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Ben tells his testimony including his struggle with worldly things & ending up in military school; drugs, pain, addiction, and ultimately his release & hope with Christ and new-found love in youth ministry. Ben is a great example of living what you believe…

I snapped a few iPhone photos tonight on the way home.

It’s a lot nicer on my photoblog, this link takes you there.

So I’ve again changed my website’s look. I’m not sure how long I’ll stick with it, but as I’ve customized it more and more, I’m starting to like it.

The pursuit of happiness is something this nation knows all about. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of it is what every American wishes to obtain. Unfortunately, I believe that a lot of Americans aren’t happy and/or can’t find a path to happiness that suits them and their needs. It’s so unfortunate that in the land of plenty, few are genuinely happy.

In ancient times, the people of the world didn’t have a lot of the things that we have today and ultimately take for granted. Even though the Bible and our history books have taught us that these ancient people weren’t always happy, they seem to have gotten by just fine. So apparently, the things that the human race has created over time haven’t made us any happier. Sure, these things were made for our conveniences, and some really do help us out, but they haven’t succeeded in elevating our level of true happiness or created any more time for us. And certainly our happiness hasn’t decreased due to lack of things, or even lack of money.
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So I’ve been uploading photos for a few months now to my photoblog and it’s been interesting. I love the Autofocus theme and all the amazing things it does, but it lacked something…

What’s Missing

My photoblog, that is using the amazing Autofocus theme is simply that…a simple photoblog of some of my photos taken from any and everywhere.

I noticed something wasn’t right and I had one gripe about it…on single pages it lacked a bit of class and touch that I think photoblogs should have. Mainly I was looking for a previous/next thumbnail support when it displayed previous and next navigation links under the content. I thought that would be a perfect place to put these little gems.

By default, Autofocus theme puts the navigation to the previous and next posts underneath your content photo. Makes perfect sense, but I figured it’s a friggin photo blog, why not display the previous/next available photo too? [...]

In effort to make browsing TQuizzle.com a little easier for the occasional mobile user, I installed the very popular WPTouch tonight. I have to say, this plugin has got a lot of good features and I’m sure with time it will only get better.

Installing it now is a snap and I had it up and running in less than 5 minutes. Works just as advertised and I whipped out my iPhone to test it out and straightaway, it looked perfect. Nice, clean, simple mobile interface for the blog that users can easily navigate and heck, even comment if they so choose to.

I was a big proponent of MoFuse for a long time, but they just weren’t doing it for me anymore. Sticking ads in my content, not giving me near the customization that this simple plugin does.

So now if you get a tweet about my site being updated or you happen across it using a mobile browser, you should see the magnificent WPTouch in action making your mobile experience on TQuizzle.com much more enjoyable.

Saturday night while watching UFC 104 over at @tshaiebly’s, many of us in the room thought Shogun won the main event. It was close no doubt, but I thought he pulled it off, but the judges saw it differently.

Apparently, UFC Pres. Dana White felt like Shogun won too. That’s one thing about Dana White, he’ll tell you what he really thinks and you got to love that. When asked about another fight, a controversial call by veteran Ref Steve Mazzagatti, White said he that he “shouldn’t even be allowed to watch MMA, let alone referee it.”

(video after the jump)
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This year, the wife (@hquizzle) and I got a chance to go down to Austin for Austin City Limits. While I’ve never been to a music festival before, this blew my mind. So many bands, so many people, so many things to see. It was a blast.
A highlight of what I remember us seeing is as goes; Dr. Dog, some amazing Jazz guy, K’Naan, Bassnectar (briefly), Thievery Corporation & Kings of Leon. What an afternoon lineup!

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