Revelation

To my knowledge the Bible is the only book that has a distinct revelation of
the beginning and the end.
That is to say the Bible reveals, through the work of God what took place in
the beginning and through the work of God what will happen in the end.
There is something amazing about that to me.
Maybe I’m a little slow, dense or easily excited but I came to that realization this morning.

No one else was there to witness the beginning (human wise), and no one else,
besides John who was shown the revelation to document God’s foreknowledge,
has been into the future to know that which will happen.
On the surface this may seem simple, but it really emphasizes God’s
omnipotent nature and man’s weak ability to control himself, his
environment or anything else for that matter.
Being a parent I see that there’s little to nothing I really have control
over in my daughter’s life.
I cannot make her start or stop laughing, crying, screaming or wiggling when
we go out, but that’s not impossible for God.
I hope He makes Abby laugh a lot more than she cries or screams 🙂

Jessica is Twenty-Six

Jessica had her birthday yesterday and we’re very excited about her being legal to drink and gamble now.
Oh, wait, she was that old before, but we’re excited she’s old enough to get married.
Shoot!
She’s old enough for that now, too.
Maybe she’s just old enough now to be past the ‘twenty-middle’ age and is now
on the down side of the twenties, descending down into the peaks of the
thirties.
Either way she’s a beautiful bride and I love her dearly.
She’s a great mom to Abigail and I think she’s a fabulously godly woman!

Resting in Him,

Randy “Theology-Man” Peterman

New Pictures

Are coming.
I don’t have them up yet, but they’ll be up shortly… as in the next few days.
We’re going to try to take some more blue bonnet pictures (as in the flowers, not me running around with a blue bonnet on my head).
We’re nearing the 60% mark on the packing and have to finish the next 40% and cleaning soon.

I saw The Passion Thursday night and will have a review of it later,
right now I have to go keep packing, but I just wanted to post an update.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Packing” Peterman

What Not To Do

I am not a marketing wizard, nor did I go to Hogwart’s and drop out.
I am not a brilliant salesperson ready to take over the world with salesmanship.
However, I am a consumer and I do know what turns me off from products,
packaging, and advertising.
Below are some key examples of what not to do with Marketing.
If you find an example, email me and I might include it in this list.
Also, some things may be changed, edited or fixed after I write about them,
apologies if URL’s get outdated, I’ll try to keep them up, let me know if
you find a bad one.

HTML Pad

Date: 2004-03-24

I use Nick Bradbury’s
TopStyle, but the HTMLPad software package has a slogan I’m not going to buy:
Probably the best HTML editor in the world.
I probably won’t want to buy it, even though it’s super cheap.
It’s probably not the best in the world, in fact it looks like a
rip-off of TopStyle.

Macromedia RoboHelp X5

I received a brochure in the mail from them with the following sloppy typos:

  • Use these built in version control features or integrate with
  • Output yout Help system as XML in standard or customized schemas

Emphasis added.

The first bullet is sad.
Who proofed this ad?
What does their software integrate with?
I think it must integrate with everything since it doesn’t limit itself to
any specific version control.

The second point is that you better check yout [sic] spelling if you’re advertising.
From such a large corporation with mass marketing I expect better.

Happy 19th Month Birthday!

Abby is now officially 19 months old, and so in honor of that I am going to take her out for ‘ambigee’ tonight.
For those of you not familiar with ‘ambigee,’ it is a cold, frozen substance made from milk, sugar, and usually some flavoring.
It is commonly sold under the product name ‘Ice Cream.’
However, Abby calls it ambigee, and so tonight we’ll go get some ambigee.
Or maybe not, depends on how she’s acting since she’s a very strong willed child.

Saturday Night Rocked

We have really neat friends down here, they threw us a going away party.
How cool is that?
I really wish that I could bring them all with me (some of them wished they could come with me).
We enjoyed the time together and I wished that I was a teenager again so that I could have partied longer and stayed up way past my bedtime.
But instead we got home around 9:40 and went immediately to bed.

Thanks go out to our buddies, comrades, friends and pals here in Texas (even if you didn’t come Saturday night).

The End is Near

This site will soon become my business presence, at which point in time I’ll most likely move my blog to a sub-directory of www.randypeterman.com.
When that happens I’ll let you know by putting a small link to the blog at the footer of the new company site.
I may have to tame some of the content, but know that I’ll continue to put up things as I see fit.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Peterman” Peterman

MDaemon 7.0 Cracks

MDaemon for Free

I’m really saddened to look at my referrers (links from other sites to mine) and see that people have been Googling for MDaemon 7.0 cracks and getting to my site.
I’m sad because I work hard to help contribute features and functionality and people are trying to rip it off.
I can proudly say that I don’t have any illegal software (to my knowledge, unless I’ve been duped by some dubious copy-catter).
Sometimes that means that I don’t buy software because I can’t afford it, but it doesn’t mean that I go without always.

If you get here looking for MDaemon cracks, please consider that you’re breaking the law, you’re steeling from me and my family, and you’re steeling from my company.
There are open source solutions that you might be able to implement as well, please consider your legal options.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman

Good Food. Bad Food.

