Archive for April, 2007

Not that anyone would necessarily notice, but I’ve removed all SiteMeter tracking from the site. See, the blog was loading slowly, so I started running some tests, looking over everything with a fine-toothed comb. That’s when I found a rather conspicuous entry: a cookie from specificclick.net.

I did a search on the address, and found a number of blog posts all saying the same thing: on or around March 25, 2007, SiteMeter quietly accepted an unspecified amount of money and, in return, started embedding specificclick.net cookies into the pages of almost every SiteMeter account holder.

To date, the SiteMeter crew has said nothing about this outside of a few blog posts—nothing about specificclick.net is mentioned on SiteMeter.com, except for a vague “we’re adding new features” bit o’ hype that fails to mention how the new features are going to be collected.

Shane over at AskShane.org said it best:

Screw Up? Don’t Try to Hide

• Admit you screwed up.
• Say what you’re doing to fix it.
• Offer some kind of appropriate compensation.

Because SiteMeter has used me to infect y’all’s computers, it’s the least I can do to point you to something that’ll show you how to remove specificclick.net cookies and block them forever.

What is the race marked out for you? Are you running it with endurance?

If not, the trouble could be some clingy sin that’s got you tangled up. But maybe not; maybe the problem is something that isn’t sin, but is still holding you back.

• What are you lugging around that’s slowing you down?
• What are you letting distract you from your life’s calling?
• Why won’t you let it go?

These are questions I’m asking myself. I can get so wrapped up in fun distractions that aren’t sin, or even in Godly endeavors that I haven’t been called to do, that I just don’t do what I’m here for. But you know what? There is a “great cloud of witnesses”—a stadium full of those who have gone before us—who surround us. They’ve accomplished what we’re being called to accomplish. It can be done.

So this weekend, let’s take a look at the race we’re running, and consider what may need to be laid aside so that we can run the race marked out for us. Not the race we’d prefer to run, because we’re to look to the Author and Perfecter of our faith—Jesus, who endured the pain and shame of his race, and did it for what he knew was coming when he crossed the finish line.

Let’s drop the distractions, and look at Christ instead. Let’s stop puttering around the track, and run with endurance.