An abortion doctor was shot and killed in a Lutheran church service today.

The doctor was one of the few doctors who would abort babies who were far enough along in pregnancy that many would have survived if born at the point of the doctor-enforced death - essentially infanticide.

I'm as shamed of our culture for this barbaric act that is paraded as some advance in culture (though it was a barbaric practice throughout the ages and is in contradiction to science), but God reserves the rights to bring vengeance.

Anyone who takes a human life has taken something so valuable, they've forfeited their own. There is judgment awaiting those who are responsible for the deaths of the innocent, whether through manipulation of legal systems or taking the lives of the innocent and helpless young.

This is a mark of cultural shame and disgrace.

But vengeance is God's.

Attempting to take God's role, whether deciding how long innocents' lives last, or deciding how long the guilty live - both are attempting to take God's role - it is He who decides who lives and dies*. Lucifer started the trend of wanting to take God's place, and both the abortionists and the man who shot this guy are guilty of the same sin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_re_us/us_tiller_shooting

*After the flood, God did enforce the death penalty, and while it's a much longer and different discussion, God doesn't seem to be in favor of anarchy and protecting the accused through trials requiring multiple witness' testimonies, etc.

We're trying to organize all of our digital photos, going back several years. It's a real pain, trying to figure out how to organize - do we catalog by date, location, event, people in the picture?

Windows Live Photo Gallery, now available for XP and Vista for free, allows you to tag people just like you do on Facebook (but with more flexibility that Facebook, because you decide the size of the square around the person in the photo), and also allows for a caption and miscellaneous tags. Take the picture below, for example, (click to see full size).

With this photo I have:

• tagged several people (names blurred for privacy),
  
• added descriptive tags "180" and "Poland" because it's a trip that the group 180 took to Poland. You'll
• added a caption
• edited the author

The best part of this is that Windows saves this information right into the file. If keep a backup, the information is saved. If I email it to you, you get the tags I've added.

I can now

• search in Windows Gallery for "Dan Alice Poland" to see all pictures where there's a Dan and an Alice in a photo tagged with "Poland"
• upload to Facebook, including all people tags, which will be linked to their Facebook profile if they're my friend on Facebook
• upload to Picasa, including all people tags
• upload to Flickr and other places too.
  

Using Windows, you can find your photos by date, person, description tag, folder, or by searching.

Finally, a decent way of organizing our photos!

(If you're interested, it can even sync your photos between computers, via your hotmail/msn account, so if you edit a photo or add tags, it can make the changes to copies on other computers that you have.)

I pulled out of a parking spot today after I was waved on by a guy on a motorcycle. I was waiting for him to go until he waved me on.

Then, the entire time I was backing up he, shook his head and gave me a nasty look.

Don't shake your head at someone when they're only doing what you suggested - then you're just shaking your head at your own suggestion, and what does that say about yourself?

A quick tip from weeding the garden:

If a plant looks like it could thrive in Mordor - if it looks like it's evil, it's a weed.

There was a recent article in the Denver Post, "Budget will cut a wide swath: Making Do With Less"

At first I was impressed with the idea that the government would me making do with less, but the article goes on to state that it means that Coloradans will have to make due with less, because taxes are going to go up to pay for a non-balanced budget.

Yay.