Good Food

In an effort to make me sad that I’ve lived in Euless for 3.8 years and not eaten there before we went to the Main Street Barbecue (surprisingly at600 N. Main St. Euless, TX 76039).
This was good barbecue and I strongly recommend that you go there if you are eating on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Those are the days of the week that they’re open…but the food is worth it.
It cost me $12.00 even to eat food and have a glass of iced tea.
But once I paid I could eat as much of the food as I wanted and drank as much iced tea as I wanted.
Good food.
Really good food.

I also found the Tabasco brand ‘Smoked’ tobacco sauce, AKA Chipotle flavor.
This stuff is great and I can’t wait to try it on just about everything, except dessert.

Bad Food

In an effort to help pack up the apartment for the move I had to pack up some of the kitchen and pantry.
There were things in there that we didn’t know about (not a surprise), but there were some potatoes growing in the pantry.
I took care of them and I hope that they take over the garbage dump somewhere… possibly in Arlington.
I also found several bottles of hot sauce that I had lost.
That’s not so bad food… I’ll probably use it after finishing the chipotle Tabasco.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Pepper Phreak” Peterman

Out To Get Me

No, not a conspiracy theory, but an annoyance.
I contacted Qwest customer service today to find out about getting DSL setup in Denver.
The people on the phone are not technically oriented.
In fact, if anything they’re geared towards always telling everyone the same
thing: buy our package.
This is a good thing for Qwest, who’s in bankruptcy.
If I buy their marked-up garbage, then they get more money and I get yet
another DSL router.
I’ve got one already thanks.

I looked up online and there are two major types of DSL – both of which my
router supports.
So, I suppose I could buy a second router just to say that I’m part of the
American pollution, I mean population that buys lots of stuff.

A Few Happy Thoughts

Less Wired

Tonight I went to Jason’s Deli for dinner with Jessica and I told the manager
that I appreciated that they had Caffeine Free Diet Coke (I can’t have the
regular Coke because of my allergies to the Corn syrup, plus I don’t
handle lots of sugar well).
They are the only restaurant that I have been to that serves this.
Thanks Jason (or whatever corporate board that presents themselves as ‘Jason’)
for choosing to offer this little difference.

My Buddy

Tonight I got a phone call at 9:00 PM from my friend Tony
that started out sounding serious.
Tony told me that he had something bad to tell me.
Which caused my mind to come up with 4-5 seriously negative guesses.

  1. Tony was fired
  2. Someone died
  3. Someone was on their way to the hospital
  4. Someone got fired on their way to the hospital while dyeing
  5. All of the above

However, it turned out that Josh had somehow gotten Jessica’s lotion on his blanket when we were visiting earlier this week.
Josh told his dad while preparing to go to bed that he liked the way that his blanket, Buddy, smelled.
This is rather funny, but you know what?
I didn’t laugh.
I was still waiting for the bad news.
I told Jessica, because it was funny, and she laughed, but I couldn’t laugh,
I was in ‘manly’ mode.
A time and place where I do whatever it takes to not cry and get ready to
pray like a dedicated pray machine.
I do pray regularly (I Thes. 5:17 says, “Pray without ceasing.”), but I was
in battle mode.

The moral of the story: I should know better than to think Tony would call me
with bad news 😉

Lastly

We’re sad and glad to announce that we will be selling the Stratus next
Friday to our friends.
I am glad to have the Stratus, it has been a blessing to own, but in Denver
we’ll only need the one car.
I pray the ‘Start Us’ will bless them with many more miles and long, hassle
free driving pleasure.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Gullible” Peterman

Friends Twice

Friend One

I’ve got a friend who’s in a tough place right now.
He’s got some issues at work that are really irritating for him, and I feel
bad for him.
I’m grateful that he’s got Christ to cling to for comfort, and for direction.
The one thing I’m grateful for at Alt-N is my sense of being comfortable.
Jerry and Arvel make it easy to communicate with them and they’re not shifty.
Having had a shifty boss before, I don’t envy this friend’s position, but
he’s in my prayers.

Friend Two

I have added a list of XFN
is a use of the HTML
anchor tag’s “rel” attribute to explain my connection (however ambiguous)
with other people in a URL
to their website.
The new section of the site is just a
link to the site and a description of the person as I know them (or
perceive them to be).

Resting in Him,

Randy “Friendly” Peterman

SXSW Over

SXSW is now over, and I have
to say it was a good time.
It was great to go and see and learn from various folks, in fact, as I
mentioned before, I met Eric Meyer and Nick Bradbury.
In fact, Nick stopped me as I was leaving the second morning session today and said hi again.
Made me feel good since yesterday was so brief.
Unfortunately, this too was brief, but I hope to get to spend more time with he and maybe get some time with some of the other web gurus.
That may be in the future some time.

Other Happenings

Last night Tony and I discussed further some server side code and testing, which was good.
That lead to discussing programming over dinner with Erin and Jessica at Bahama Breeze.
Great food and great fun!

Jessica took Abby to The Little Gym this morning with Erin and Davis.
Fabulous fun was had and Abby apparently enjoyed the balance beam.
This little girl is so neat, I’m glad to be her dad!

Resting in Him,

Randy “web nut” Peterman