I don't go to a prosperity gospel church. My pastor and most pastors speak out, like this writer, against prosperity gospel preachers. I don't think anyone really takes them seriously. It's like Westboro Baptist Church. Freaks. No one is really like that. It's like the lottery. It's such an idiotic proposition you wonder what idiot is actually out there playing it then you find out its your mom or friend who says, "well someone has to win." Jesus isn't going to make you rich. The lotto isn't going to make you rich. And neither is God. Just saying.
This is my second blog. My first blog, ideabastard.com (don’t even look, I nuked it), was a little all over the place and was in Drupal. Drupal is a content management system like WordPress. So I started this for two reasons. First, I liked blogging. It seems a little narcassistic but I enjoy keeping a journal and I don’t write anything too personal. For a couple years now I have kept a timeline. Basically, a minimalistic journal. On this day I got my raise. On this day my mom died. It has about two dozen items each year. So when I want to know when I got my car, I can quickly look it up. This is like that with more words, pictures, and links.
But there is a second reason. I like to play with technology. And there is a new technology I want to play with. There is a company called PageLines. A couple years ago a friend of mine wanted me to start a business with him to develop websites and consult on search engine optimization. He said I could work part time. We even picked out a name. Red Hot Gorilla. I don’t know if it is a good name or not. We didn’t get very far. His name is Shaun Hoffmann and he passed away on September 28th 2012. He had Type I diabetes. Not long after PageLines announced they were going to take their main product and make it open source. Huge. And they were going to make it a Design Management System. In other words, you had WordPress for the Content Management System backend and you would get something like PageLines for the Design Management System theme.