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Archive for July, 2009

23
Jul

Thoughts About Fable II

Your big sister broke my heart. I didn’t really have high hopes for Fable II. The reason my hopes weren’t high is because the first Fable (for the original Xbox) seriously let me down. The advertising promised great things… a change to fully customize either a fully good, fully evil, or Read moreRead more
22
Jul

Quote {Simone Weil}

In the period of preparation for loving God, the soul loves in emptiness. It does not know whether anything real answers its love. It may believe that it knows, but to believe is not to know. Such a belief does not help. The soul knows for certain only that it Read moreRead more
22
Jul

Disney Vacation September 2007

Slowly but surely I am getting around to getting my photos back online. Here I’ve uploaded and captioned the photos that I took during my September 2007 Disney Vacation. I’ve divided the photos into two groups. The first group, shown here, is composed of photos of the family and friends Read moreRead more
21
Jul

Thoughts About Christianity {My Relationship With God}

Re-Learning My Relationship With God The closest analogy of “progress” with my relationship with God would be that as a man climbing a ladder to a roof of a house. Every day that would pass where I wouldn’t lose my temper or didn’t indulge my mind in lustful thoughts would be Read moreRead more
20
Jul

Thoughts About Cars

Kachow! I’ll hand it to Disney / Pixar as far as Car’s story is concerned. They tried something different. While most movie license games will have you play through the events of the movie, Cars takes place after the movie. The story (while not up to Disney / Pixar’s usually standards) Read moreRead more
19
Jul

Thoughts About How To Ruin Your Life

How To Ruin Your Life is a satirical book written by Ben Stein that perfectly blends humor and motivation. A joy to read, the book detail outs 21 steps (giving example of each) that if taken to heart and applied to your life will definitely ruin it. In short Read moreRead more
18
Jul

Royksopp – What Else Is There? {Lyrics}

This post is just a little fun with my search engine statistics. 42 people this week found their way to my PaulHobson.com looking for the lyrics to the song “What Else Is There?” by the band Royksopp. The lyrics aren’t here but it’s easy for me to understand how people Read moreRead more
17
Jul

Top 5 Youtube Videos I’ve Watched This Week

5: Living With Duke Nukem’ Disease. I almost don’t want to share this because I’m getting sensitive in my old age and think this video might be a tad closer to making fun of people with real diseases. Or at least maybe opening a wound for people that have to deal Read moreRead more
16
Jul

Formatting Phone Numbers In Crystal Reports

I would think that formatting a phone number would be a pretty standard task in Crystal Reports so I’m not sure why this bit of information was so hard to find on the Internets. But anyway, for my own reference and maybe to help out someone else, here is how Read moreRead more