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The Screwtape Letters is coming to a theater near you. If you’re not familiar with the work, it’s a C.S. Lewis classic that looks at an average (albeit mid-1900s British) Christian through the eyes of two demons, one of whom (Screwtape) is assigned to watch and tempt a certain man in order to fulfull his job and make his boss (Wormwood) happy. It’s a strange but thoroughly enlightening book. Coupled with the fact that it’s a series of letters, it will be very, very interesting to see how this is adapted for the screen. I’m certainly looking forward to it.

It makes me wonder if they’ll ever adapt Lewis’ Space Trilogy for the movies. Course, I’m wondering if they’ll be able to get through all 7 Narnia books as well. I certainly hope they do. The Last Battle is my number two favorite in the series. And can you imagine the visuals they’ll be able to achieve in 2056?

about Jesus and the devil. They’re in a programming contest when the electricity suddenly goes off, erasing all of their work in mid-code. The devil fumes while Jesus smiles. “Why are you smiling?” “Don’t you remember who I am? Jesus saves. Jesus saves.”

I learned that very important lesson today. I’ve learned it before, but I absorbed it into my innermost cerebral cortex today. In attempting to upgrade this site, I inadvertently deleted the structure of the website. After fixing that problem, I subsequently wreaked even more havoc by deleting the database. This essentially erased the entire website. Thankfully, there wasn’t a lot of information there, and it was somewhat easily fixed with an hour of work. But in those minutes when I realized what a quick, unthinking click had done, I wanted to put a foot through my monitor, throw my CPU through the window, then drop whatever else I could find in my office off of a high tower.

Note to readers: this does not happen often, so please fear not should you ask for a website from me. Cliche and trite, but you do live and learn.

Just remember to save your work before attempting webcentric surgery.

If change is good, then WordPress is great because it allows a multitude of theme changes with the click of a button. In redesigning the website for the church I work for, I happily stumbled upon WPdesigner, a WordPress theme designer that releases a lot of themes for free. You can see the one I used for the church website, and the new look for this blog is one of his designs as well.

Also, for the three or so regular readers of this site, I’m going to attempt a bit of paid blogging and see if it’s worthwhile. It’s through a company called payu2blog.com, so if you see some strange or odd posts – that’s why. I figure it’ll at least make me write more than I am now, which is not much at all, especially since I’ve been hard at work at getting that church site redesigned, as well as a few other extra-curricular web-centric activities (to wit, my wife’s company and my Georgetown city portal). If you need a home loan or a refinance, call us! If you live in Georgetown and want free advertising or just want your opinion heard or fancy yourself a resident reporter, register at iFoundGeorgetown.com.

In the meantime, and whatever downtime I can find during that meantime, I plan to work on this site. Do you need a website?

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