Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

This is not by any means an original idea, but I think it came out well for 5 minutes in Paint.Net. My boss is a Porsche nut, and he was having me print some banners for use in the local porsche owners club. I also made this as a free bonus for him.

I’ve been having a pretty deep conversation with a guy I know about a Christian response to the ‘threat’ of Islam in the world. How is a Christian called to respond from the Bible? Should we round them up and kill them? Should we just be idle and let them take over politically? (and all that it implies) I think that there’s something in between that is correct.

I want to live in peace with all people of every religion. You have the right in America to worship as you see fit, so long as it does not affect other people. Our constitution protects you from that. Our constitution also protects a religion from allowing it’s members to murder anyone else.

I have a healthy fear that says, “yeah, that Muslim is taught to kill people who aren’t muslim in the Koran” “Yeah, that muslim knows that if he does it, he’s going to be charged with first degree murder and locked up for the rest of his natural life”

Why is a Christian so afraid of being killed for his faith, that he would rather take torch and kill that other person before he does it to him? Jesus did not come to save his people by using a sword, he came to save them through love and compassion. He let his own creation kill him, without saying a word in his own defense. Thats the kind of example I want to follow. You can call me a coward, you can call me a pacifist. I call myself a Christian, and I want to act the way Christ acted.

My attempts to create a quick way to access google search have met with failure. It seems that using a simple Batch script is insufficient to handle 'special' characters like the pipe '|' or arrows '>' & '<'. These are generally something a geek coder may need to search for. I got off my lazy butt and coded a quick console app in C#.

Complile, copy to your %userprofile% folder, and enjoy.

USAGE ~ [WINKEY + R] -> gs <word1> <word2> <wordn>

namespace genericsearch
{
    class gs
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if(args.Length == 0) {
                System.Console.Error.Write("Use: gs.exe <word.1> <word.2> <word.n>\nPress any key to quit");
                System.Console.Read();
                return;
            }
            string query = "";
            foreach (string s in args)    {query += s + "+";}
            query = query.Remove(query.Length-1,1);
            string queryURL = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["searchURL"];
            string process = queryURL + query;
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(process);
        }
    }
}

app.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="searchURL" value="http://www.google.com/search?q=" />
    </appSettings>
</configuration>