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Day: March 15, 2007

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The bloggers toolbox

Mark, of Weblog Tools Collection, posted his list of indispensable blogging tools in What’s in My Blogging Toolkit?.

Here’s my list of primary tools for blogging:

  • WordPress – Code is Poetry because it doesn’t get in the way of content. I started with Blogger and dabbled with Movable Type and both are ok depending on where you are. I wanted something that was robust, scalable, and worked with me. WordPress does it.
  • Automattic Tools – The sidebar widgets plugin and Akismet. Don’t use WordPress without them.
  • Firefox – I use it on the Macs and on my Windows machines. I’ve used it on Linux. It works, it is smooth and nothing in the interface is a jumble of jargonized fluff. Tabs galore, news, E-mail, WP Admin, Poland, and consistent spell checking in one.
  • IE – because I have to use it to use phpMyAdmin. The version provided my my host (Yahoo!) doesn’t seem to play well with Firefox. Tonight I upgraded phpMyAdmin myself (from 2.6.3-pl1 to 2.10.0.2) because I got really annoyed after writing this.
  • phpMyAdmin – for all the back-end database stuff.
  • Google for everything – I use GMail for all my E-mail needs (including the GMail for mobile applications Java app). I have a countless number of E-mail addresses all feeding into one place. I use Calendar, Translate, Analytics, a personalized Google homepage, and all of Google’s varied search functionality.
  • Netvibes – All my RSS, newsfeeds, bookmarks, blog searches, and assorted other knickknacks all in one place.
  • MS Office Picture Manager – for simple image compression and resizing as well as a few image adjustment tools that work well for me.
  • Weblog Tools Collection – where else would I find great info on new plugins and themes. Really, Mark provides a great rundown of the latest in an quick, easy to digest format.
  • Wikipedia – controversy aside over a few hacked articles, it provides lots of good info if you are unclear on something.
  • Firebug – checking out what I’ve messed up.
  • Powered by Faith – that’s what the blog is supposed to be about. While my faith is certainly imperfect and I don’t always live up to the ideals of my faith, I still need to proclaim its saving power and rely upon it for glimpses into the sublime.
PNCC,

The Sacrament of Matrimony in the PNCC

The Polish National Catholic Church website has posted The Sacrament of Matrimony in the Polish National Catholic Church (PDF document) which was Presented to the XXI General Synod and which was accepted unanimously by the Polish National Catholic Church Doctrine Commission during their meeting on September 4, 2002.

The paper covers the following:

  • Matrimony —“ A Sacrament
  • The Priest is the Minister of the Sacrament
  • Administration of the Sacrament of Matrimony
  • Ceremonies
  • Annulment, Dissolution and Divorce
  • The Church Fathers and Dissolution of Marriage
  • Impediments to Marriage —“ Grounds for Annulment or Dissolution
  • Permission to Remarry
  • Procedures for an Annulment or Dissolution of a Marriage
  • Matrimonial Commission

I highly recommend this paper to anyone interested in the PNC Church’s understanding of matrimony and its Doctrine on the Sacrament of Matrimony.

Poland - Polish - Polonia,

Poland’s President to Open International Pro-Family Conference

From Christian Newswire:

Allan Carlson, founder and chairman of The World Congress of Families, announced today that Polish President Lech Kaczynski will give the opening address at World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw, May 11-13.

Poland’s president has also agreed to serve as Honorary Patron of the Congress, which is expected to bring more than 3,500 pro-family leaders, activists, scholars and parliamentarians to Warsaw in May.

Carlson expressed his delight with Kaczynski’s involvement. “We are honored to have President Kaczynski as the keynote speaker and Patron of the Congress,” Carlson declared. “His well-known commitment to the family is very much in keeping with the theme of World Congress of Families IV —“ Beyond Demographic Winter: The Natural Family and the Springtime for Nations.”

President Kaczynski has been critical of gay activism, recently noting that if the homosexual “approach to sexual life were to be promoted on a grand scale, the human race would disappear.”

Kaczynski has also expressed concern about falling birthrates across Europe and voiced strong support for religious values and the natural family.

Kaczynski assumed the office of President on December 23, 2005. In the 1970s, he was active in the Anti-Communist Workers’ Defense Committee, served as an advisor to the Solidarity movement, and later became an advisor to Poland’s first democratic president, Lech Walesa. In 2001, Kaczynski became Minister of Justice and was elected mayor of Warsaw in 2002. President Kaczynski is one of the founders of the governing Law and Justice Party.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of World Congress of Families. Past Congresses have been held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999) and Mexico City (2004). The Mexico City Congress featured remarks by Martha Sahagun de Fox, then First Lady of Mexico.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, and leaders that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society. The WCF (with its headquarters in Rockford, IL) was founded by Allan Carlson, president of The Howard Center, in 1997. To date, there have been three World Congresses of Families —“ Prague (1997), Geneva (1999) and Mexico City (2004). WCF IV will be in Warsaw, Poland, May 11- 13, 2007.

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