Well... that was an experience. I spent most of the evening yesterday finalizing my lesson, which was why I missed a day on the weblog for the first time in about 70 days, and finally got it to a point I felt good about.
Teaching went fairly well. I know Dreamweaver like the back of my hand, I can explain it I'd say only on an average level. Six (yes, 6) straight hours is a long time to talk about Dreamweaver. My class was beginners--I had people who ranged from hand coders wanting to move to a WYSIWYG (imagine that) to people who had never even seen html or were fairly new to computers in general. In one day we went from basic HTML concepts all the way to tables. A fairly broad range I'd say.
While my students rated me well and I feel I imparted the information in a comprehensible way, for some reason I don't feel that good about the class. Maybe it's all the time that went into it vs. the money coming out... maybe it's that I wasn't cut out to teach that type of material. I'm not sure. I'm going to stick with it, try to improve and give it some time--hopefully I'll feel better after future classes, or if not, at least I'll know.
It's been a couple months since I had Linux (that's GNU/Linux for you diehards) on the desktop and even when I did I never really used it. The time has come to do it again, this time with a real, practical purpose. I chose Mepis because it's based on Debian which, if you're not familiar with Linux, is a distribution (version) that makes it very easy to install new software. Mepis makes Debian easier to install and configure. It also works as a live cd (as I mentined a couple days ago).
The purpose for installing it this time is backups... lately I've had data-loss paranoia and Linux seems like a good way to back up both my remote server and laptop to one place. I found a tutorial I'm going to try which uses rsync.
I was looking for other Mormon weblogs on bloglines.com (I eventually found A Soft Answer which has a great list) and I came across a few entries in other folks blogs that stated and/or implied that Mormons aren't Christians.
It's fine that people don't know a lot about Mormonism or understand its every doctrine. I don't understand or know about most doctrines of other churches, but here's one fact that will help anyone who's lacking in knowledge of Mormonism: Mormons are Christians. The name of the church is officially "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." The Book of Mormon is called "The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ." In the the Book of Mormon there's a verse that says
"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."
I hope that in posting this I don't sound irate or self-righteous, it really is just to help clear up a common misconception.