This month I redesigned the English, Spanish and Italian editions of famvin.org. Turned out pretty nice, IMHO. Trying to use CCS styling and avoid the heavily table-driven format of native PHPNuke sites was an interesting exercise. I had to pull a couple of tricks so that the English can use the 2 column home page format while Spanish and Italian use a 3 column layout. It's not perfect, especially

I truly despise hackers - from script kiddies on down. They obviously don't have a worthwhile purpose in in life. But enough! They force me to understand more about my code and it's shortcomings than I would like to understand, but that is life, and growth. For now, I think I have the General Assembly site pretty well set up. I'd like to put that to rest and move on to other stuff. At least

I've got to fix the french and spanish on the GA site - so that the menues are in spanish and french. Good thing: some of the titles are Latin and won't need translating. The other question is where to put links to the other language sites.... on each page or just on the splash page.

I'm back in business with this blog.... I actually came back around looking for it as a result of the MT news - I don't know that I'll come over this way for good, but I do like these snazzy new template. I picked the lighthouse partly because I just like the layout, a partially because I tend to think of the famvin web presence as a sort of lighthouse for the Vincentian family. OK - so

THis is a test of how to update this famvin blog!

JUBILEE LIGHTENS DEBT Pope Appeals to Local Churches and Civil Society VATICAN CITY, JAN. 9, 2001 (ZENIT.org).- Despite the indifference that reigns in our society, John Paul II's Jubilee appeal for debt relief for developing nations has resulted in an impressive show of solidarity. The Pontiff himself acknowledged this in his recent Apostolic Letter, "Novo Millennio Ineunte," where he dedicated

U.N. MAPS HUNGER IN WORLD Africa Is First in Structural Poverty NEW YORK, JAN. 10, 2001 (ZENIT.org).- It is no news that there is hunger in the world, but the fact that the same part of the world continues to suffer spells defeat, states a report of the U.N. World Food Program, mapping out hunger in the world for the first time. The warm areas of the world are in the red and, within this

Greetings, It may interest some to know that a new resource for praying Stations of the Cross, especially with children, is available: http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/child/stations/index.html When a translation by a native Spanish speaker becomes available, it too will be published on the Web. Best regards, Patricia Patricia Tryon Bread on the Waters Web Pages http://www.cptryon.org