Flag Day - 2014

If there are unwritten rules that don't make sense ... challenge them and see if ... [you] can change them.
(after Dr. Nancy Andrews in Three Minutes A Day, by The Christophers, Vol. 44, 20 March)
14 July 2014

What Me Worry?

In this land of freedom, ... [many of us] jealously guard our right to do as we please; we [want to] keep the rules few and simple. Yet confronted by school shootings and terrorist attacks, promiscuity and irresponsible parents, lying politicians and greedy evangelists, ... [others] plead for more standards, tougher laws, real accountability. ... In such an environment, discussion of laws and standards conjures up anxiety, confusion, frustration, resignation or anger. (J. Marshall Jenkins in The Upper Room Disciplines - 2003, 13 September) 26 February 2013

Game Of Life

"You're playing on the court of life.  Hopefully you have come to win!" 
(From a sermon by Dr. Barbara King of Hillsdale Chapel in Atlanta, Georgia.)

The rules of the game of life are quite simple.

• Always tell the truth.
• Never live in fear of anything or anyone.
• Be conscious of what you are thinking so that you can always think positively.
• Do everything that you do for the love of doing it.

(All of the above from Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 12 August)
12 August 2012

Goal Of Life

Iyanla Vanzant

The goal of life is not to win.  
It is to play the game with love.
The rules of the game are:

• Remind yourself of the rules,
• The game of life is rigged in your favor,
• Have a strong desire to win,
• Believe that you are worthy of winning,
• Have faith that you will win,
• Go for the love and have fun while you are doing it,
• There really are no points to count,
• Do not keep score,
• Play the game believing you cannot lose,
• Play the game for the love of it,
• The fact that you are here means you have already won the most important race,
• There are angels playing on your side, cooperate with them,
• The team you were born into really doesn't matter,
• As long as you are alive, never believe the game is over,
• There is only one coach for all the teams in life, His name is God,
• The coach has been cited for his consistent winning record.
• Listen to your coach because with Him you are assured victory.

(after Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 27 March) 29 March 2012

Quality Of Life

The quality of our life isn't measured by our degrees or possessions but by our behavior.  (Casey and Vanceburg, The Promise Of A New Day, 23 July)

On this day I will choose a project I have not devoted my entire attention to and attend to it.  (Eric V. Copage, Black Pearls, 3 August)

Despair can seem the only realistic response to problems that are too deeply rooted or long-standing.  (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 5 June)

It would be a great thing to die knowing that we had never in our lives transgressed the rules of honor and of honesty in the race of life.  (William Barclay, The Letters To Timothy, p. 242)

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I'm test driving a new Blogger editor today.  I hope it will fix a couple of problems I noticed in the past.  Sometimes I couldn't change the font color and sometimes I couldn't added new labels. Here's a test of changing font size and color.


Mr. Dickie
1 September 2011

Horizontal Rules in Color

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cock-sure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass? (Michel de Montaigne in The Book Of Choices by Mike Magee, M.D., p. 231)

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I spent two or three days trying to understand how to draw horizontal rules in red, blue and black using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Right now I have at least a half dozen books available from my own collection and the library. None of them described how to do this. I also tried looking at some of the sample code available online. Most of the examples were quite complicated and the ones I tried didn't work. This morning I finally succeeded. I used information from two different sections of a book by Elizabeth Castro. She didn't actually illustrate how to do it.

Here's the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Code.

p {color: black}
p.hr {border-top: 5px; border-style: solid; padding: 0px;}
p#black {color:black}
p#red {color:red}
p#blue {color:blue}

Here's the HTML Code (enclose each line in <>)

p class="hr" id="red"
p class="hr" id="black"
p class="hr" id="blue"

Mr. Dickie
29/Apr/2011 9:37