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| Blogger post albums: Who knew, right? |
Of Things That Matter Most, April 2011 General Conference.Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia—even during times of stress and fatigue. Because they unnecessarily complicate their lives, they often feel increased frustration, diminished joy, and too little sense of meaning in their lives.It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.
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| Remembering those who gave their lives. |
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| Tom Brokaw and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will air a special 9/11 broadcast, today. |
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| Extension, app, process, plugin? What is Web Worker? |
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| File manager gets, well, a file cabinet icon (rather than the empty box logo) |
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| The bookmark manager now has (or has had, and I'm just finally noticing it) a link in the Bookmarks section of the New Tab page |
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| Extensions are now included in and redirected to the settings page, with a fun makeover, recently sighted by Dinu Correction: Wrench>Tools>Extensions navigates to the old page, rather than this one -- I assume this will change |
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| Synced tabs and search engines are almost here! (Well, technically, they are here, as flags) |
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| Lazy Background Pages -- some extensions can be prevented from running until they are called upon -- cool Update: I tried this out and it seems to disable LastPass and possibly other extensions, too: you might want to wait for this one |
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| Is the add/remove URL headers/footers new to print preview, or just new to me? |
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| Who knew my Real Estate Transactions notes could look so good? |
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| Ah, spreadsheet print preview! |
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| Omnibox History Sync, now available |
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| Many have blamed moral decay for the recent riots in the UK |
60% had a previous criminal record, and 25% belonged to gangs.
This was the bursting of a dam of potential trouble that has been building for years. The collapse of families and communities leaves in its wake unsocialized young people, deprived of parental care, who on average—and yes, there are exceptions—do worse than their peers at school, are more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse, less likely to find stable employment and more likely to land up in jail.
The truth is, it is not their fault. They are the victims of the tsunami of wishful thinking that washed across the West saying that you can have sex without the responsibility of marriage, children without the responsibility of parenthood, social order without the responsibility of citizenship, liberty without the responsibility of morality and self-esteem without the responsibility of work and earned achievement.Indeed, I'm unsure whether many would agree there even is an objective morality, anymore. On the other hand, there used to be. Consider, for example, the words of President Thomas S. Monson, 84:
We have come to the earth in troubled times. The moral compass of the masses has gradually shifted to an “almost anything goes” position.
I’ve lived long enough to have witnessed much of the metamorphosis of society’s morals. Where once the standards of the Church and the standards of society were mostly compatible, now there is a wide chasm between us, and it’s growing ever wider. (Priesthood Power, April 2011 General Conference.)So what is the solution to this moral decay and ever widening chasm? According to Lord Sacks, a return to religion. According to British Prime Minister David Cameron, and as I understand it, a return to families.
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| The family must be the focus of our efforts to reverse moral decay |
Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.
WE CALL UPON responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society. (The Family: A Proclamation to the World.)So, what can you and I do to reverse moral decay, in promoting the family as the fundamental unit of society? We can vote, we can write letters to the editor, we can blog, we can tweet, we can email, we can shut off the vulgarity and violence found on TV, the Internet, and countless movies. We can stand up and say, "enough is enough, and this is where I draw a moral line in the sand that I refuse to cross."
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| Who knew a disabled key could accomplish so much? |
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| I love that bolt of lightning graphic |
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| And we all want to be more green, right? |
Their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. (2 Nephi 12:8.)I am amazed and saddened with how much we, as humans, currently glory in our own intelligence and learning, often, to the point of extolling ourselves for how much more advanced we are than our lowly forebears.
scriptural ignorance [previously] abounded because people lacked access to the Bible, especially in a language they could understand. Today the Bible and other scripture are readily at hand, yet there is a growing scriptural illiteracy because people will not open the books. Consequently they have forgotten things their grandparents knew.I am so grateful for William Tyndale and other scriptural martyrs, who made it possible for us to have (in English) the volumes of scripture we so often take for granted, today. What a marvelous blessing the scriptures have been in my life.
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| The app launches the Google Talk extension. |
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| Here's the extension. |
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| Behold! There is a keyboard shortcut for caps lock (other than the caps lock key) -- look at the top-right. |
The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but The Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ.And so it does.
—Official Church Statement on the Book of Mormon Musical
And now, behold, I will testify unto you of myself that these things are true. Behold, I say unto you, that I do know that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon him the transgressions of his people, and that he shall atone for the sins of the world; for the Lord God hath spoken it. (Alma 34:8)
And I said unto him: Believest thou the scriptures? And he said, Yea. And I said unto him: Then ye do not understand them; for they truly testify of Christ. Behold, I say unto you that none of the prophets have written, nor prophesied, save they have spoken concerning this Christ. (Jacob 7:10-11)I add my testimony to those of Amulek, Jacob, and so many Book of Mormon prophets that Jesus is the Christ, the One sent to suffer and atone for our sins. I also testify that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and another testament of Jesus Christ. I invite you to gain this own witness for yourself, by following the instructions given in Moroni 10:3-5. I add my promise to Moroni's that if you will ask God with a sincere heart and real intent -- meaning you are willing to act on the answer you receive -- you will come to know by the power of the Holy Ghost that the Book of Mormon is true.
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| How many times has 1 Nephi 1:20 been quoted, by whom, and what did he/she have to say about it? |
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| I especially recommend reading the BoM Student Manual in Google Chrome, for fast loading. |
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| Keep track of your studies with My Study Notebook |
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| My friendly red bookmark helps me get back to where I left off in my reading. |
