Sometime in the next few weeks, I think I’ll be making a major change to the site.  I’ve decided to move from the Serendipity blog software to WordPress.  It’s not an easy change, but the WordPress blog software has so much momentum behind it, it’s hard not to want to use it to enhance and improve both the user experience and my own.

If you want to see what the new site will more than likely look like, go take a look at BloggingPaul.  It’s my other domain that I’ve used for playing around with stuff.  I wouldn’t say it’s 100% ready yet, but it’s pretty close.

So what does this mean?  Well, not much for the readers, but for me it’s a lot of work in the background to try to move all the posts from the old blog to the new one.  So, some weekend in the future, I’ll be spending a bunch of time just making sure the old posts get converted and links to things continue to work.

I’m sure stuff will break and any old URL’s to posts won’t work, but ultimately it will be for the best.  And maybe I’ll figure out a way to keep the brain image somewhere in the new theme.

I was so busy this last weekend I missed an anniversary.  Not anything for the wife to get mad about, but instead an anniversary of a speech given by John F. Kennedy to the Houston Ministerial Association.  It was 50 years ago, on September 12th, 1960, when JFK addressed this organization because of concerns regarding his Catholic faith and how that might affect any decisions he might make should he be elected President of the United States.

"I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation, nor imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office."

Just as it should be.

Stephen Hawking is in the news again as his new book, The Grand Design, is getting ready to be released.  It’s gotten some attention because of his assertion that God is not required for the Universe to exist.  In fact, he said.

"The Universe can and will create itself from nothing."

Of course, this has sparked many on the religious side to say he’s obviously wrong.  To me, it’s like the old adage about what holds the world up?  At that time it was assumed to be flat.  The answer was, it sits on the back of a turtle.  The next obvious question would be, what is the turtle sitting on?  And the answer, it’s turtles all the way down.

So the same logic can be applied here.  If God created the Universe where did God come from?  It seems the obvious answer must be, it’s Gods all the way up.

August was another relatively slim month for movies with only 5 to review.  Here they are in no particular order.

• 11 Minutes Ago
• The Lovely Bones
• Roger Dodger
• Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
• Waiting for Armageddon

As always, click through to read the reviews and see the ratings.
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