Regarding Mrs. Schiavo's Impending Euthanasia

"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Romans 12:19, KJV)

God's Perhaps Hand

Dutch Iris Patch after Rain, 6:15 PM PST, 23 March, 2005

The vernal shower is a sweet breath to the soul; sweeter yet is the earth laughs in flowers through God's perhaps hand.

My Music RSS Feed, For What It Is Worth

I have created a RSS feed for my music website. If you are interested at all, just create a Live Bookmark in either or both of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird Email/news aggregator. When the music changes, you will be notified by the feed. Use either the XML or RSS URL feed below.

The XML URL Feed is:

http://members.bigvalley.net/deltasunrise/lenvoimusic.xml

or

Click and open the "L'Envoi's Music XML" icon located on the side-bar, and get the URL feed at the dialog box. Paste it into your news aggregator.

Firefox users may not be able to see the URL when the "L'Envoi's Music RSS" icon is clicked. It has to do with Firefox and unspecified MIME type and all that jazz. *grin*. Just copy and paste the URL feed link below into your news aggregator.

http://members.bigvalley.net/deltasunrise/lenvoimusic.rss

If all else fails, just go to Lenvoi's Musical Moment directly, bookmark or save it as a favorite.

Broad Band Users: Supercharge Your Firefox!

Thanks to my PC go-to-guy, Shawn, here is his tip on how to supercharge your Firefox for faster loading the web pages while surfing:

Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.max-connections
network.http.max-connections-per-server
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

Alter the entries as follows:

Set network.http.pipelining to "true" (default=false)

Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true" (default=false)

Set network.http.max-connections to 32 (default=24)

Set network.http.max-connections-per-server to 8 (default=8)

Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to 8 (default=8)

Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (default=4)

Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Restart your browser and enjoy.

One more thing: Foxfire 1.0.2, and Thunderbird 1.0.2 are now available.

A Note to A Mother

I wrote this note to a saddened mother, whose adopted daughter left home today.

When Amanda Jane becomes a mother one day, she will know about your abiding love for her.

A mother's love is unconditional and is deep as an abyss. Your love for her is not a question of whether she deserved it. It is always there for the giving.

It is Palm Sunday. Because of Jesus' finished work on the cross, we can be assured of God's abiding love. His grace is sufficient. Look to Him for strength.

This Vernal Equinox; Palm Sunday

This Palm Sunday is also the vernal equinox. The end of winter and the beginning of spring. There is an appropriate metaphor for the convergence of Palm Sunday and the vernal equinox on this day.

This Sunday marks the passing of dark winter, and the Passion week of Christ. This day also denotes a fruitful spring to come, and it points to His glorious resurrection and everlasting life of spring eternal

"The LORD your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior
He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy." (Zephaniah 3:17, NASB)

"Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD" (John 12:13, NASB)

First Day of Spring

Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere) arranging
a window, into which people look (while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here) and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
carefully to
and from moving New and
Old things, while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there) and

without breaking anything.

- e.e. cummings

A Plug for Firefox

Ever since my upgrading the Windows XP to SP2, my IE has gotten clunkier. Case in point, the Windows Media Player no longer streamload asx sound files on-line. What non-sense. Let's not even mention the pop-up ads that snuck through the ad blocker.

I've test driven the Firefox browser and am sold on it. By no mean Firefox is "perfect". It is far better then IE when all things browser innovations are considered.

I don't have to be bothered by pop-up ads anymore while surfing the Net with tabbed browsing; and I can listen to Rush Limbaugh's asx files online.

Sona Fe'ile Pa'draig ort!

A happy St. Patrick's Day to all. And for this special day, I have an Irish Bluegrass tune posted at Lenvoi's Musical Moment (side-bar). Irish jig, anyone?

Irish, the comment function is misbehavin' tonight. I replied to your message in the Be Still... post, but it is not visible. To read the comment, one has to click on the COMMENT link to read the comments in the pop-up windows. In fact, my comments got posted twice. Very strange.

I think the Blogger.com lad who mans the comment function, has gotten an early start with the celebrating "spirit" on St. Paddy's Day.

Now, where did I put those Killakee hard shoes?

On this Ides of March

For what it is worth, Julius Caesar's cronies conspired and stabbed him to death on this day in 44 B.C. Caesar was quite famous in his times and to this day.

There is a surgical procedure, an abdominal incision, for the delivery of a baby named after this Roman emperor's legendary birth; the Caesaren-Section.

One way or another, Julius Caesar was on the cutting edge of history.

Also borne on this day was Harry James. A Big Band trumpeter and orchestra leader.