Google vs Yahoo

WordPress vs Blogger

Facebook vs Myspace

It may seem silly because no matter what you choose you can make things work for themselves.  However I question if my choice was the right one.  Currently I use google, wordpress and facebook more often.  I do have a [...]]]> So I have an internal debate over many various web resources….

Google vs Yahoo

WordPress vs Blogger

Facebook vs Myspace

It may seem silly because no matter what you choose you can make things work for themselves.  However I question if my choice was the right one.  Currently I use google, wordpress and facebook more often.  I do have a yahoo, blogger and myspace account that I use from time to time but not very often.

This came up to me again because I just started using google reader.  I think it is a very cool thing.  I have attached all my favorite blogs (about 20 blogs) and it will download any new post.  That will save me time and trouble as I don’t have to go to each website to see if there is a new post.  I think it is great.

I have chosen Google over Yahoo because I think google is very clean cut. I like its integration of all the different services (maps, reader, mail ect) I like how I have my iGoogle where I can post what I want on a homepage and I can move stuff around to my liking.  Once I signed up with Google I was hooked.

I like WordPress because it seems more professional too me.  It was very easy for me to set things up and once I came up with a name I liked (papajoemc) I was on WordPress and before I knew it people were reading my blog and making comments and I thought it was too late to go back.  Now in an ideal world I would be using blogger because Google has a deal with blogger and I would integrate even more but I am happy where I am.  I am alittle sad with WordPress because we cannot add java to our widgets like you can with blogger. But in the end that is okay, because people are coming to read my blog not to see what the latest ELCA news is or what movie I put on my blockbuster cue.  Since my interest in photography has taken off I do have a blog with blogger where I will post a picture I have taken or one taken of me with a brief description.  That will be my “fun” blog and I will have lots of different crap over there. So check that out if you get a chance.  Currently I don’t have an SD card reader ( I lost it) so I will have to go out and get a new one to post my photos.

Talk about professionalism, Facebook is MUCH neater and nicer than myspace.  I am able to add applications with ease, and even though I miss making a unique background when it comes down too it I don’t miss it that much.  My wife has a myspace page (as do I) and that is one of the reasons I stick with myspace.  Even though we talk with one another it is nice to leave messages for one another.  There are also people on myspace that I talk with every now and again who otherwise I would not talk with.

Eventually, I need to stick with one and stick with it.  The transition will be hard but it will be worth it. Currently though all my email goes to one address so no matter what you email me on I will get it (unless it goes to spam) and when everything is said and done I believe the Iphone has push email through yahoo so eventually when I get my iphone (and I will get one some day) I might have to make that jump and never look back.  Until then the debate continues….

I usually don’t ask questions on my blog but I am curious

Which (if any) services do you use? Why did you choose that service? Are you happy with it?

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I know that first and foremost I am a child of God. God’s love in my life is evident and I would never change that.

I know that I am a husband and [...]]]> I was thinking about my identity last night while driving the Dunkin’ Donuts truck. Who am I and what is important to me?

I know that first and foremost I am a child of God. God’s love in my life is evident and I would never change that.

I know that I am a husband and a father. I have two great kids who make me smile and laugh everyday. They can instantly change my mood and I am grateful for that. I also have a loving, beautiful supportive wife. I don’t know how I would of made it through seminary without her.

But after that what is there? What shapes me and keeps me going? What do I do during my “free time” — I look around and see people with these hobbies that they support and that they take time out for and it has been awhile since I have done that. I was talking with a friend the other day who asked me how my guitar playing was going. I can’t really say the last time I played guitar for “fun.” It is always church related. Part of that is my fault and part of that is life.

I think what brought this up was the fact that I was out at 1am driving the Dunkin Donuts truck. “Why am I still doing this?” I was asking myself. I belong to this great company called Shaklee, and we have started a home business from Shaklee. Our hope is to one day earn enough with it where Katie can stay home with the kids and maybe one day I would go to part time ministry, or we can travel and just have fun for awhile, between calls (I don’t think I could ever give up ministry totally). Until then Shaklee is keeping us healthy and happy. But instead of putting time and energy into that I am driving a truck at 1am doing something that I totally don’t like but having some extra money is good.

I would love to have Shaklee be a major part of our identity and I need to this week (among the other hundred things I need to do, thank God I don’t have class) is to figure out my priorities and I need to align them to come to a solid understanding of my identity and live that out in my daily life.

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I ended up having a wonderful [...]]]> Boy lots of stuff has happened to me. I switched my major — to what I don’t know. I know that whatever direction I go in is the right one. I am thinking Religion with either a socology or communications minor but I am not sure.

I ended up having a wonderful break. I loved being home for Christmas and I loved seeing James and Jeremy. We had a blast. I ended up drinking and getting pretty drunk. I had lots of fun doing it and I don’t know if that is totally wrong or not. Nothing bad became of it and I don’t do it alot but it was fun. Is that bad? I was probably doing it for the wrong reasons but I don’t knwo waht those reasons were. I think I was not thinking and that was the problem. but was it a problem?

I did go to NYC with my family and Bill did not go. That was a bummer but it is the fact of life. SO I guess I have to deal with it.

I am back a school not and I am on duty as an RA on Satu night. That might be interesting. I hope that I don’t have to confront any big parties. This weekend has been good and con only look to get better. I am happy now and I have not been happy in a long time. I am glad to be happy.

I still have a thing for JH. She is amazing. I wish she would have more time to spend with my. When we do spend time together I would like to know more about her, then talk about me. But I want her to see how great I am and hopefully like me back.

Things with J have bene up and down. It is so dumb and I should not worry about it but I do. Things are good and how I feel is good and I am content with that.

I started to work out again, but once again my activies have taken over my life and I can’t stop them. thigs come up and I have to deal with them. I whish they would not come up and I was not so busty but then would I be happy? I am not sure.

So many questions in life and I think I will have them for a long time. Some of them I think might never get answered.

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