http://blog.bobstocking.comQuick Blogcasthttp://blog.bobstocking.com/2011/11/28/day-one-again.aspx?ref=rss<font style=""><font face="Arial">It never fails to amaze me that time tends to march on, whether or not I'm ready. Started my exercise program today. Goal is to walk four miles three times weekly. My first day back wasn't too bad. Did the four miles in just three hours. I'm thinking crawling the last mile may have had an adverse effect on my overall time. Last winter I walked in the freezing wind, rain and snow. Just as I was getting used to it, the sun started shining and the temperatures were inviting. So I stopped! Today it was 35 degrees with a wet fog. Now you're talking. I can walk in this! Must remember to cover my bald head and wear gloves. Luckily, only my dog could hear me wining about how cold my head and hands were. Want to get my time down from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. Not saying I'm getting fat or anything, but my stomach made it home a full ten minutes before the rest of me. Knee felt alright once I got through the first mile. Then again, I think every joint in my body was screaming at me the first mile or so. "Ha!" I say. Wait until it gets in the low teens and snow is burning any exposed flesh. Let them scream then! Okay, that may be a little over the top. Must work on my sarcasm a bit. Let's face it, some people don't get the sarcasm and their feelings get hurt. To those people I'd like to say...get over it! Life gets harder from here! (Sorry, it's that sarcasm thing again.) Today, as all days, I will try to be more like Jesus, to be more loving and forgiving. Do you think Jesus had a hard time being Jesus? We know he was tested in the desert, but did Satin completely give up afterwards. Jesus was fully God and fully man yet He depended totally on the Father during His time on earth. Did He get up in the morning and try to be really good, or did His perfect character carry Him through. I am so thankful that the only way to Heaven is through the perfect Grace of God and not by works alone. Good thing too because after fasting for 40 days and nights, I probably would have caved at the whole "stones" and "loaves of bread" thing. Thank you Jesus!<br></font></font>Bob Stocking2011-11-28T23:50:21Zhttp://blog.bobstocking.com/2011/03/15/whats-this-newweb-thing.aspx?ref=rss<p class="mood"></p> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></font><p>As a former computer science major I've seen the web grow exponentially. At that time it was only used by the government and universities for information. It was not available to the general public, the information was absolutely reliable and no advertisements were allowed. Who would companies advertise to anyway... a bunch of us computer geeks typing away on our keyboards in a dimly lit university basement where the terminals lived? During that time the only input was the keyboard. There was no mouse because there was no GUI (graphical user interface). If one wanted to access the internet, one had to know UNIX and use a text based command line interpreter. We also had various options for color. We could have green and black or amber and black, depending on the monitor.<br></p><p>The first computer I built was "state of the art". It had a blazing clock speed of 12MHz, twice as fast as former IBM clones. I went crazy on the storage and installed a 40M hard drive, four times the size of former IBM clones. Memory? Call me crazy, I maxed out at a whopping 2Megs. Oh, and the operating system was a thing called DOS. Eat you heart out!</p><p>Things have changed a bit since then, including myself. I know longer qualify as a "computer geek". I haven't followed the programming advancements and languages in years. Instead, I tend to use the right side of my brain a little more and leave the logic to the computers and those who spend time typing away on their keyboards in dimly lit university basements.<br></p><p><br></p>TechnologyBob Stocking2011-03-15T18:58:00Z