Yes, we’ve been zapped. No, it doesn’t mean I’ve had an electrical shock. I’ve now created a new background (with our lovely faces) for people’s mobile phones using a new website that is in beta called GotZapp.com It really cool as this site allows you to create different graphics for your mobile phone. In our case, if you want to pray for us but keep forgetting - just load our Zapp (you can find it here) to your cell phone, mobile phone, or “Handy” (as they call them in Germany) and every time you use your phone, you’ll be reminded to pray for us.

I was in a public bathroom recently and I must say the decorum was quite intriguing. Each of the bathroom stalls had a picture on the door of various people laughing and having a great time. They didn’t seem to have any reason that each of the pictures (which take up the whole door, kinda like wallpaper) were what they were about. One of the pictures was some women in a circle drinking and laughing, another was a couple signing some papers, and the other was a group of party go’ers.

So when I went into one of the stalls, I thought it was interesting that when I sat down on the toilet to do my business, I looked up to see this life size picture of a couple staring at me - laughing. I then had to use another stall that had a picture that just wasn’t as intimidating.

Mondays are a special day for me. Every Monday I receive my web reports. These reports tell me how many people have come to my website, the country that they connected from, what phrases they used in the search engines to find me or what links on other websites people used to get to mine. I get all sorts of information from these reports however there is something I don’t get:

Who exactly are the people who stop by my website?

I’d love to know more about those of you that stop by (whether I know you in person or in the virtual world or if we are complete strangers).

Please leave me a comment telling me more about you. Thanks.

We are currently working diligently on putting together what we call an “eLearning Center” solution. In just a couple of weeks, a few of us eDOT’ers are going to be in Ukraine to install our first all Microsoft Windows based computer center. The problem is that we don’t have everything working together the way we want it. But we’ll get there. The fun part will be that we will be doing our first install in Russian (I have yet to learn Russia, but at least Microsoft puts the same icons and places everything pretty much in the same place when they do different localizations).

Anyway, all this to say that we found (through eDOT’er Andrew) this great way of filtering your content and reporting on where people are going that use your Internet connection. It’s called OpenDNS.

Now many of you are probably wondering what DNS is. Well, to use this free service you don’t have to know what it is but if you do desire to know - DNS is Dynamic Name System which is when you type in “Google.com” that your computer figures out to go to the IP address 72.14.207.99 (kinda like an Internet Server’s phone number) to view that website.

While this way of doing content filtering is not 100% perfect (none of them are other than just not going online), it is effective and easy to set up. And best of all, it’s free!

So if you are a person that just doesn’t want to accidentally see some of the stuff that is in the Internet world, or don’t want to be tempted by it, maintain a computer center or small office, or have a kids in the house that you want to help protect their innocence - consider setting up OpenDNS on your computers and networks.

In an effort to draw more people here (other that all of you who are searching for better ways to grow roses), I have signed up with the free service called BlogRush. I’m just testing it out right now so we’ll see how it goes. For everyone that hits my website, my website feed is then shown up in somebody else’s blog inside the BlogRush box (as seen to the lower right) that is a part of a similar category. Then there’s a little bit of a pyramid scheme where if I refer people to using BlogRush on their blogs, then I (as well as the owner of the blog) get shows on the BlogRush. And then their referrals and their referrals, and so on and so one. Well, you get the picture.

If you are interested in using BlogRush, then click on this link