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The spammers are returning. The good news: I’ve already blocked most of them so you shouldn’t notice anything on your end. The bad news: I’ll be working on some changes to help make it a little easier for me, which means there could be the potential for some disruptions on your end. If so, I apologize. Naturally, it’s still BUSH’S FAULT though…

In the near future, Lord willing, there will be some changes to the content on the main website here at CalvinDude.com (and by “main website” I mean that this will not be on the blog). Those who have seen the main page at www.calvindude.com already know that in the left-hand sidebar, there are many articles and such available for you to read (although I know some people only go directly to the blog and may not know this).

Since I am currently taking an Old Testament Survey class and need to do some of this stuff anyway, I will be introducing a new field under the Theology section. It will be my summary of the entire Bible. This project will take some time to complete, and I will not necessarily be doing the books in “Table of Contents” order; however, I intend at some point to finish all the books, and will begin putting in the necessary database framework in the next few days.

This means that you will find some fields inserted in the next few days that will say something like “Check back for content” or whatever I feel like writing once I code that section. I will keep the blog section informed when I add a new section, though, as well as providing the links you need to read the latest info.

The intention of this summary is to provide a sort of survey of the entire Bible with a chapter-by-chapter summary of each book. The only major changes to this will be in the genelogies, proverbs, and Psalms (which, due to their nature, do not summarize very well; I shall instead probably focus on a more topical approach when dealing with those). The hope is that this summary will enable people to get a grasp on some of the systematic doctrines taught in Scripture, as well as enable someone who has never read Scripture before to get a “quick and dirty” overview so that, as they begin to read Scripture, some of the typologies, themes, and common arguments throughout the entirety of Scripture will be there from the beginning.

It looks like we might have a bit of a work-around for the blog. In case anyone is wondering, the problem appears to be with the WYSIWYG capability for the newest version of WordPress. Disabling that apparently works (which is good, because the previous work-around involved having to actually manually input data into the mySQL database…NO FUN!).

In any case, apparently others have had this problem too, based on the support forums. I tried everything suggested in there, including re-installing the WordPress files (twice), clearing the browser caches, etc. All of that and no joy.

By the way, this does not appear to be browser-specific either. I used IE 6.forgetaboutit at work and IE7 at home with the same problem. I haven’t tried it on Firefox at home yet, but it appears on the support forum that that one has problems too.

In any case, none of that should affect comments or anything (I hope). It’s only going to affect me, being the lovely admin that I am!

Oh, for code I wrote myself!!!!

We’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties following the upgrade to the newest version of WordPress. Hopefully it’ll get fixed soon!

This is why I prefer writing my own code!!!

As you can see (assuming you’ve been here before), I’ve changed the theme of the blog.  I’ve got a couple that I’m experimenting with.  I’ll see which one I like the best, and go from there :-)

Feel free to let me know if you love it or hate it.

That’s right, we had some technical difficulties earlier today, but now we’re back up and mostly running again.  Whew!

I’ve now posted my cross-examination rebuttal in the Justification debate I’m having with Jacob Michael.  Find it here!

That’s right, it’s now official.  We have launched the “new look” of the website.  If you’re already on the main page (http://www.calvindude.com) then you’ll already see the new site in action, but if you’re at this blog page you’ll need to click the above link to see it.

New colors, new menu format, and soon…new content too!  Again, feel free to drop by your comments: cd(at)calvindude.com (replace the (at) with @ in the address).

Since it’s taking longer than originally expected to reformat the old articles, we went ahead and put all the old articles and such up on the site. You can reach them by going to http://www.calvindude.com/old/. Please note that while we think we got all the links changed to the “old” directory, there might still be a few that we missed, so if you find a dead link you can blame Bush like the rest of America. But at least you can be grateful that the site looks exactly like it did with those cool gif graphics!!!! r0x0rz d4 h1zzy y0!

Just a little FYI, for the time being the main page will be forwarded to this blog. This is because we are doing a little maintenance to make the rest of the site run better. None of the files that were on there have been removed, and they will all be back shortly :-)

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