Jeffrey C. Long

I’ve been meaning to write for quite some time on some of the software and habits that have made my life work so much better. I often harp online about people backing up. My coworker recently had her computer crash and she lost all of her pictures. I just got an external hard drive and [...]

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Just a reminder that if you haven’t recently, take some time out to backup your computer. I just backed up my itunes library to a second hard drive. I’m proud to say that I have 63gigs of music. Goodheavens! Not on my main drive. My archive. Anyway. I have two back ups. One to an [...]

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Last Sunday I attended the church The Bridge http://www.thebridge-pdx.org in Portland. Great church. The most startling aspect was the art going on. People were worshiping by doing art. You can read more about them on their website. Be sure and follow the links to their music at http://www.agentsoffuture.com/ and their myspace group at http://groups.myspace.com/thebridgechurch Speaking [...]

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Today I was listening to MacBreak weekly and thought I finally needed to say out loud how happy I am that the TechTV crew has returned on the TWIT podcast network, DL.TV and Cranky Geeks. Years ago, my wife and I used to sit around and watch the Screensavers with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton [...]

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A simple discipline of Christians throughout the centuries has been the reading of the psalms at different times of the day. At various times of the past year I have practiced what is called Lauds, Vespers and Compline, or morning prayer, evening prayer and night prayer. I’ve been aided in this practice by the website [...]

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I am more and more trying to get away from proprietary formats for word processing, i.e. Microsoft Word and Apple’s Pages. This allows portability because files are saved in RTF or straight ascii. One trick I’ve posted before is to set your default application for opening a .doc document in the Mac to textedit. I’m [...]

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Just discovered Elvis Costello again. He was on Austin City Limits a few nights ago. Wow. What an energetic performer. I’d love to have some of his music, but I can’t afford it at the moment. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a wishlist like we do at Amazon, only in the iTunes Music Store. [...]

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I’ve had email since before I had internet. We had a Juno account back in my primitive Compaq days. Since that time I believe that I’ve had at least 15 different email accounts, each with varying degrees of clutter. One of the things that’s helped keep my ministry fresh has been email discussion groups which [...]

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I’m going to publish a series of Tech-tips for the techy readers to my website. For those of you who come here for Jeffrey-thoughts and sermons, bear with me. Did you know that since Mac OS 10.3 the Mac has a built in converter for Word .doc documents? This means that Textedit can open Word [...]

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A week ago, the family took my daughter to the airport in Boise so she could fly back to our hometown. When we arrived at the airport and got of the car, I heard a tell-tale hissing sound. Unfortunately, I had to get my daughter inside, so I didn’t have any time to deal with [...]

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