Stephen Denton - Latest Comments

Re: So Long, Facebook.

Jennhutcherson — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:54:13 -0000

who in the hell wants to work out at zero dark thirty, anyway..

Re: So Long, Facebook.

Justin Lukasavige — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:20:19 -0000

Jon's invites also make me want to leave Facebook. ;)

Great job on the redesign of your site.

Re: The Heart & The Head

Keenan Erwin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:33:43 -0000

Great post, Stephen. Reminds me of a quote from the Abolition of Man:

"The heart never takes the place of the head, but it can and should obey it."

It's scary to hear someone give a message on the nature and character of God that is so far off and then see them so widely commended for it. We ought to be careful when we hear someone assert something along the lines of, "Until now, we've always believed such-and-such about God, but isn't it clear that given our experience / emotions / (ignorance), that this just can't be true?"

Thousands of years of Orthodoxy vs. some flashy, "enlightened" 40-year-old dude who's pinned his thoughts on God. It's an awful trade, but unfortunately it's a popular one.

Re: Another Reason to Love GMail: The “Partial Reply”

Bruce Ling — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:49:00 -0000

That just blew my mind

Re: I Give Money to my Friends

Justin Lukasavige — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:24:04 -0000

That exact same thing happened to me when we were at Gary's retreat last December. Upgrade I did and very happily. I was a premium member for about 9 months until I recently downgraded.

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Ferris Bueller — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:19:47 -0000

Thank you very much!! I was getting mad with the oAuth, and you saved me!! World needs more people like you!

Re: We Found the Bunny

Margie — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:37:19 -0000

What a wonderful story!

Re: We Found the Bunny

Ivy Coventry — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:09:25 -0000

We had a similar experience with Ivy Dee Ann's little boy , Tucker. We were at a Dr. office. When we went to the car Tucker wanted to know where his brown bunny was. We retraced our steps, but brown bunny was no where to be found. Next morning Ivy called the Dr. office and the bunny was found hiding right where Tucker left it. Mommy went and rescued bunny and all is well.

Re: Why Doesn’t God Answer Prayers Prayed In His Name Like He Said He Would?

Jon Dale — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:02:21 -0000

Thanks Stephen...this provides really important perspective. I'd be interested to here more of your thoughts on the need for persistant prayer on an issue.

Re: The Purpose of Humor in a Presentation

Justin Lukasavige — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:43:15 -0000

And I thought it was to keep the audience awake. At least that's how I use it. :)

I agree with over-using humor. It makes me feel like the speaker is stalling and avoiding what they really want to say.

Re: Dear Marketers: Please Quit Lying to Me

Justin Lukasavige — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:38:35 -0000

I was about to enter this sweepstakes until I read your post, Stephen. Thanks for being my voice of reason.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:50:59 -0000

Jon, you still owe me a dollar.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Jon Dale — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:47:22 -0000

From now on I'm going to charge you each time I school you in ping pong...just to make sure you value the lesson properly.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Joel G. Robertson — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:57:23 -0000

Great post! I agree that by charging you're eliminating the folks who don't really want what you're offering. But I've found that when I don't charge, or charge enough, my motivation to help someone also wains (especially if they are disinterested), which isn't fair to anyone.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:30:00 -0000

Thanks Raun!

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Raun Lauterbach — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:28:57 -0000

That's a really helpful way of defining money. As someone who has trouble charging for what comes easy to me, this makes a ton of sense.

Great "Your Story" on CoachRadio.TV, by the way.

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Stephen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:22:53 -0000

You mean as a business coach or a gigolo?

Re: Money is a Lie Detector

Justin Lukasavige — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:03:55 -0000

Absolutely agree. It's the same reason I don't give away my services. In the past, there have been too many people who wasted my time and theirs and didn't do anything with it.

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Joshep — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:33:03 -0000

Thanks!!!!

Re: I need a website for $400

Joz! — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:55:28 -0000

as a web and graphics designer (reasonably new to it), i can find actively searching for sales (through tweets) can unravel even tighter gits than your $400 friend of a friend of a friend.

i spent 2 hours talking someone through a step-by-step " the basic [knowledge] requirements when looking to buy a website on the open market" and passed my quote through at the end of it. i didn't mind wasting the 2 hours, but when that person dot.com'd me before i finished adding the decimals i was well £$%&'d to say the least.

it was a 50/50 call and i lost out there, but shish.....what happened to common courtesy!!

Re: Keds

Blessing — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:39:03 -0000

That's way more clever than I was expecting. Thsnak!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Rody van Sambeek — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:03:54 -0000

Wow, this saved me an entire evening of painful debugging. Had some problems encoding characters like é and ê for a Twitter integration, just Googled a bit before starting my own troubleshooting and found this. It did the job! Great work!

Re: Good Leaders are Expendable

Keenan Erwin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:22:49 -0000

Brilliant. I really like that.

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Tim Skipper — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:14:25 -0000

Thank you! I've been bashing my head against the oAuth wall for two days, and it turns out I was using HttpUtility.UrlEncode, which isn't suitable. I've used your replacement function and it now works.

Great post!

Re: A Proper UrlEncode Function for oAuth in C#

Juanje — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:40:19 -0000

Thank you!!!!!