Last summer, when visiting Ashley’s family in Illinois, we met their friend’s new puppy Ivy.
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Author Archives: Ryan Imel
Turkey Festival, Fall 2007
Ashley and I attended something called a Turkey Festival last year over in her hometown in Illinois.
My Time in Chicago, August 2007
I attended An Event Apart in Chicago last August.
On Storing and Sharing Photographs
When I started using WordPress about two years ago, I was interested in the platform specifically for the utility I saw in it. At the time I didn’t have the slightest idea about how to construct a system for managing content. I had begun to play with PHP includes, but that only gave me a slightly more efficient way of handling static information.
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Huntington’s Christ Centeredness
This post revolves around Huntington University’s theme for the 2007–08 academic year. For information regarding it see: their theme website, coverage on a United Brethren news site (hideous site by the way), and, for more discussion, the Assistant Director of Campus Ministries’ blog. For those on Facebook and/or at Huntington, this post was duplicated for a group here.
Business Blogging Ebook from Michael Martine
I recently reviewed a great book in PDF form from a blogging friend of mine, Michael Martine.
How I CSS
Cascading style sheets are an essential component of the web. I remember back when they weren’t, or more accurately back when they weren’t as popular (about the time they were only being used to set font colors). Let’s just say I’m very happy that the web is moving toward the separation of content, style, and behavior.
Bible Stories for Children
Ashley pointed me to an interesting article in the USA Today this morning that discusses different stances and approaches to telling Biblical stories in the form of children’s books. The article was pretty well balanced (surprisingly) and I thought I would distill what was said and offer a view that wasn’t presented, that is, not to tell children these stories when they are small.
What Makes a Quality Definition
Defining and categorizing has always seemed to be at once the simplest and most difficult thing imaginable. I especially enjoy Socrates discuss the topic in his dialogs. It’s interesting to see some (what seem to me to be) silly options tossed out to describe the way to think of a definition, and know that even today we struggle with the same issue, just later on in history.
A Quick Thought
Knowing what an acronym is—the what, the why, the true purpose of it in practice as well as conversation—is important. Knowing what the acronym stands for is only for geeks.
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