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Entries from July 2005

Hooray for the PDA

July 30th, 2005 · No Comments

With all the hoopla over the hipster PDA and moleskine, you’d think the PocketPC and Palm passe. Not at all says G-Boy. Check out the article. Personally, a moleskine would never be able to hold the daily office from universalis. And I agree with point #1. You can’t padlock a moleskine or notecards. Technorati Tags: [...]

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Tags: Getting Things Done

Brokenness

July 29th, 2005 · No Comments

In my own life I’ve found that brokenness is where God finds us ready to grow. The most profound growth in my relationship with God occurred when I dug out from under the rubble when my life fell apart. In 2Corinthians 10:7-10 the apostle Paul writes “By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, [...]

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Tags: Religion · Sermons

Spiritual Discoveries

July 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Prayer is part of my job description. I’m a pastor. But prayer is something we should all do but often feel inadequate at. My habit is to spend time in the day in prayer, using tools such as the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer and a personal Labyrinth. Today I felt led to expand my [...]

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Tags: Religion

Mac Keyboard Ergonomics

July 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

I go through seasons when tendonitis flares up in my right hand from using the track pad on my laptop. It started years ago when I was playing the piano too much at work and doing lots of composition work on a computer using a mouse. Since then, I’m susceptible to it when I’m using [...]

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Tags: Web/Tech

Seeing things from the plant’s point of view

July 21st, 2005 · 1 Comment

“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” -H. Fred Ale I have had fantasies about myself as a gardener. I went through this simple living phase where I thought we’d live off the land… have a garden, chickens, [...]

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Tags: Culture · Family · Stories about Life

Discoveries

July 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Macresponder Automated email responder for when you’re unavailable Ten ways to organize and simplify your life Google Moon On the anniversary of the first manned moon landing on July 20th, 1969, Google releases Google Moon, a map of NASA photos and Google style points showing all the moon landings. Wapipedia A mobile phone site that [...]

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Tags: Culture · Music · Religion · Web/Tech

50 Years of Chaos

July 18th, 2005 · No Comments

Clay Shirky believes that convergent technologies that provide people with the tools to produce and share content will throw the relationship between lay people and institutions into turmoil. I ask, what impact will this have on the loftiest of institutions, the church? Read on Technorati Tags: emergingchurch

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Tags: Culture · Religion · Social Networking/Community · Web/Tech

Office Update

July 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment

My office is now clean. And I m-o-v-e-d my desk! Radical! It’s a whole new world.

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I’m a Fan

July 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

I’m a fan. I know, I know… you’re asking “a fan of what?” It doesn’t matter, really. Whatever it is, I’m a fan. When I like something, I really like it. Take for example Brian Wilson. Awhile back, I was studying studio production, and began bumping into raves of Brian Wilson’s work with the Beach [...]

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Browsing tech

July 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment

Here’s an article on Seven Tips toward faster web browsing I was a big fan of tabbed browsing. It first appeared in Mozilla’s Firefox and then in Apple’s Safari. Supposedly that dinosaur of a web browser Internet Explorer is going to add it to their next version. One of the reasons I liked tabbed browsing [...]

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