Now you can get your 43 Verses in a format you can stick on your blog or other personal website. Just go to your 43V "My Verses" page and add this to the URL: "?format=js". If you don't want all your verses listed, you can add another argument called "count" like this: "&count=10". So the full URL might look like this: http://43verses.com/users/show/1?format=js&count=10You can see an example of this in use at our family weblog. Scroll down a bit and look on the left where it says "Our Verses."The code for this follows: <h2>Our Verses</h2><p>from 43verses.com</p><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.43verses.com/users/show/1?format=js&count=10"></script>

There's a web service API for these older translations (all in the public domain). I'm thinking about adding them to 43V. I get chills just imagining the list of available translations growing as more translations are made available as web services. Of course, the big kahuna would be NIV, but I doubt Zondervan would ever make their content freely available. Pay per word, maybe, but never free. That's a shame.

This app is cool:

Every good Web 2.0 website needs a bookmarklet or three, right? 43V now has a Tools page where I've added a handy bookmarklet that allows you to highlight an on-screen scripture reference and look it up on 43V. Super handy for all those Verse-of-the-day emails you've been getting for the past three years.

I wanted to forewarn any readers that this blog is not necessarily politically correct all the time. I don't consider myself a backwards hick, but I do have some decent opinions about some touchy subjects, some of which may come up from time to time. I don't apologize. I had a blog in the past that served primarily as my outlet for geeky stuff (just as this one is). Occasionally, I'd throw in something about my faith as a Christian and it would invariably tick off someone and I'd get nasty comments. People would ask me to stick to the tech stuff and so on. Well, forget it.

I launched my most recent pet project: 43 Verses. The idea is simple… I needed a place to list all those darned bible verses I'm supposed to be remembering. Well, turns out I have a horible memory when it comes to this stuff, so why not make another Web app to do the work for me? Less than a day after the launch of 43V, I got an email from a long-time blog reader offering to host the thing on his reseller account (thanks again, Mike). Awesome!