Google's Global Fastest Rising Searches, 2011
It’s always interesting to me to see what the world has searched for over the past year. Google has done a great job in the past years of showing that information through their Zeitgeist, and this year is no different. From the fastest rising searches to the fastest falling, it’s interesting to see what people wanted to know about the most and what they stopped caring about this past year. Continue Reading…
Everyone else seems to be doing it, so I guess I’ll jump on the bandwagon once again.
I’m sure there are different ways of measuring what posts have done the best over the course of a year. Even between WordPress stats and Google Analytics, I get different results as to how many views each of my posts has gotten. Continue Reading…
I find it interesting how the status of a person can elevate them above consequences in the minds of their supporters. The news of Joe Paterno losing his job sparked riots in State College. To his supporters involved in the riots, Paterno is not culpable for anything in regards to the scandal that has flooded media outlets this past week. I don’t know if they feel that he fulfilled his duty in the matter, or that his actions (or lack there of) are not that big of a deal, but it seems that they are more worried about who’s going to coach Penn State football than the lives that have been affected by what has happened. Continue Reading…
Our family recently hosted some friends of ours in our house. They were moving back to Pittsburgh from Missouri and needed a place to stay until they found a house or apartment. While it was stressful at times, I didn’t really mind having an extra six people in our house. I actually miss having them around all the time since they’ve found an apartment. It wasn’t as much as an inconvenience as I thought it would be, and actually made some things a little easier. Continue Reading…
30 years is a long time for anything. I haven’t even been alive for 30 years yet, so I am blown away when I think about someone being in ministry for that long. Over the past month we’ve been celebrating the 30 years of ministry of Pastor Jay Passavant. It is unusual to see the founding pastor of a church stay as the lead pastor for very long, but that is just what Pastor Jay has done with North Way Christian Community. Continue Reading…
With a blank page in front of me and a cursor beckoning me to type, words begin to appear on the page as fragments of my heart and mind turn to text on my screen. Typographical errors add a splash of color as my thoughts drip out at a few words per minute. I’ve missed this. I miss reading other blogs and books. I miss writing. Being away for so long has caused the creative writing portion of my brain to atrophy some and the process is much slower than I remember, but it is not forgotten. Continue Reading…
My last post was about cleaning house online. I had grown tired of wanting upgrade this and that but not doing so in fear that I would mess up any coding that I worked long hours on. So I downloaded everything as a backup and started from scratch. I’ve learned a lot about blogging over the life of this blog, so starting from scratch is going to be good for me. If you read my last post (Cleaning House), you know that I laid out 3 Reasons To Not Expect Version 4 Very Soon. A more appropriate title would have been 3 Focus Points in Becoming a Better Blogger, and I would have probably put them in a different order.
Today’s focus has been number 3 from yesterday’s post: Priorities. Today is my day off from work. In the past that has meant “do what you want to do day.” In a way, it still was that, but in a different light. I want to spend time with my family. I want to live in a comfortable house. I want to do things that please my wife. Continue Reading…
Eventually there is an idea to stick with. (Creativity by Mark van Laere via Flickr)
Have you ever worked on a project over a long period of time? You tweak things here and there over the course of days, and those days turn into months and years. When you think you finally have it the way you want it, you realize that something you did messed up some other part. By the time you fix that, you want to take the whole project in a different direction.
That is how things have been on this blog. I started as “just another wordpress blog” and designed and redesigned my way to tlamarca.com 3.0. With so many little tweaks that I’ve made to Standard Theme to make it look the way I want it to, I can’t remember where they all are. This poses a problem when it comes time to make upgrades to the site and theme. Continue Reading…
Kidz GiG is the annual summer Bible camp that we have at North Way Christian Community. Up until this year, it has been held only at our Wexford campus, seen in the video above. This year we are going multi-site with it and having Kidz GiG in The Shadyside and Sewickley communities of Pittsburgh as well. Kidz GiG for our Oakland campus (being held in Shadyside) starts tomorrow and Kidz GiG in Sewickley is happening the following week. It was awesome to see over 400 kids in Wexford this past week, growing in God’s Word and hearing the Gospel. Over the next two weeks, even more kids will get the same experience!
I like to work on video projects. Every once in a while I have some down time, so I’ve started creating motion loops for our worship services at North Way. Now that I have four done, I thought I’d share them here.
