Clean Up

I'm working on this blog and trying to get it right, but the HTML wants to fight me every step of the way.
Sorry for lines and things...I'll clean them up when I can.
The good news is that I'm learning HTML and that I have some pictures posted.
If any of you (friends and family) have some pictures of yourselves please send them so I can post them and we can all make fun of each other.

On a serious note, I'm reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's first work "This Side of Paradise" and I wanted to quote a bit for you. It's captured me.

"Amory, Son of Beatrice


Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair continually occupied in " taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her."

Ethics and paper writing

Here's one for discussion.
I'm taking an Information Systems class and we recently discussed ethics. With so many of us plugged in to the net, the exchange of information is quite fluid and that includes our personal information. A particular company called doubleclick.com tracks peoples patterns to better assess what products to market to them. I imagine an example would be if you go to a site for buying novels then they would let marketers of stores like Borders know that you are into books and to send you information and advertisements.
Do you think it is right for them to do this? What about other spyware that takes up space on your personal computer? How about personal information? People sell this info all the time and get away with it. Is anything private anymore?

On a side note...we also talked about plagiarism. I asked the professor this question based on a real situation that happened to a friend of mine who is a grad student. "If I write a paper for a previous class, and I am assigned a similar paper in another class is it plagiarism for me to turn in the paper that I had previously submitted and received a grade for?" The professor went back and forth with the argument and eventually concluded no, it is not plagiarism. My friends professor said it was. Hmmm...

Rwanda Journal Day 3

Sorry that I have not been keeping up in a timely fashion. I doubt that anyone is even checking this thing out anymore.

The Journal...

We landed in Nairobi...Took an hour flight and ended up in Kilgali exhausted. We ate lunch and quickly headed to the genocide memorial. I was numb. Well some of me. I couldn't quite tell whether I was I was distracted or protecting myself. Definitely both. I've been praying like crazy but can't get a connection. Something is awry. I did get a good flow this morning when I started to write my pseudo sermon. Well...It was real.

OK, what am I doing. I must want to torture myself. This week has everything I fear wrapped up in it; no control of my surroundings, public speaking, and I'm stuck with my ex on a foreign continent for 10 days. I am a moron. This is pure torture and I have no clue what God is going to do with it.

There's a strange group of loud men outside my window. By the grace of God and some earplugs I'll get to sleep.

If anyone is reading this I hope that the are laughing at the changing emotions. I am.