I have come across a couple of interesting sites lately. One combines photos and community, the other music and community. The first, Flickr has a ton of very cool pictures taken by amateur and semi-professional photographers. It's more about sharing your photos and letting people comment on them than it is about ordering prints, so the irritation factor is very low. Send me an email if you want to see my pictures.

Audioscrobbler (a site badly in need of a better name) is a great music site. It uploads a list of what you listen to and then refines a profile of you so that the database can offer you recommendations. You can browse what other people with similar tastes listen to on their computer and iPod. To see my statistics, go here.

In the past few weeks I've received some interesting Spam messages. Apparently the geniuses who create spam to get through most filters use random word generation to come up with the first and last names on the return address. Here are a few that caught my eye:

• Uninspiring J. Insemination
• Molting F. Subaru
• Sissy R. Burped
• Gaped U. Woolies
• Snuffles V. Anntennae
• Gonorrhea T. Bacterium

Here's a story about the church we redid down in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

One of my sons is going through a phase where he asks "What?" after everything any grown up says to him. The other day I confronted him about it.

I said, "You need to listen more closely when people say things to you. You always ask 'What?' and it is becoming very rude."

My son replied, "I'm three, I don't know what's going on."

Those of you hounding me to see some of my writings can check out a story I did as a final project for a Romantic Era literature class called "Claphaven."

Let me know what you think!