Hypothetical question for the Christians out there:

Is 1 person converted to Christianity worth the cost of turning away 1 other person forever because of the tactics used?

Example: If you go door-to-door witnessing to people, and you are able to convert 1 person to Christianity, but... you also cause 1 person to never want to become a Christian because they are fed up with Chrisitans coming door-to-door, is it worth it?

More or less, is a person saved worth a person lost forever as a result of you?

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Thanks to everyone that made my birthday special... Thanks for all the notes, cards, emails, messages, etc... And a special thanks to those that were able to endulge at the Cheesecake Factory...

And Rach totally made it the best day ever...

Fortunately, this birthday turned out much better than many previous ones...


photo from rachael

yummmm... 

Quick Question
What are you passionate about?

I know that the performance of PhuseBox lately has been horrible... I have tried to make a few changes to speed things up. I think I have succeeded for the most part... Let me know if you see significant speed problems anymore.

Of course, many have noticed that one of the things that has changed is the notification in the top bar. I am working to get this functioning again without sacrificing site performance, so just hold tight.

On a related topic, I am still hacking away at the new PhuseBox site. Stay tuned.

I decided to modify the notification bar at the top of the site for purposes of speed. The site should load much quicker now.

This change should be temporary, as I know many users check if they have new remarks or friend content by looking at the top bar.

Check out the Passion Podcast on PodPoint... They just posted a new episode with Chris Tomlin.

Anyone else think that Fox's slogan should be, "viewer descretion is advised?"

I really like it when I pull up behind a van with one of those flip-down movie screens. It keeps me entertained while I sit in traffic.

*Jimmy Stewart voice*

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!

Comcast recently overhauled their website with a very easy-to-use interface... very web 2.0ish.

I thought, "Awesome... here is a company that finally gets that you do not need to try to push every product you offer all on one page... simple, and easy to use. Very nice." Comcast was looking great to me.

Well, if only Comcast's internal accounts system was overhuled in the same process. It seems to me that all energy was spent rebuilding the site and not enough was put into connecting the site to the account management system.

Instead of making manual payments every month, I decided to register for the automatic bank draft on my Comcast account. Easy enough, right? The no-thinking-automatic-withdraw thing was appealing to me. The thing is that I never got any sort of confirmation. Slightly confused, I just accepted that the payment was going to go through, and probably at the end of the month. So I waited.

Bad decision.

The payment did not go through that month. And I did not make a manual payment. So, even though I registered for the automatic online payment, now I was stuck with my next month's bill being twice as much and, in addition, a nice late fee.

I tend to be understanding in situations like these, so I just thought... ok, fair enough. And the next month, in order to escape from the same thing happening, I decided to make a manual online payment in the amount of almost $300 for two months of service, assuming that this payment would overide the automatic payment. Good, I thought. Next month I will not have to deal with this.

Wrong.

It turns out that Comcat's account system does not automatically flag your account as PAID. I found a nice second payment AUTOMATICALLY drafted at the end of the month.

Total taken by Comcast in one month: $600. ((month 1 + month 2)*2)

Luckily I was able to get Comcast to reverse the automatic payment, but not before it did some damage to my bank account.

Moral of the story: 1. don't trust automatic online payment systems and 2. don't use Comcast

I say number 2 but in reality, they have a monopoly in my area, but that is a whole other blog post. Thus, I will continue to use Comcast, but I will be making manual payments from now on after completely shuting off the automatic draft.

Unfortunately, Comcast does not look too good to me anymore.

Frustrating. 

QUESTION 14:
What other websites or services do you belong to?

for example: myspace, facebook, xanga, flickr, digg, del.icio.us, yahoo, etc.

* Please do not use this entry to link to all your other pages. I am just curious which services you use. Thanks!

Again, thanks to everyone that has been giving their input to the questions I have posted.

QUESTION 13
How did you first find out about PhuseBox? Did you see a link on a friend's site? Did you come across it on the internet? Did a friend tell you about it? etc.

Thanks!

QUESTION 12:
Do you have a mobile phone? If so, would you use a feature that allowed you to upload pictures and video from your phone directly to your PhuseBox?

go do something fun.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgving!

QUESTION 11:
If you could change one thing about the profiles on PhuseBox, what would it be?

This would include how your info is displayed, the way you can click on things in the profile, the way music, movies, etc are listed... and such.

Thanks!

If you have nothing better to do, Add Sophia as Your Friend.

I hope every one is enjoying the "giving-of-the-thanks" day...

So, 50 points to whoever can tell me who first declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday.... and extra 20 points if you can tell me what year. - careful. it is tricky...

Ok, so, the photo manager is going to be one of my main foci as I rebuild PhuseBox from the ground up... Look forward to an easier way to upload photos and better organization for them. And that leads me into my question...

QUESTION 10
If you could change only one thing about the photo sharing system on PhuseBox, what would it be?

This includes uploading photos, how they are viewed on the screen, photo requests, photo information, how easy/hard it is to edit them, etc...

I will not be posting any more questions until after Thanksgiving "break." Until then, if you did not answer one of the previous questions, grab a plate of turkey and go back and help me out by answering some questions...

Thanks to everyone helping out!

QUESTION 9:
If you could change just one thing about the "friending" system on PhuseBox, what would it be?

this includes how your/other user's friends are displayed, added, requested, etc.

Hope everyone had a great weekend... I will dive back into a new round of questions... The new Phusebox site is coming along...

QUESTION 8:
If you could make one thing better about the blogging system on PhuseBox, what would it be?

The blogging system includes everything from the blog manager to creating a new blog post, adding photos, and how it appears on your PhuseBox page, etc.

Please try not to say phrases that start or end with, "like such and such other site.com..." Like I said, my goal is not to replicate other sites.

Thanks again for all your help!

Again, thanks for everyone's responses on the previous questions, and yes, these questions are designed to help the structure of the new PhuseBox site.

Today, you can take a break from the questions. Simply tell me a fact about you... strange or ordinary.

I will be back on Monday with a new round of questions focusing on improving PhuseBox.

Hope you have a great weekend!

QUESTION 7:
On a scale from 1 to 10, where you would rate how important it is to you to update your blog on a regular basis?

QUESTION 6:
How often do you check your PhuseBox? And when do you check it? Do you check it when you are bored? When you have a free minute? etc...

And congrats on all the people that guessed on the triva question correctly yesterday...