Monthly Archives: October 2006

Jim West found a site on the web, www.howmanyofme.com, which allows you to discover how many other people in the United States have the same name you do. According to this site, no one has my name, which is of … Continue reading →

I dislike Daylight Savings Time. A lot. I would really prefer that we not have to change the clocks twice a year and to lose an hour’s sleep in the Spring. I simply don’t see the value of mucking with … Continue reading →

Moon Over Aiyalon had dropped off the best seller list last Monday. But then, for awhile, over this weekend (Saturday and Sunday), it popped back on. So I guess I sold another short story. I have no idea how many … Continue reading →

Today my short story Moon Over Aiyalon hit Amazon’s best seller list for Amazon Shorts. It got as high as number 19 on the list, but it’s dropping now. I have no idea what that means so far as the … Continue reading →

During the month of September, my pastor, Don Patterson, asked me to do a four part series of seminars on Sunday evening entitled Islam: Theology and History. The first two of those seminars are now available online on our church’s … Continue reading →

My short story Moon Over Aiyalon is now available from Amazon.com as part of their Amazon Shorts program. It only costs 49 cents to download and read it. Amazon takes 60 per cent, I get 40 per cent. What’s the … Continue reading →

New Exo-Planet Discovered NASA has reported that there is a Jupiter mass planet around Epsilon Eridani, only 10.5 light years from Earth: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has provided definitive evidence for the existence of the … Continue reading →

Freedom of Action in Space A new U.S. national space policy has been issued. The unclassified version is available in PDF. MSNBC.com reports: The new policy supports not only an exploration agenda for the moon, Mars and beyond, but also … Continue reading →

Music video by “Weird Al” Yankovic from the album “Straight Outta Lynwood”

The Brussels Journal has an interesting article that begins: “The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300 years, but this is … Continue reading →