Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Foot in the Door

Yesterday I posted about ‘Powdered by WordPress’ and then Matt linked to my post. This was a huge boost in hits. What also happened that was interesting was that my stats showed a big jump in Safari and Firefox browsers… Firefox surpassed Internet Explorer 6.0 for the first time in this site’s history*. I’m going to get some screen shots up of the stats package for WordPress, and then when I do, I’d like to request comments, I suppose this’ll be my first RFC.

This feels like a foot in the door of the web development community. The truth of the matter is that I need to pay my dues and if people start watching this blog it will be because it has content they care about.

*That is to say on a day where more than 10 people checked it – 2 of which may have been me and my bride.

Color Schemer Studio

If you’re like me you’re a 20 something, white, anglo-saxon, protestant man with dirty blond hair married to an attractive gal with a 22 month old daughter and living in Denver. OK, so you may not be that much like me, but if you’re also like me you are not a color genius. I wear blue jeans and a white shirt most days. If I’m not wearing a white shirt I’m wearing a blue shirt.

However, this application ‘Color Schemer Studio‘ rocks my web design world. I can generate nice color schemes, and generate CSS files that I can edit with TopStyle. This is a simple looking interface, but it has a really nice, neat, clean, intuitive interface (can’t use enough descriptives with this color coordination application) so using it is easy.

I bought a copy after using the 15 day trial for 10 minutes. I didn’t need to look longer than that to know that I’ll use the cost of this up, plus some in no time while working on WorldClient and any other projects that come my way.

Losing My Salvation

I’ve been studying lately about the doctrine that is by some that you can lose your salvation. Catholics don’t teach this because they teach that you never know if/when you’re saved, and almost everyone must at least do some time in purgatory. However, the Foursquare church, the Nazarene church and others teach that you can lose your salvation. However, I’ve got several critical questions that I’d like answered for me (you may post a comment here or send me an email).

If at the point of salvation I have

  1. Died (Romans 6:2-6)
  2. Been buried (Romans 6:4)
  3. Been resurrected (Romans 6:5)
  4. Been ascended (Colossians 3:1)
  5. Been hidden in Christ (Colossians 3:3)
  6. Been seated with Christ (Colossians 3:1,3)

How does all of that get done? By God’s grace. And can you please show me the place in scripture where any of that is contingent on my works? And can you show me the place where some of my sins are not covered by Christ’s atoning work? The two denominations I listed above believe you can regain the salvation you’ve lost. If that is the case then why does Hebrews 6:4-6 say you cannot regain your salvation if it is lost (assuming it is possible to lose your salvation, because the Greek makes it clear it is a hyopthetical question, I contend it is not). Therefore a second salvation is not possible.

If a person can lose their salvation then they must

  1. Be unhidden in Christ
  2. Unseated with Christ
  3. Descend from the heavenlies
  4. Be reburied
  5. Undie
  6. The old man must resurrect into life (or death, depending on how you want to look at it.)

Paul never write about those as an option.

On top of that Ephesians 2:5 says, “.. by grace you were saved…” which the Greek text has in the perfect tense – as in its a done deal.

I’m not losing my salvation.

Kottke.org Redesign

A blog I follow via RSS, kottke.org has been redesigned. You cannot get more minimal than this. I take that back, you can, but if you do, you’re actually only using structural, syntactical HTML. It actually looks pretty good for being so minimalistic. Maybe I should try to come up with yet another design for this site that rivals that site’s minimalistic design.

Jessica is Sick

We missed church this morning because Jessica is not feeling well. This is a bummer because I don’t want my wife to feel sick, and also, it is a bummer because I don’t like to miss church. The prior outweighs the latter in priority, but after having such a hard time last week it would have been nice to go to church (I mean come on, I sat near my ex-girlfriend’s parents at church and then prayed with them during prayer time [I don’t think they recognized me]. It would have been funny if I thanked the Lord for the old speakers they gave me while dating their daughter, but it also would have been pretty inappropriate).

Speaking of the ex-girlfriends parents, they gave me their old stereo when they got a new one. The new one they cranked up really loud to show me how powerful the speakers were. I heard the ‘Forrest Dump’ sound track at about 200 decibels. Cindy’s mom was trying to impress me, but in the end Elvis at full volume is still no better than Elvis at normal volume. I mean, come on, the guy only had one thing going for him: he’s on USPS stamps. Now, to impress me with their new speakers she could have played something with some real bass: Count Basie.

But, in the end, Jessica is feeling poorly and so we’ll see how that effects the rest of the day.

Powdered by WordPress

One of the strengths of Google is that it can spell check your search terms so that you actually search for what you’re looking for. However, some words, like the title of this post conveys, don’t get corrected because ‘Powdered’ is a real English word. However, I think this person was looking for ‘Powered by WordPress.’ 🙂

I’m not sure what WordPress would do to ‘powder’ your site, but if there was anything that could be done, Matt et al would figure it out and throw it into the program. Maybe I should write the ‘Powder’ plugin since the 1.2 API allows for plugins. Any suggestions as to what the Powder plugin should do are appreciated.

On a similar note I’ve worked up an pretty nice statistics package that I’m thinking of opening up to the WordPress community that can create bar charts and basic reports for your WordPress use. Please let me know if you might be interested in such a thing. A Screenshot can be seen here

8th Grade Exam

8th Grade Exam from 1895. Note that my grate-grandfather was a few years old at this time. Note that this test plows the socks off of any tests I tuk in the athe grade. In fact, I can’t anser enuff of these compeletely enough to feel contenant any more. I must need to go bak to skool!

Belleview Park

There’s a park here in Greenwood Village called ‘Belleview Park’ (So glad they didn’t call it Belleview butcher shoppe since it’s a park, huh?). Amazingly it is on a road called Belleview. However, this park, being a good model of ‘park wisdom’ has a petting zoo ($1.00 for children over 2 through adults aged 197 and a half, over that and you get in free), they also have a little small scale train that runs through the park. Jessica and I spent $4.00 today for the three of us to have fun, can you beat that? I don’t think so.

The park also has the typical park things like grass, a small bit of water running through it (that is a river/stream thingy) lots of playing equipment as well as grills for barbecuing. On top of this already nice list for a park they have covered areas where you can gather. It’s nice that the covers are on top 🙂

Chase the Duck

Good-Bye Pinecorn

Abby, having amused us with ‘Green Sheep’ has fortunately/unfortunately outgrown ‘pinecorn’ in her vocabulary. What is a pinecorn? It is a yellow fleshed fruit that is prickly on the outside that doesn’t grow on trees: a pineapple. For several months they’ve been pinecorn but finally she’s picked up that they’re pineapple and now we say good-bye to an old new word.