Timothy’s Brainwaves!

Aspiration softly stirring, my head laid upon my bed,
In the afternoon I thought I would be sleeping but something turns up instead.
The warm and peaceful thoughts of those who the LORD has put in my life,
The times of joy and fellowship with the brethren before the sprouting strife.
Oh, that I would see those days again before the covering of darkness,
Where life seemed brighter and happier before the incoming heaviness.
But what is this that I see and yearn for that’s is from before?
The walk that I had previously had before crashing to the floor.
I praise God He has delivered me and put me back to shore.
Yet, is it really the shore I’m on or am I on something else?
That’s softly and gently cruising along taking me slowly home?

Though scarred and muddied are the waters flowing deep inside of me,
JESUS, He’s lifted me up, and cleaned me out, He has remade me free.
Is His love sufficient? I find myself asking in various and different ways.
Why do I even question: Has may faith been shaken these days?
Truly, truly God stands upon His Word: "His grace is sufficient" for me.
Despite all this I still long for the things of the heavenly.
To feel my jaw quivering, to be Daddy’s little boy.
To feel the power of the Holy Ghost and with it the most bountiful joy.
It feels I’m struggling harder, and the gains are smaller too,
How I long for the things of the heavenly: I’m never going to give up - it’s true!

Such are the way things are, certainly this is quite the test.
Battling and struggling to regain ground, yet this is no time to rest.
For the end is coming fast and still a candidate awaiting rapture I be.
The end of the walk is more important than the start, I am beginning to see.
It matters not that one was righteous or wicked from before.
As the end is all that is of consequence and will determine the entry of which door.
One to paradise, and the other to hell, the choice is mine to make.
In reality, there is only but one choice for the other is to bake.
So here I am, today is now - where do I want to go?
Off to the heavenly things: to get lost in the flow.

Candidates awaiting rapture
When the angel’s trump sounds
We will fly away.

The time is short my friend,
As it’s coming to The End.
Are you ready to go to eternity?
Are you sure that you have been set free?

If not, you’re in for hard times in pain,
A tumultuous pain it will be.
And that’s only the start for those not under the Name.
Friend, open your eyes, and see.

Fast approaching is the black morass,
As God’s judgment on Earth is about to be passed!

Flames so dark and tormenting,
Consuming yet not consuming.
With people disfigured and contorting,
Without pause and ever resuming!

Where the stench is so strong that it’s suffocating,
With smoke so thick it burns the eyes.
Fear is all around and from everywhere emanating,
Without hope, a place where God won’t hear your cries.

Friend, it’s time to get right with God.
Obey the great news of the Gospel.

For it is not the pleasure of God to torment you,
Yet, He is righteous and is a God of judgment.
Therefore, He must repay you for all that you do.
It is His nature for He is Holy: He delights in judgment.

So go quickly my friend for today is the day of salvation!
Go forth and repent!
Be baptized in Jesus’ Name and make the migration,
From sin to righteousness in the great ascent!

Be covered by His precious blood,
And receive ye the gift of the Holy Ghost!

Be not deceived that you get this gift automatically,
As it comes with an outward visible sign.
As many out there will tell it to you falsely,
Saying that speaking in tongues is a thing of the olden time.

You must receive the gift of the Holy Ghost,
For that is the Spirit of our LORD.
Without it, you are none of His and will be as good as toast.
For with this gift, you’ll be in one mind and one accord.

Hear what the Spirit saieth unto the Churches,
The time commeth - Maranatha! Maranatha!

Proclaim it to the mountains!
Proclaim it to the valleys!
Come to the life giving fountains!
Come to the great feast of our LORD!

Come LORD JESUS, Come!

Apocalypse now, and for years it shall be,
As infinite as the deep dark sea.
A wave of pain will flood the land,
The Angel of Death with her icy hand.
Screams and wails and the gnashing of teeth,
Bodies lay unburied with much grief.
Disease and famine continue to spread,
As millions of soldiers will eat hot lead.
Oh woe! Oh woe is the world!
Of the missiles the nations have hurled,
Of nuclear, napalm, and chemical too,
A fiery death to the Lord’s untrue!
Terra’s cities will crumble,
Until its people are humbled.
Repent oh nations! Repent oh world!
Bring peace and harmony and stop discord.

