For those who don't know a blog is just a place on where some one ore many people post information on some topic or just what they are thinking about. They are pretty popular right now and they have been around for several years and I am now finally getting started on making one (not that I am making one, more of I am using this service blogger to make it).
In this blog there will be discussions of a variety of topics. Anything from current stories from Japan and my stay including pictures, to discussions on science and technology that I may have seen news articles about.
The title of this blog as you can see is up in the air right now so I will be thinking about that more in the future. You need to remember that this is going to be a public blog.
The name ehud42.blogspot.com comes from the fact that I always liked the story in Judges 3:12-30 which I will quote to you here.
12Once again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. 13 Getting the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join him Eglon came and attacked Israel and they took possession of the City of Palms. 14 The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
15 Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord and he gave them a deliver-Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. 16 Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long which he strapped to is thigh under his clothing. 17 He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 18 After ehud had presented the tribute he sent on their way the men how had carried it. 19 At the idols near gilgal he himself turned back and said "I Have a secret message for you, O king." The king said, "Quiet!" And all his attendants left him.
20 Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of this summer palace and said, "I have a message from God for you." As the king rose from his seat, 21 Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king's belly. 22 Even the handle sank in after the blade which came out his back. Ehud did not pull the sword out and the fat closed in over it. 23 Then Ehud went out to the porch; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
24 After he had gone the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the house." 25 they waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor dead.
26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah. 27 When he arrived there he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim and the Israelites went down with him from the hills with him leading them.
28 "Follow me," he ordered , "for the Lord had given Moab your enemy into your hands." So they followed him down and, taking possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab they allowed no one to cross over. 29 At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not a man escaped. 30 That day Moab was made subject to Israel and the land had peace for eighty years.
New International Version (emphasis added by me). (Possible errors added by me because I hand copied this section.)
So basically I like this guy because he is left handed, and is a all around good guy for leading Israel against the Moabites. This story is rememberable for the imagery in it. This one of the few if not the only time in the Bible that someone is mentioned explicitly who is left handed. As most people will know I am left handed so that is the connection.
The 42 is simply that comes from the fact that right now I have a IBM thinkpad T42 laptop. This also is the same user name that I use with skype, and my gmail account.
For my Rochester friends who know the story of how I got the name JapAndrew, that blog name had already been taken so that is why I had to go for Ehud42. Maybe that can become part of the title.
finally, will spend the next few post devoted to stuff that I have been meaning to tell people about but I have not gotten around to it.
So on to doing some more typing.
Andrew
(For people that are curious I had "nothing" much to do today (Sunday) so I decided to start typing up blog entries.)
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