the photos is also offered. Fabulous.



The link was found via twoplaces.net, an art photo magazine of sorts.

Photoblog Roundup

• Brownpau has some exquisite cherry blossom photos. The effect his photopen has adds a dreamy quality to the shots.
  
• This photo of a broken reflection has a somewhat dark moody quality with no real direction, but fun never the less.
  
• So very blue.
  
• Photos with this warm brown color always make me think of home and the country and farms. It has an air of quality and history and grandfathers.
  
• Asperagas! How very green and organic.
  

Jon is my roomate. He's cool, so you should buy him stuff.

Jon is my roomate. He's cool, so you should buy him stuff.

Walljm.com is undergoing a massive restructuring internally. You won't notice much, but trust me, the foundations are moving beneath your feet. :)

Posting will likely not occur for several weeks while things gets fixed and changed. Like Paulo before me, I'll be off the air. Also, things may or may not work sporadically, and commenting will be turned off as well, as there are migration issues, and I don't want stuff getting lost while in transition. You can email me if you have questions, and the contact form will still work as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience. Do take a look at the archives if you need something to do, or visit some of the fine bloggers listed in the links section.

Thanks!

Since I've been away, and you might be curious, I thought I would spend some time explaining what I've been doing with Walljm.com for the past couple months.

Walljm.com is home grown, hand coded and a grand experiment in evolutionary software development. I don't have the advantage of using a CMS being continually improved by some group of talented people. Walljm.com was, in the begining, an excercise in code, a chance to prove to myself I could do it, and also to teach myself the skills I needed to compete in this industry.

But the problem was, walljm.com grew into somethign more than what I originally intended. The blogging industry matured, and things like categories, post titles, integrated link logs, photoblogs, and other things came about and my architecture wasn't prepared to meet them.

So we delved into the inner workings, prayed fervently, and with some tricky sql magic and a plan, I merged the poetry, photography, and blog tables, merged their corresponding comment tables, retained backwards compatibility with old permalinks, while adding the ability to add other types of blogs easily, as well as providing for integrated categorization, and post titles.

One of the things that played prominently in the impetus for the restructuring was the idea of what my home page was. I found myself torn between wanting my site to be a photoblog, a normal blog, and at times a link log. Depending on what day of the month, my desires for the site changed. I wanted my home page to reflect the most updated content of the site, regardless of its type (poetry, photography, links, blog posts, essays, etc). Thus the integration of the tables and the categorization.

All this to say that I'm back and things are much easier to use inside. Now, whenever a photo, poem, link, or blog post is added, you will see it on the main page. Specific pages will still exist for archives of the different blogs as well. Thanks to all for being patient.

Here's what has been going on since I've been away,

• The Society for Neuroscience has some cool and interesting atricles on how the brain functions.
  
• This Table of Condiments demonstrates all the good things the Internet is for.
  
• Top designers give their opinion about Type on the web and where it's going.
  
• We remembered how much we like the twothirty.com website. They have the best prose i've ever encountered. Reading it just makes me want to work with them on something... doesn't matter what, just something.
  
• Ping O Matic pings all those websites you can't really keep up with. Nice!
  
• UML State Diagrams... we remember having to mess with those things back in school...
  
• Matt illustrates just why it is especially important for Christians to avoid online theft.
  
• the Osil8 Minneapolis sign project surfaced again.
  
• Christians are denied the same rights are other Americans.
  
• Overcaffeinated.net is pretty funny, and happens to like comics. His own little web comic is funny, if a bit crude, so beware.
  
• Peter Pipers Color Picker lets you practice picking out color schemes using tried and true principles of color theory. As a bonus, it's a good a way to test color themes.
  
• Color Match Remix is the successor to Color Match (i like to this on my links page). You can save themes, export the values to text files, and a host of other additions. Very nice.
  

Also, I hope you've been watching the photoblogs lately, cause they've been doing a phenomenal job. To many good photos to point out here, but kudos.

Great Photo picks for today!

• Orbit 1 has a photo of a little girl making faces.
  
• Infrangible has a quirky shot with retro style.
  
• Heather Champ has a Peony on display.
  
• Food4eyes as always, is amazing.
  
• Deceptive media has this cool photoshopped image of a daisy. Slightly disturbing for some reason.
  
• Chromasia has this shoe. yeah. a shoe.
  
• Apperently Nothing has a nice landscape of a bridge.
  

Great Photo picks for today!

• Orbit 1 has a photo of a little girl making faces.
  
• Infrangible has a quirky shot with retro style.
  
• Heather Champ has a Peony on display.
  
• Food4eyes as always, is amazing.
  
• Deceptive media has this cool photoshopped image of a daisy. Slightly disturbing for some reason.
  
• Chromasia has this shoe. yeah. a shoe.
  
• Apperently Nothing has a nice landscape of a bridge.
  

Great Photo picks for today!

• Orbit 1 has a photo of a little girl making faces.
  
• Infrangible has a quirky shot with retro style.
  
• Heather Champ has a Peony on display.
  
• Food4eyes as always, is amazing.
  
• Deceptive media has this cool photoshopped image of a daisy. Slightly disturbing for some reason.
  
• Chromasia has this shoe. yeah. a shoe.
  
• Apperently Nothing has a nice landscape of a bridge.
  

Great Photo picks for today!

• Orbit 1 has a photo of a little girl making faces.
  
• Infrangible has a quirky shot with retro style.
  
• Heather Champ has a Peony on display.
  
• Food4eyes as always, is amazing.
  
• Deceptive media has this cool photoshopped image of a daisy. Slightly disturbing for some reason.
  
• Chromasia has this shoe. yeah. a shoe.
  
• Apperently Nothing has a nice landscape of a bridge.
  

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!

In the most recent edition of Touchstone Magazine, S. M. Hutchins speaks in his article Please Me, O Lord about the roots of Romantic Worship. Very well done.



To note, I covered this issue with less aplomb in a post on A Blog Apart called, Rampant Addiction to Emotionalism Discovered in Much of the Western World!