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December 27, 2008 by kevinstilley

Google Planet, by Randall Stross

Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, by Randall E. Stross

According to my StrengthsFinder 2.0 results, I am a collector of information. According to my wife, I am a packrat. So it should not come as a surprise that I would be fascinated by a book about Google. whose stated goal is “to organize all the world’s information.”

Stross has managed to weave together a tale that is part biography and part techno-thriller. (If they ever do a modern remake of Clint Eastwood’s movie A Fist Full of Dollars, they can put Microsoft and Yahoo at opposite ends of the street and let Google play the “Man with No Name” Eastwood character.) After listening to this audio book twice I now think differently about blogging, searching the net for information, relationships, my private information, and what kind of plans for the future I can realistically make

I thoroughly enjoyed the audio book version of Planet Google, found it to be eye-opening, and have no hestitation to recommend it to you. However, I don’t believe that I would have been as absorbed by the print version, so readers beware.

December 25, 2008 by kevinstilley

A Stilley Family Christmas 2008

A few pictures from Stilley family Christmas 2008. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view . . .

Picking out the Christmas tree

Stilleys from the Christmas hood

Reindeer fly. What about babies?

Smiles that outshine the tree lights

Christmas Hugs

Spiderman

Santa baby

Ready to go under the tree

What

A Christmas group hug

The first gift of Christmas

To record future Christmasai

Wii say Merry Christmas

Indiana Jones battles Prince Caspian and the Power Rangers

Hugs - The best Christmas present

No Christmas disappointment

NICU = Neonativity Intensive Christmas Unit

Measuring Christmas by the mess

December 23, 2008 by kevinstilley

Kevin Stilley Dot Com Logo

My ten year old son has been offering to work with me on developing a better Kevin Stilley Dot Com logo. There really isn’t any downside to accepting his offer. It couldn’t get any worse than what I have right now, right?

After reading today about Pepsi’s new logo I think I had better accept my son’s offer pronto. He is offering to help me for free, while Pepsi spent more than $1 million developing their new logo (and they are expecting to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more to implement it).

Please don’t tell my son about this, or he might want to renegotiate his contract.

December 23, 2008 by kevinstilley

Faculty Bookmarks

Just backing up my bookmarks for theology and philosophy faculty before making the transition between AnnotatedBookmarks.info and AnnotatedBookmarks.com . . .

Faculty

December 19, 2008 by kevinstilley

Verna Stilley

When my mother passed away a couple of months ago, people expressed their love and sympathy in a variety of ways. The following is a poem written by a family friend Utah Humphrey.

Verna Stilley
10-21-08

The road God gave you was a very steep climb,
But you bravely went forward day by day.
Clyde was the hero ministering to you
Being there to help you in the part he would play.

Now the long journey has come to an end
And on Earth you won’t suffer any more.
In Heave you are finally free at last
With this freedom you finally can soar.

I remember the years you became my friend
With lots of laughter I still can behold.
The tears I shed now will soon be gone
As I ponder your life as I saw it unfold.

Poor Clyde was often the key to your stories
And his face would turn red as he grinned.
In the room you would have everyone laughing
And through the years you did it again and again.

Leach and Cardin one entered a contest
And when it was over Leach had won.
We met at the camp grounds at GLBA
To fellowship and have lots of fun..

You were the pitcher when we played softball
And I don’t remember who won or who lost.
Both churches had added people to Sunday School
Without either group adding up th ecost.

The years seemed to pass by much too quickly
And retirement years had finally come about.
The price you paid in the last several years
Didn’t carry a lot of laughter or clout.

Please enjoy Heaven and the freedom you have.
We will all be joining you in just a little while.
I wished we could look into Heaven and see you now
With a life filled with laughter and a beautiful smile.

By faith we must keep walking onward toward Heaven
Knowing life down here for us is not through …
Sometimes we will pause during our journey
And when we do we’ll be thinking of you.

Good bye precious friend for just a while longer
And enjoy your new life absolutely free from pain.
We will see you tomorrow on Heaven’s bright shore
Where there’ll be plenty of sunshine without rain.

A friend in Christ,

Utah Humphrey

April 13, 2007 by kevinstilley

What’s in a name? That which we call a blog By any other word would read as sweet.

Elliott Back has researched 33,810 blogs to see what he could discover about the manner in which people name their blogs. He has come to some interesting conclusions which can be found HERE.

Personally I have changed my blog name twice. I started out with Righteous Judgement and planned on focusing my attention on issues of Truth (right thinking) and Righteousness (right relationship). However, with time I opted for a more personal (frivolous) approach, but one that attempted to maintain a spiritual dimension. So, I changed the name to one that included some equivoque, Silver and Gold Have I None. This name was too long to fit in sidebars, and was not as descriptive has I had hoped. So, about three months ago when I obtained my own domain name and left behind the generic blogger template, I changed the name once again to its present Encyclopedia Kevinannica.

For years I kept binders in my office in which I inserted alphabetically anything that I thought I might need access to in the future (emails, technical instructions, directives, contact information, etc.). It was a compendium of information as variegated as the items that Carrot Top pulls from his trunk. However, the details found in those binders, my Encyclopedia Kevinannica, was a treasure house when an occasion arose that I needed two or three year old information. When I left Borders Books back in 2001 I left behind twenty-six volumes of Encyclopedia Kevinannica.

I know what you are thinking — you wonder why I did not just use vertical files. Well, I am one of those people that believe that words should be found between covers on a shelf, not crammed in a drawer.

So, the new Encyclopedia Kevinannica blog is a compendium of information. Information that I find interesting. Information about God. Information about my family. Information about our culture. Information about books. Information ….

The information is not just raw data, it comes with a perspective attached — my perspective. It is not scientia, but hopefully sapientia. And, I appreciate those of you who swing by here from time to time to read my thoughts, and sometimes even comment on them.

Now, back to Back. Among his many other findings, Elliott Back lists the following 100 most frequently used words in the 33,810 blogs surveyed. He posted this information a little over two years ago, so I am sure that there would be some changes given the dynamic nature of blogging. Nevertheless, I am intrigued

blog
life
weblog
world
from
journal
news
thoughts
with
daily
girl
mind
what
this
diary
musings
online
about
just
ramblings
random
your
adult
love
content
little
that
home
blue
time
marketing
blogs
right
digital
things
city
rants
internet
like
free
journey
words
business
more
notes
place
real
house
american
view
stuff
music
black
chronicles
tales
times
diario
dreams
another
adventures
inside
corner
other
photoblog
confessions
book
living
soul
head
heart
search
truth
live
reality
good
brain
here
vida
geek
through
eyes
thought
blogging
politics
personal
page
site
days
dream
john
thinking
have
left
road
something
lost
project
into
media
where
design
conservative
star
mundo

How did your blog come by its present title?