As the month rolled by

March 31, 2014 by • Life •

I have tried to write this month but every single day kept bring its own challenge as the month rolled by. I basically had something fill every single free time and when the something did not require labor, it had to give way to rest.

Going Through the Days

So apart from the hectic schedule at work, there was the ‘small’ issue of learning about the theology of Thomas Aquinas from the perspective of his Summa Theologica. The summary of that experience is that well ahead of our time, Thomas had spent time thinking deeply about issues concerning our walk with God in this life and had chosen to use all the intellectual tools available to him to explain these issues in the light of the word of God and the teachings of the church.
It is really no surprise that people have turned back to him to learn, from him ways in which the assault posed today towards the faith could be handled.

While learning that, the place of the Hebrew poetry in the canon of scriptures was also imbibed. The beauty of the Book of Psalms and of the Prophet Isaiah came to life, showing the depth of the riches of the word of God. In these books, we see the various literary devices used to explain deep things to common people that their understanding might be reached.
We see the Suffering servant speak the words of life concerning his role, goals and mission. The word of God is just so powerful.

All in all, the month has been loaded and here we are at the end of the month. If I do not post this today, then the window is gone but as I have done it now, then I have hope that the future months to come will be better.

Soli Deo Gloria

As the month rolled by

March 31, 2014 by • Life •

I have tried to write this month but every single day kept bring its own challenge as the month rolled by. I basically had something fill every single free time and when the something did not require labor, it had to give way to rest.

Going Through the Days

So apart from the hectic schedule at work, there was the ‘small’ issue of learning about the theology of Thomas Aquinas from the perspective of his Summa Theologica. The summary of that experience is that well ahead of our time, Thomas had spent time thinking deeply about issues concerning our walk with God in this life and had chosen to use all the intellectual tools available to him to explain these issues in the light of the word of God and the teachings of the church.
It is really no surprise that people have turned back to him to learn, from him ways in which the assault posed today towards the faith could be handled.

While learning that, the place of the Hebrew poetry in the canon of scriptures was also imbibed. The beauty of the Book of Psalms and of the Prophet Isaiah came to life, showing the depth of the riches of the word of God. In these books, we see the various literary devices used to explain deep things to common people that their understanding might be reached.
We see the Suffering servant speak the words of life concerning his role, goals and mission. The word of God is just so powerful.

All in all, the month has been loaded and here we are at the end of the month. If I do not post this today, then the window is gone but as I have done it now, then I have hope that the future months to come will be better.

Soli Deo Gloria

This is a picture of the IFTTT website welcome page

IFTTT

February 15, 2014 by • Life • Tags: , , , •

IFTTT is if this then that. It is an internet of things app. It allows you to use the internet to automate certain tasks to make your life easier managing those very tasks. It does not work with everything on the internet but it supports most of the big services most of us use from day to day. Services like twitter, evernote, gmail and rss to mention a few.

The expectation of the service from the user is actually simple. You register your account and then you create your recipe or pick from the free numerous ones on the site.

You choose your trigger event then you choose the action you want performed then you activate the recipe. It would not hurt to test the recipe to be sure it will do what it has been designed to do.

IFTTT is available as an app on the iOS platform as well as on the internet browser. This makes it easy to use everywhere. The only problem I had with it is that when I’m in the offline mode on my phone, I can’t mix any recipe. I guess it does makes sense since it is about the internet of things but it probably is a cool idea to be able to try your hands on some mixtures while you are away from signal coverage areas.

I am still learning how to maximize it but looking at the recipes I have running now, it looks like this is something that will become very big with time.

Google Analytics and Bounce Rates

February 13, 2014 by • Life • Tags: , , , •

It is quite interesting when you read an article on the internet and the author makes reference to some new browser or operating system that is yet to be released as making a hit on their website. If you are like me who am a casual user of the web you are like wow that is so cool, how do they do that? Well there are a few ways to achieve this marvel of technology one is to make sure you go over every single visitor log for your website at the end of each day to know what is really happening.

While it will work I will not advice it as you will end up doing nothing again especially if your website has a lot of visitors. The other way to do it and I dare say a way a lot of people are doing it is to allow Google help you by using Google analytics.

Google analytics is a metrics-measuring tool that is quite capable. It can measure almost everything as far as it has assess to your website.  It knows who visited your website, from where, with what browser, on which operating system, how many pages they visited, how long did they stay on each page and so on the list is almost endless. 
There is another item on that list that really caught my attention when I was reviewing the data from this site; the item is the bounce rate.

Google defines bounce rate as  “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).” When I saw that and looked at my bounce rate it immediately got me thinking about things that I could do to improve the rate for the website.

Looking at website administration from the perspective of the casual user, there is a lot that need to be put in place to ensure that you get the satisfaction of adding value for your effort as well as securing the website and maximizing the feedback opportunity from tools like Google analytics.

So if you run a website and you don’t have such a service to monitor the performance of your website, then you need to open a gmail account and setup your analytics account and link it to your website immediately if possible yesterday.

Take care.

 

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