Archive for October, 2007

The madness of a web developer

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

To relax in the evenings (when I get the chance) I like nothing better to listen to a few tunes from Emusic - I recently purchased (I subscribe - it’s a technicality) Tiesto’s ‘Parade Of The Athletes’ which is an awesome tune selection. Also obtained an excellent album called ‘Exploring The Tributaries’ by Vibrasphere. A fine mixture of ambient and trance which is at moments beautiful, other moments have you wishing you were on a dancefloor. A great album I’ve played pretty much solid since yesterday. Also, they have another album called ‘Archipelago’ which is probably more in the ambient vein, but these are two great albums worth a download from emusic.com.

I’m currently in the process of completing a site for another client, can’t really give details, but the deadline is tight. So that’s eaten a lot of personal time too. Again. Still it gets money into the business, and keeps me in a job.

My girlfriend’s gone through some troubles recently, requiring a hospital visit or two. It’s a delicate situation, and although we are looking at a drastic resolution to matters, we are also expectant of a God who heals. I myself am a testimony to this, as I was diagnosed with an infection in the ears which would have now left me deaf nearly 6 years ago. The fact I love music and can still listen to it is testimony enough to that same God. So, in one mind we are praying that God will heal, but if He decides not, then that is also a realistic viewpoint. I think that people can become misguided when prayers are offered for healing and none is received. I sincerely wished for healing during my severe headache phase (I used to get severe cluster headaches), and none was forthcoming. Was this a problem? No. Did it mean God doesn’t exist or that He didn’t care? No. To the contrary, God does care, and He did pull me through. Without healing the illness, but then if it was that easy, everyone would jump on the bandwagon.
God has plans and purposes beyond our reckoning. That much we know. I know this: God has me here, enduring my trials, enjoying life, and still feeling that this is the right place and right time for me.

Sorry about that, just a little rant about stuff. Anyway, I’ll post again soon.

BTW - All that about changing to Joomla. Not yet. Still working on it. However, Wordpress works fine for me. It also has a relatively small webserver footprint too.