Christine’s Cooking Creations – A new blog
Christine has started a blog. We're currently looking for a good domain (the ideal, "christinescooking.com", is taken). She's going to be cooking some very fun and interesting recipes. And, I must add, she is a good cook. She derides her talented cooking creativity from watching her mother, living in multiple countries, and having superb gourmet intuition.
I invite you to take a look at her blog. Currently, we're hosting Christine's Cooking blog at christine.davidscoville.com. Last night she made a wonderful Pad Thai dish. I was very impressed. Take a look at her site and enjoy her creations.$60,000 in Internet Marketing
My company is giving away $60,000 in internet marketing for any company that has really suffered during the recession. It will be a very exciting contest. We've called it the Ultimate Web Marketing Makeover because it's a makeover for a company's online presence, just like they do on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I had the opportunity to work on our landing page: http://www.seo.com/web-marketing-makeover. Jeff Call came up with the original graphics and I implemented his work into a landing page.
Believe
Who was ever a proponent of faith?
Mahatma GhandiJesus Christ
Mohammed
Walt Disney
Roosevelt
Joan of Arc
Martin Luther
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Apostle Paul
Nelson Mandela
Jan Hus
John Calvin
Handel
Montezuma
Albert Einstein
Web Validation
Name: David
Occupation: webdesigner
Website: thirstyweb.com
While at my day job, I received a call from a nice lady in Glendale the other day. I believe her name was Jasmine or Ashlee …. or Amber. She spoke about a few things that were wrong with some template websites my companying was displaying. I work at a Website development business.
“Do you validate your websites?” She spoke sharply but professionally.
“Do you mean W3 validation?” I stammered.
“Yeah, Do you validate your sites? That’s really important that you do. I looked at your prototypes. They’re not validated!”
It turns out that most of the prototypes at the company I was working for were definitely not validated. Websites receive a better rating when they are validated with the web wide standard set by w3.org. Of course, most bystanders and basic users of the web don’t realize this and consequently, they don’t care. I really wouldn’t care if I was a basic user of the internet.
At that point I replied to the “so-named” Amber from Glendale. “We do validate our websites when we go live with specific clients. The prototype template websites are just for display, and we don’t generally validate them.”
My company, Thirsty Web, does detailed quality control on every website. Validation by W3 is just one of the processes we never fail to complete.
David in the mission
I returned home from a long, 2 year mission in North Carolina on December 23, 2006. Yes, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am a Christian (for those of you who think “mormons” aren’t Christians, follow these steps: 1) Look at the name of the “Mormon Church” i.e. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 2) ask a Mormon what they think about Jesus Christ) I am not perfect or even close to perfect. I do believe in doing good things for people. That’s why I spent time and money to go to North Carolina and help people get on their feet–spiritually. It is a joy to see someone change a bitter long-used frown to a smile–or a look of deep confusion to a look of clear understanding.
I wore the tag that said “Elder Scoville” and the Church title. I wore a suit in 90 degree weather. I rode a bike 10 miles a day to visit people.
At the top of the two-year period in March of 2005 we visited a man named Howard. He loved music and he loved his wife. He was a tall 6’4″ Jamaican man. He had a crazy van that he stickered with his various interests, including Jamaica. We visited him often to see how he was doing. Howard was always courteous and let us in, however, he lacked direction and a worthwhile self-image. He had worked so hard to quit smoking so he could become a member of the church. Unfortunately, we never found him at the Sunday service he always enjoyed.
Howard kindly invited us to a International Festival he was a part of–he took charge of the Jamaican booth. As we showed up we came around a corner behind his back.
“Hey Howard!” I had to yell; his Jamaican music was blaring from 3 foot speakers behind him.
Howard immediately dropped his hand and tried to cover up the lit cigarette in his hand. It was too late, I had already noticed.
“What’s this?” I asked.
Howard looked ashamed and explained that stress and other problems had led him back to the cigarette.
Weeks after that incident we visited Howard even more often. It was easy then. His problem was let out and he realized that we didn’t think of him as any different now that we knew he was smoking again. We just wanted to help.
Over time, Howard changed. His self-image changed. He began to face his challenges.
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I remember Howard from time to time. He showed me that we all have the potential to change and become better people. His story is just one of the many that are compiled in my Mission memory bank.
