John Hesch

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To air July 3, 2005

• 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM: The Signers with music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Star Spangled Banner
• 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM: George Washington with music by Ron Simmons - House Of Freedom
• 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM: Nathan Hale with music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - My Country! ‘Tis Of Thee
• God Mend / Every Flaw will air during the Sounds of Sunday with music by Mormon Tabernacle Choir - America The Beautiful

To air July 10, 2005

• 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM: The Answer to Prayer with music by Envoy - Go Ye Now in Peace
• 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM: The God Of America with music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - America The Beautiful
• 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM: The Duty of Prayer with music by Felicia Sorenson - I Will Seek the Lord
• Hannah Hendee will air during the Sounds of Sunday with music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Battle Hymn Of The Republic

To air July 17, 2005

• 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM: Martha and Mary with music by Mackenzie Wright Romriell - Foolish Or Wise
• 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM: Jesus The Pioneer with music by Jeff Goodrich - Oh Lord, My Redeemer
• 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM: The Power Of His Name with music by Afterglow - Thou Shalt Love The Lord
• Not Too Much to Ask will air during the Sounds of Sunday with music by Liz Draper - From God’s Arms to Yours

To air July 24, 2005 (Pioneer Day)

• 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM: Jedediah Morgan Grant with music by Hymns Words & Music - Carry On
• 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM: Stanford & Arabella with music by Wade & Wanda Lindstrom - For the Strength
• 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM: Drusilla Hendricks with music by Wanda Lindstrom Mitchell - Sacrifice
• Stillman Pond to air during the Sounds of Sunday with music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Come, Come Ye Saints

To air July 31, 2005

• 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM: Gethsemane with music by Wanda & Wade Lindstrom - I Know That My Redeemer Lives
• 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM: Courtney’s 2nd Chance with music by Courtney Gardner - When Faith Endures
• 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM: The Flag Pole with music by Becca and Shawn Rammell - Will He Really Answer Me?
• Living On the Edge to air during the Sounds of Sunday with music by Janice Kapp Perry Chorus - The Power to Choose

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Shelly and I saw Bewitched last night. I’m not a big Will Ferrell fan so I wasn’t sure how well I would like the movie. I was pleasantly surprised. It got a few laughs from me. Shirley MacLaine was the perfect Endora and Nicole Kidman did a pretty good job, although I thought she was trying to be too much like Meg Ryan. In fact there were a few times where I thought Meg Ryan would of been perfect for this movie.

I don’t understand what happened to the ending? The movie ended without completing some of the story lines.

This weekend we want to see the Steven Spielberg movie War of the Worlds and I need to see Batman Begins again as there was way too much stuff going on to take it all in.

Ann Bingham wrote asking about this years Pearl Awards. The last I heard the Pearl Awards show has been canceled and probably will not happen this year. There may be a dinner or other type of event in its place but it won’t be for a few months.

Ok, I might be a little slow on this but I recently downloaded and installed GreaseMonkey for Firefox. GreaseMonkey is an extension that allows you to run user scripts on particular web sites.

There are over 200 user scripts available. For example, I like to use Titan TV to check out what’s on the tube, but they have a really annoying advertisement that runs the length of the page. It must use some sort of JavaScript because it causes Firefox to jam sometimes. But there is a user script that I installed into GreaseMonkey that removes that banner every time I visit Titan TV.

I like to use Del.icio.us to save my bookmarks. One of the issues I have with Del.icio.us is that on my list of bookmarks there is an edit link but not a delete link. It takes me another click to get to the Del.icio.us provided delete link. Conveniently, there is a GreaseMonkey script that adds a delete link right next to the edit link by each of my bookmarks.

I use Bloglines to read my RSS feeds. They have a clipping feature which allows me to save a particular entry to go back later and read. With this GreaseMonkey script I can clip entries to Del.icio.us instead. That’s more convenient for me.

Good stuff!

