First thing he decides to do is go to Google.com and search for: “Which church is true?”

He ends up with 503,000,000 results to choose from. Quite overwhelming if I do say so myself. Eventually after hundreds of search results, he finds himself distracted and pricing out inflatable bubbles that will allow him to walk on water, and decides Google isn’t giving him the answers he’s looking for.

Next he decides to check out Facebook. He has a lot of friends on there and everyone is always talking about how cool it is. He first starts by posting a question on his wall asking everyone “Which church is true?”. What a can of worms. Everyone with a religion says their’s is true and everyone without a religion tries to convince him he doesn’t need it. A few friend requests and conversations later and after a game of Farmville with his buddy Larry, he finds himself even more confused and has just realized he’s spent 6 hours on Facebook and has less to show for it than he started with.

Next he moves on to Twitter, after all, the Savior always said, “Come Follow Me”. After hours of searching and finding hundreds of “fake” profiles, Joseph realizes our Savior doesn’t tweet and isn’t on Twitter.

Finally after many confusing hours and lots of distractions, he decides to turn off his computer and grab his family’s old bible from the book shelve full of books they’ve gotten for Christmas over the years that have never been opened. He’s even more determined now and he begins eliminating even more distractions. Joseph turns off his cell phone so he’s not distracted by text messages or phone calls, and he finds a place without WiFi so he’s not tempted to get online. Once all the distractions have been eliminated, he begins reading the bible.

He eventually comes to a scripture in James 1:5 that reads:

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

“Ask God directly?” Joseph thought. Don’t ask Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Jeeves? I never even thought of that. I’ve always just gone to the big 3 for help and answers.

And you can imagine the rest of the story and how it ends. Joseph didn’t receive a direct message on Twitter or Facebook. He didn’t receive an email or a text message. He said a sincere, focused prayer, and spoke with God and Jesus Christ and got the answers that he had been searching for. But he first had to eliminate all the distractions and search for answers in the right place.

The demo goes over zebra striping, first-child/last-child, hovering, and just straight up ways of overcoming some still lingering cross-browser compatibility issues.  Hopefully you can gain something from it that can benefit you in your projects and websites.

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I’m a Mac guy and love to download and try out as many apps as I can get my hands on.  I’ve tried a few different GTD types of apps over the years, and I believe I’ve officially found my favorite, The Hit List.  It’s not at all what I expected my favorite to be, mostly because I’ve never seen a GTD app like this.

It takes a different approach, at least from my perspective.  It’s hard to find a GTD app that allows for details, but doesn’t go overboard.  Or even a GTD app that isn’t too simple.

These are the things that I really like about The Hit List:

1. Ability to organize tasks into folders and/or projects.
2. Dashboard of items due or soon to be due.
3. The tagging feature.
4. Ability to add sub-tasks like a sub-list item.
5. A built in timer to track the time it takes for each task.
6. The ability to do everything from you’re keyboard. (if you’re a “power user”)
7. It’s a Mac App.

I’m sure I haven’t listed all the features it has, but those are just the ones I like thus far.  I’m sure I’ll start using more of them.  If you are a Mac user, I recommend you check out The Hit List to see if it’s something that can help keep you organized.

This weekend we started our weekend off with my wife and I going to a Jazz game.  My boss gave us some awesome tickets and we definitely took advantage.  Jazz lost but it’s always fun to go to the game.  It was Tyrone Corbin’s first game coaching since Jerry Sloan retired a day or so before the game.  The Jazz have a lot of work to do if they want to represent the Jazz of past.

Church was good.  On Saturday I spent some time trying to do better at my church calling as Membership Clerk.  I kind of got a little motivated so hopefully I’ll do a better job at that.  Sunday I spent most my time updating records and cleaning records up.  Fun stuff.

I’m tired now so I’m just getting ready to hit the hay.  Hopefully I’ll have a good post to share in the near future.

We’re trying to make some extra money doing some things online and he’s been a big help and been a work horse.  I’m a recovering over-thinker.  He’s good at keeping it simple.  We discussed PicnicWith.Us and what we’re going to start doing there.  It’s our e-commerce site that is slowly coming together.  We can take orders but we’re barely starting to do SEO and trying to build links.

Anyways, thought I’d try to keep a good thing going by blogging.  Hopefully I’ll get some more design done tomorrow.  I’ve got a screaming 3 year old begging me to put him to bed.