Letters from Lilongwe

The purpose of hosting this blog is to give my mind the ability to release all that clogs it during the day.  After a day of studying and being active my mind needs a restful time to reflect.  This blog as my required English 1102 blog before is a great place to throw ideas and thoughts.  Hello Word All is Good in NC

THIS IS NOT A FILLER POST. IT IS RELATED AND INTERESTS ME. Today while reading something on the internet I came across an article outlining the attacks of a group of hackers who call themselves Anonymous. I have heard of this group before because they attacked the Church of Scientology causing there website to go down due to Distributed Denial of Service attacks. These DDOS attacks have been used by the group to protest other groups and even governments. The latest activity of the group is over the arrest of J.Assange the founder of Wikileaks. After the arrest the Wikileaks page was attacked by a similar DDOS attacked that was performed presumably by the US government over the recent release of sensitive Cables. Therefore Anonymous struck back at several companies had pulled financial support of Wikileaks. Called "Operation Payback" this group of global hackers have been using Facebook, Twitter and other social network sites to spread the message of which site to at...

As I worked for only a little under one hour hunger and lack of liquid was causing my stomach to yell. Therefore I decided the vending machine was only a couple of paces away and would not miss a Minute Maid Lemonade. When I got up from this 30+ inch screen I nearly forgot where I was in the Library and how to get to the other side of the commons. This was a very weird experience but now its time to get back into the web-page creating mode. Over and out from LEC

A pilot program for the newly announced Chrome laptop is open to the public. Therefore I have placed my name into the program just to see what happens. They ask certain questions in the application process and here are my responses. All if good in Glenn, now onto some food!!

I started working on my webpage around the time the assignment was announced and would say I have invested around 15-20 hours in its development. Wix.com is a simple easy to use drag-and-drop service to create polished flash based webpages. It has been actually very fun creating the page because its a learning experience. The information that fills each page was cultivated from our discussions and readings during the year. While writing I just tried to tie the symbolism that my illustrative essay presented and the content that we have focused on during the semester. Please read over the not quite finished page and give some feedback. http://www.wix.com/paulshackelford/themask Thanks All if good on the 2nd floor of the Library.

Tonight I am in the airport getting ready to fly back to Atlanta. While working on school work on my computer I took a short break. Looking around at everyone around me in there own personal work. Couples chatting over a magazines. A teenage girl... Well they just delayed my flight another 30min. That girl keeps talking excessively fast and using "like" way to many times each sentence in her phone conversation. Thank the lord her call just got dropped, deng she just called them back. Poor lady at the register just found out she was going to no make her connecting flight in ATL. People are fat, not with a "PH", I look around and only see two or three people that don't have large pockets of fat all over there bodies. What have we come to as a society where we cant even maintain our physical health. Myself included we have gained weight at a rapid rate because of our overindulgent society. We just want a little bit more of everything. More money, more ...

Faith vs Reason as the mode to come to your conclusion or understanding. This was very common theme of the presentations. Some presenters fell heavily towards the division of faith and reason because faith has little proof and reason is ingrained in proof. While some presenters held my opinion that faith is based in reason and when applying a faith based approach you find reason in the argument. I believe that the Bible is proof Jesus and the fact that he died and raised again after three days. Without this reason based conclusion there is no bases to my faith. Therefore I approach the questions of faith with a logical comprehension. This explains why certain verses of the Bible that are either hard to understand or contradict each other are difficult to explain. When these topics are confronted I take a faith approach with the understanding that some ideas in faith are beyond logical comprehension. Thus I must follow the word of the lord and know that somethings are only reve...