Month: April 2006

Brian Bailey has a great post on Google guilt.
What is Google guilt?

def. A sense of remorse for bringing people to your blog or website through search engines under false pretenses.

So what does that mean?
Brian explains that as he tracks his blog’s visitors he realizes people probably leave his site saying, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”
Through using common phrases in his titles, he realizes many “can’t always get what you want.”

First, I like to use common phrases to title my posts, or at least I did the first 12-18 months of this blog. I think the technical word for this may be pun. Here’s a sampling…
I wanna be just like you
My post is the first result on Google, above the actual song on Amazon. The subject is A-List bloggers.
More love, more power
A song title that seemed like a brilliant phrase for a post about power outages.
Face it girls, I’m older and have more insurance
Not the title, but still the first result on Google if you’re looking for the line from Fried Green Tomatoes. The subject of the post? The 2004 Republican Convention.

I’d love to just post the whole entry here, but then U2 wouldn’t be able to read it from Brian himself.

Final unofficial runoff results for Ellis County
Final unofficial results in the runoff election are as follows:

Republican:
District Clerk
Melanie Price Reed 1347 58%
Cathy Beer 990 42%

Commissioner, Pct. 2
Bill Dodson 688 60%
Larry Jones (I) 450 40%

Criminal Appeals Judge Place 8
Charles Holcomb 1116 62%
Terry Keel 677 38%

Democrat:
United States Senator
Gene Kelly 50 25%
Barbara Ann Radofsky 153 75%

Lieutenant Governor
Maria Luisa Alvarado 62 31%
Benjamin Z. Grant 139 69%

Thought I’d give you all an update on what we’re now calling, The Living Room.
Our Saturday night fellowship/gathering has put together a vision and plan to begin things with.
We’ve got a new myspace page up (in the works) and we hope to have a blog or website up soon as well.
Here’s our vision: A safe harbor for fellow travellers joined in prayer and fellowship.
Here’s our plan: We will pursue the heart of God through prayer and worship. We will intentionally engage the world around us. And we will be a place to discover who God is and who we are in Him.
So that’s the basics. Come join us Saturday’s at 7 p.m. in Waxahachie. Bring some chips or drinks or snacks and come for a good time.
We’re going to start a study of Ecclesiastes the Saturday after Easter – April 22. So read chapter 1 and come for some great discussion. (I say “we” but I actually have a show that night).

Here are the latest results for early voting in Ellis County.
This is “unofficial” and early voting results only.

Republican
District Clerk
Melanie Price Reed 692 – 66%
Cathy Beer 360 – 34%

Commissioners, Pct 2
Bill Dodson 336 – 60%
Larry Jones (I) 224 – 40%

Criminal Appeals Judge Place 8
Charles Holcomb 492 – 63%
Terry Keel 284 – 37%

Democrat
United States Senator
Gene Kelly 12 – 24%
Barbara Ann Radofsky 37 – 76%

Lietenant Gov
Maria Luisa Alvarado 15 – 31%
Benjamin Z. Grant 34 – 69%

My publisher forwarded the info on the APME Awards today.
Here’s the list of awards the WDL took home over the weekend:

Texas APME Awards, held in Houston:
Class A
Star Breaking News Report of the Year – Waxahachie Daily Light/JoAnn Livingston and Sandra McIntosh
Freedom of Information – (3rd) Waxahachie Daily Light/Jonathan Blundell
Deadline Writing – (2nd) Waxahachie Daily Light/JoAnn Livingston
Short Features – (3rd) Waxahachie Daily Light/Sandra McIntosh
Comment and Criticism – (2nd) Waxahachie Daily Light/Neal White
Business Reporting – (3rd) Waxahachie Daily Light/Jonathan Blundell
Team Page Design – (3rd) Waxahachie Daily Light/Neal White, John Hicks, Shirley Wiese and G.R. Mendoza

I believe Blogger is down, or my Internet connection is not working well this evening. I’ve been out all day workig at the Special Olympics, but Phil gave me an update on his sister earlier today.
For those of you who don’t know, Phil’s sister was involved in a car accident Sunday and was unconscious for a while.
She checked out OK at the hospital Sunday, but went into massive seizures yesterday afternoon.
They feared brain hemorrhaging, but they’ve ruled that out now.
Here’s the update from Phil:

First let me say that I am overwlemed at the number of people praying for Dayna….Words can not express what that means to me and what it is doing for my sister! So thanks SO much to each of you for your love and prayers!
Alright, so the GOOD news is….and I do mean GOOD!!! There is no internal bleeding in her brain and there is no brain hemraging, which is unbelievable since the original speculation was almost certain that is what it was happening! She has been in the hospital since 12 noon yesterday and has not yet awoken from her sleep/dream state…The doctors have not been able to say for sure what is going on, and they are waiting to perform some more extensive tests on her brain! All of her vitals appear to be normal and she is breathing on her own, so she is not in a coma!
However, last night she developed a fever and the doctors have been running tests as think she might possibly have some form of meningitis….
I guess at this point there are just a lot of unanswered questions, and nobody seems to know for sure what is wrong with her! I would ask that you pray for the medical staff as we have had some difficulties getting them to give her the proper treatment and care that she needs!
Things are definetly looking better at this point, but we must never stop praying! Thanks again for your love and support, I am truly amazed and blessed by each of you!

MUCH LOVE

PHIL

I will continue to send more updates as I find out more!

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Please join everyone in praying for Dayna and her quick recovery.