New Photos

I've updated the March and created an April gallery. Links below.

March 2007

April 2007

Masons and Mormons

I thought that this was an interesting article preemptively responding to Dan Brown's upcoming book. While it's unknown if the LDS Church will even be featured in a prominent fashion (or at all) in the book, it's interesting that due to Brown's previous controversial look at Catholics, some LDS faithful are going on the early offense. On the political side, it'll be interesting to see if this plays into the Republican primary and Mitt Romney's chances.

http://www.ldsmag.com/books/070326masons.html

For more comments on The Solomon Key, check out Wikipedia.

A few blog posts

First for the American Idol fans out there...

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/22/who-is-idols-crying-girl-and-where-did-she-come-from/

Jennifer and I were some of those wondering about the crying girl. It was interesting how much time they spent on her and that they gave her tickets to the live show because she cried in the dress rehearsal. I wonder if this will inspire a host of "copy cats" in hopes of getting on TV.

This other post is completely unrelated. It's a system similar to Screen Crayons that was developed by Trent Taufer and Dr. Olsen in the lab where I worked as a graduate student at BYU. This only works on websites through FireFox but seems to be interesting technology. The total experience is less rich and complete than Screen Crayons (at least from the video) but the marking technology could be used to complement some of the ideas included in Screen Crayons.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03/22/make-a-note-on-any-website-with-firedoodle/

2007 Football Schedule

The 2007 Football schedule is here!

http://truecougars.com/2007/03/2007-football-schedule.html

True Cougars

For the few of you that read this blog, I just wanted to mention a couple of things about the right hand column.

First is the "blogroll". This is a list of other blogs, including a couple others that I've been writing. One is "True Cougars" which is my blog on BYU Sports, primarily BYU Football. Another is my "Unofficial Footnote Blog" which is my blog on content that I've found on the footnote.com site. This is my place to put links to interesting documents and story pages that I find. The other blogs are those of friends along with the Official Footnote Blog.

Second is "links" which are other sites that are interesting. Next is a list of the most recent Web Galleries that I've posted to. My footnote profile is next which shows the annotations that I've made on the site.

The last one that I want to talk about is the Shared Blog Items. This is a feed from Google Reader. One of the features of Google Reader is to mark items as "shared" and create and RSS feed which that can then be fed into Blogger. This is a pretty cool feature as it allows me to share some of the blog posts that I've found without having to email them to people or create my own blog entries about them. I hope that some of them are useful or interesting to some of you.