Google released Personalized Search today.

Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders your search results based on what you’ve searched for in the past. You may not notice much difference at first, but as you build up your search history, your personalized search results will continue to improve.

I wonder how this will change SEO tactics? The way I understand this is search results are going to be different for individual users. A particular search by one user may show different results than another user. If I’m ranked number one for a particular keyword for one user I may not be number one for another user, right?

Every Friday at 1:00 PM MT and again at 11:00 PM MT, KZION counts down the top 10 requested songs for the week. Requested songs are titles that are requested using the automated request system available to Paid Members only.

I sold Blogging Pro today to Jacob Gower. I was paid a good price for it and I think Jacob will add a new dimension.

Now my Adsense revenue is going to plummet from $250/month to $100/month. I need to replace that revenue somehow.

The old Planet LDS wasn’t working out too well. The Python script I was using was borking on all the Blogspot blogs. I don’t know why, but I didn’t have the time nor the patience to figure out what the problem was.

So now I’m using a standard WordPress install with a plugin called Feedwordpress. Works similar to the Planet software but is so much easier to configure and add blogs. I’ll probably change the template soon.

Check it out.

A 73 year old peasant farmer near Mount Kenya, working out in his potato and bean fields finds himself being attacked by a leopard. He has a machete in one hand but hears a voice

A voice, which must have come from God

telling him to drop the machete and shove his hand down the leopard’s mouth. He does what he is told and thrusts his hand into the leopard’s mouth and rips out its tongue. The animal screams and falls to the ground, near death. A neighbor comes running and finishes off the leopard with a machete.

Nothing messes with a Kenyan peasant farmer. Those guys are tough!

So, this guy walks into a pizza place and orders a pizza. While his pizza is being prepared he fills out a job application using his real name and address. He turns in the application and then pulls out a gun and robs the pizza place.

I would chalk it up to either inexperience or plain stupidity

I wonder if he is sitting in jail right now wondering if he got the job.

My oldest son who is 21 has been having a rough time lately.

Last night I had a dream that I was sleeping on the floor in a very small room high above what appeared to be a gymnasium. Within a few feet of where I was lying was an overlook without any guards or railings. This was not an ordinary gymnasium as the room I was sleeping in was probably two stories high and the entire room down below was covered with a mat, like you would see at a gymnastics or wrestling event.

I was awakened by the screaming of someone in obvious pain. As I listened to the scream I recognized the voice as that of my oldest son. I could tell that he was in extreme pain and was suffering. The sound was coming from down below. I crawled over to the overlook and I could see my son laying face down, and there were a lot of people gathered around trying to help him.

He had jumped or fell from the room I was in, several stories down to the mat.

I then woke up. The sound of him screaming in pain has haunted me all day.

My Link Blog is now up and running. You can get to it by clicking on the Recent Links link in my header. In my journeys around the web I will link to interesting articles, crazy news, cool applications, etc. Stuff that I would like to share but don’t want to take the time to write about.

Probably the easiest way to get the recent links is through your RSS reader. The feed is here.

So if you’re looking for something interesting to read check my link blog, you’re sure to find something there.

I have listed Blogging Pro for sale. I have too much going on and can’t keep up with the amount of time it takes to research blogging resources and then get them posted. Minimum bid is $2,000 but I’m sure if I held onto it for another year or two I could get five times that much, but it requires a huge time commitment that I’m not able to give right now.

Who knows, I may end up having to keep it if it doesn’t sell. Oh well, sleep is highly over rated anyway.

I hope all you dads are getting a much deserved rest today.

Shelly and I saw Batman Begins today and we were both very pleased with the movie. As far as I’m concerned Christian Bale is the best Batman so far. This movie was packed with well known actors such as Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman.

A new restart of the “Batman” franchise under the helm of “Memento” Director Chris Nolan and more in tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organised crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him.

The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

The movie is dark and violent so it’s not for young kids.