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Or what man, having ten Bibles, if he loses one, does not turn on the light and do a visual sweep of the room and seek diligently until he finds it?  And when he has found it, he calls his wife, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found the Bible which I had lost."

-- Adapted from Luke 15

I left my favorite Bible at a meeting just before CIY (a month ago).  I called the church and the lady said that I should ask the person who led the meeting.  I asked him yesterday and he said he had not picked it up, but that there is a stack of Bibles in the room.

So, I go to the room, turn on the light, and see the Bibles.  Mine is not among them.  On my way out, I decided to check some cabinets, and voila, there it is under some papers!  I am so happy.

This is my NASB Bible.  I have many NIV's, but I prefer to memorize from the NASB since it is more literal.  I have been really upset that I could not find it.  On top of that, it was the one year anniversary gift from my wife.

Rejoice with me, for I have found the Bible which I had lost!

I have been working for the past month on bringing the Hillsborough Property Appraiser's website from Perl/Informix to ASP.NET/SQL.  It finally went live today without a hitch.  And it is screaming fast!

Also, we did a major cleanup effort to make the site standard compliant.  The only validation errors I have seen are the use of the "embed" tag to support flash animation.  A necessary evil in as much as it must support Firefox browsers.

here is a link

That's right, we went for the ultrasound today and discovered what was true all along: we are having a boy!

It is what we were hoping for, and it was against most of the predictions.

I honor of this new information, I have reskinned my website (temporarily).

I separated the foreground and background.  Using Flash, I am able to move them independently.

Using the parallax effect, the zoom-out is more realistic.  Amanda changes faster than the door changes because she is closer to the camera.

I downloaded Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010.  The editor is WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) based, rather than the typical WinForms based.  This means that is has a more polished interface and is able to do fancy graphic transformations.  To be completely honest, I don't get the point.  I guess it is because Microsoft wants to phase out the WinForms model eventually.  The performance is good though, so there isn't much to compain about.

From what I have read, 2010 is supposed to be much better behind the scenes.  I haven't seen any differences yet though.  The .NET Framework v4.0 is supposed to have most of the magik.