This is a poem that I wrote back during Sophomore / Junior year (2000-2001). It’s also available on Poetry.com.

I’m happy to report that the Giveaway of the Day Launcher is back! We’ve restored functionality by using the mirror sites. Back when I looked over a month ago, no mirrors were available as only the WikiFortio system was used. Here’s the latest changes made to the program:

07-05-07:
- Restored functionality utilizing mirror sources.
- Used new transparant background icon. Thanks stamba!
- Moved buttons around a bit to better allow the viewing of the day’s offering.
- Added scrollbars to offering viewer.

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I’m sad to say that the GAoTD Launcher no longer works. Ever since GAoTD switched to WikiFortio for file hosting, the program fails to run as it doesn’t know how to get files from WikiFortio, a site which requires user input to download. We’ll be thinking of a way to get it to work again, but until then, this piece of software has reached the end of it’s useful life and is just a piece of junk - so feel free to uninstall it and we’ll let you know of when a new version is out (should there be one).

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I’m so excited! I just got asked to join Just Another Mobile Monday’s staff of writers! I’m looking forward to working with the team. In addition, I’m testing out this new Post2Blog software and seeing how well it works with WordPress (it works with other blogs too). If I can’t figure out this software, guess I’ll have to resort to Windows Writer Live. This software just looked so promising….but I can’t seem to get it to change fonts so I’m stuck with Times New Roman. Then again, maybe it’s because all text will revert to the default blog style by CSS. Well, let’s see how this goes - gonna test it out on my blog first before the JAMM one.

After some more testing and bug squashing, I’m happy to announce a bugfix realease of the GAotD Launcher.  Special thanks to MASA, Gaev, and Sam Cox for helping me with ideas and catching a good number of bugs.  If you haven’t been to Giveaway of the Day yet or Game Giveaway of the Day, you have to check it out!  It’s a great site for commercial software given for free on a unique licensing structure (it’s free only on the day it’s given and so likewise are the install priviledges).

I’m happy to announce the release of v1.0 of the GAotD Launcher!  After getting some ideas from JohnRR003 from the GAotD Forums.  I decided it would be an excellent programming project.  It features support for both the standard GAotD offering as well as the Game GAotD offering.  It includes features such as preventing the user from any action after the process starts so that if some windows such as registration info boxes come up, it would let the user know that there is still more to do before the software is activated.  So far this has been tested on 3 computers in the house.  But I definately would want reports of any bugs should people experience anything. 

The terms of use upon installing this software is quite simply, it’s freeware and I’ve programmed it to the best of my ability. I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong. Please submit all bugs and feature requests to me at tjchan@gmail.com.

What this program does:
1. Check offerings.
2. Download offerings.
3. Un-zips the file.
4. Run installer(s) (this includes activation stuff).
5. Deletes files downloaded.

As soon as you launch the program, it will connect to get ticker information. If the ticker does not show up, then something is wrong with your connection (it may take up to 5-10 seconds for it to show up). Perhaps I should talk to the GAotD team and get this program to be official. For now though it’s one of those projects in which it was just plain fun to write and it was a challenge as I’ve never done something like this before!

Yesterday night I spent way to long (at least 3 hours) trying to get a label to display “1.2″.  Finally the LORD showed me the proper way on doing this.

 Instead of:

double x = 6/5;
lblLabel.Text = Convert.ToString(x);

I have to do this else the value of x will be 1.

double x = 6.0/5.0;
lblLabel.Text = Convert.ToString(x);

Hallelujah!  Learned something new.  In addition, I got more ideas for “Tapper” and talked with Mrs. Ginnette Serrano-Correa about methods on achieving goals of that program.  In addition I met Carol and Andy and found out about a Mr. Crawford in E220 who does Game Design which may be able to help out with some more ideas.