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Entries from December 2004

Why the Bible?

December 14th, 2004 · No Comments

I found this as I was going through some of my sent messages to clean up my inbox. I thought what I said was a fairly eloquent description of the basis of some of my faith. So I thought I’d share it here. —— Of course, my allegiance to the gospels begs the question, why [...]

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Tags: Religion

Del.icio.us Bookmarks

December 12th, 2004 · 1 Comment

I just began posting bookmarks on the right of the page from my del.icio.us page.  Del.icio.us is cool because it is an online bookmark manager that allows you to attach tags to bookmarks for organization, but lists them in reverse chronological order… in other words they are posted like blog entries with the most recent [...]

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Tags: Weblogs

Presidential

December 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment

technoOne of my academic goals in life is to be a lay Presidential scholar.  I’ve read many biographies of the Clinton presidency and find them fascinating.  While I didn’t vote for him, I’d be interested in reading about George W. Bush.  And I’ve been thinking reading about Nixon and Roosevelt would be interesting.  So it [...]

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Tags: Current Affairs

Cause, Community, Corporation

December 9th, 2004 · No Comments

Years back when I was on staff at Eastside Foursquare Church we had a guest speaker by the name of Jim Dethmer come and speak to us about 3 spheres or organization in the church: Cause, Community, and Corporation.  I’ve always found the material useful, and just found a Word document online that I’ve converted [...]

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Tags: Religion

Getting Things Done and ADB Idea Library

December 7th, 2004 · 1 Comment

I’m getting a lot of things done with the book ">Getting Things Done.  If you haven’t already discovered it, check it out from the library or order it using the link supplied.  In addition, I wanted to call attention to ADB Idea Library a freeform database that works perfectly alongside Getting Things Done.  I’m able [...]

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Tags: Getting Things Done · Web/Tech

Smile

December 2nd, 2004 · 1 Comment

I’m pretty good at obsessing.  I’ve practiced it for years, and when you practice something you get good at it.  My current obsession is Brian Wilson’s (Beach Boys) new album Smile.   First of all, the music is excellent.  This album is the follow up to the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.  But what pushes the album [...]

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Tags: Music