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It’s Been Awhile

It’s been so long since I’ve taken foot on theparagon.ORG soil that I almost forgot that I even had a website.

As always life has been keeping this old kid busy. I’m settling down with certain things in my life while getting ready to burst in others. I’d have to say I’m rather happy with how things are.

In other news - Evolt.org published another one of my short articles on Voice Over Web. Same article posted below this one.

I’m also learning quite a bit about Mac OSX administration, along with some AppleScript. I wrote my first little program that can automatically upload a file to a server when I need it too. Nothin fancy yet but learning non-the-less.

A New Interest

From a scene other than that of computers in my life - I’ve taken quite a fancy to this book called, “Islam and the Jews” - The Unfinished Battle after hearing the author speak last Sunday. Mark A. Gabriel, PH.D. is an amazing guy that has a very contagious story.

He memorized the Quran by the age of twelve with much encouragement from his Muslim family in Egypt. His entire childhood education was spent in Muslim schools, and he earned a doctorate degree in Islamic history and culture from Al-Azhar University, the school that is the source of spiritual authority for the Islamic world. After graduating 2nd in his class of 6,000 he became a University Muslim teacher for many years.

Through quit an amazing story of being tortured by the Egyptian government, excommunicated from both family and country, and wandering through the Sahara Desert he explains how after 40 years he became a Christian.

He goes in great detail explaining what Muslims believe and why they show so much hatred toward the Jews and their culture.

I might write up a little essay after I finish the book but right now I’m just caught up in what he is saying. I wish I could buy you all the book.

So other than those things, not much else is different with my life.

posted on March 30, 2003 | 2:26 AM EST