Archive - March, 2006

two new projects

March 25, 2006 in Site Info with 0 Comments

Two new projects down the workflow for your consideration.
First, a new website called Catholic Thinker. This weblog, written mainly by Mark Lavernge, hopes to have a few regular contributors discussing modern events in light of Catholic thought.
As the disclaimer on the site reads,

“The authors on the website do not claim to speak for the Church. We are Catholic, however, and so we hope to promote a Catholic way of looking at current events, books, media and whatever else comes to our mind. We might say something that is contrary to Catholic thought. If you catch us, let us know. The depth of knowledge contained within the Church is too expansive for any one person or any small group to ever fully understand and so we will make mistakes.
We hope to further the discussion that was started during the Second Vatican Council when the Council Fathers asked how does our faith- our church- connect to today’s modern world.

I’m excited about this project and hope it’ll find its niche online.
The second project is primarly for Lambda Omega Alpha, the Catholic fraternity at The University of Texas at Austin. I’m launched an online store that is currently selling LOA and UCC t-shirts. It’s not perfect and there are many tweaks I need to make, but since it is primarly for a small audience, I’m taking my time on it. All proceeds will go to LOA, the UCC and the LOA Scholarship Fund.

a twin in austin?

March 24, 2006 in Random with 0 Comments

On page 14 in the March issue of Catholic Spirit, the newspaper for the Diocese of Austin, there is a photospread of various vocation office events held over the past couple of months.
Despite rumors to the contrary, that is not a picture of me. I don’t own that shirt and my hairline isn’t as far back.
It is freaky how much that guy looks like me though.

church robberies in the austin area

March 21, 2006 in Church with 1 Comment

It’s sad that alerts like this exists. This came from the Chancellor of the Diocese of Austin.

This is to alert you to a series of robberies that has been occurring in some parishes around the diocese. There have been three instances in the Austin area in which a white male in his 30′s driving a dark SUV comes to the parish and asks from money. He says that he is an evacuee from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He has stated that he is going to visit his mother in Lake Charles or in Oklahoma. When he does not receive the amount he wants, he becomes angry. He will then ask where the priests live. He goes to the rectory and enters by breaking the door down. This has happened at three parisehs: St. Helen in Georgetown, Santa Cruz in Buda and St. Paul in Austin. Money, computers and other electronics have been stolen.
Please instruct your staff to be on the alert for this person at the parish. They should be cautious and report the person to the local police.
Please also contact:
Georgetown Police (512-930-3510) and refer to case #0609047 (robbery at St. Helen Catholic Church);
Buda Police (512-393-7837) and refer to case #C0609052 (robbery at Santa Cruz Catholic Church).
St. Anthony in Bryan also experienced a robbery last month. Although it is not likely that it was done by the same person, nonetheless, it happened at night in the rectory while Fr. Kirby Garner was in the rectory.
Please let me know if you have any more information regarding this current case in the Austin area.

another 1 on the tower

March 21, 2006 in College with 0 Comments

Everyone close to campus remembers the crazy mob of people who visited The University of Texas following our football National Championship win at the Rose Bowl. The Tower was lit with a 1 in the “Athletic Championship” configuation. Everyone acted like they had never seen it. Without checking on the minor sports, baseball has won it all twice since I stepped foot on campus.
Well, tonight, everyone should go crazy and drive to campus to take a mindless number of pictures of the Tower.
Our Women’s Track and Field team won the NCAA Championships, held March 10-11. If you missed the Tower lit for football, go tonight and take a picture with it. It’ll look exactly the same tonight as it did after the Rose Bowl so you can fake it for football with no one being the wiser.
I love football as much as the next guy, but let’s go crazy for our other sports as well. Good job Lady Longhorns. Hook ‘Em

a little fun with the site

March 20, 2006 in Site Info with 0 Comments

Early Sunday morning, I realized I had some incorrect settings for my site’s DNS. In trying to fix it, I accidently knocked off the site for most of today.
There are various DNS servers across the Internet that help your computer know that brandonkraft.com actually points to a server with a certain IP address. Since it’s a decentralized system- part of the whole “the Internet could survive a nuclear attack” thing- it takes a little time for the update to scatter across the Internet. In practice, this means that it takes 24-36 hours normally to fully update the Internet. In some cases, although rare these days, it can take up to 72 hours.
So yeah, I was playing with one of those settings they say not to play with and I knocked myself off the grid. :-)

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