Monday, July 7, 2003One of the missions of our Church is Transport for Christ. Bunny is our missionary and he's known all over the country. He's a great guy and he really shows his faith.
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Adam has a great idea... wish I had something to say that would be worth investing in and had the money to do it (one day it'll happen). He had great idea and put his money where it mattered! I read Adam's RSS feed with Radio everyday - good stuff. I like his idea even if I can't afford to do anything quite like that.
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The foam made a 16 inch hole - pretty big hole for a little piece of lightweight foam.
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Yahoo! It arrived today at about noon. The delivery guys sounded like reasonably nice guys. They took out the old fridge through the dining room and the living room - because the opening from the kitchen to the front door is too small which translates into the old fridge was fat. The spiffy white fridge with two light blubs - I gotta go look and see them again along with the adjustable door shelves - wow :-) - it's thinner and fitter than the old one so it fit through the opening to the kitchen like a champ.
We also picked up a brand new spiffy bbq grill. We went all the way on this one - straight from Walmart for the low low price of $127. I couldn't see an example of the $98 one, but the next one up was $159 and it was just too spiffy. This is our first one and we've just grilled our first meal on it and I'm telling you now - it's gonna take some time to get this right. At least dinner was edible.
The last strange thing of today was the guy at our front door. Normally, no one except kids come buy to sell stuff or maybe the mormons or the folks from the watch tower society. The mormons usually have a younger person or two go to the door with an older person waiting by the road and they are usually nicely dressed and they have information about their church. We're both Christians, so these are interesting folks to talk with once in a while - we listen and then ask about their beliefs and talk about ours (Jesus is Lord and Saviour). We pray for these folks - honest!
Maureen saw the guy at our front door - I never even heard him or I would have gone to talk with him for a while. A little while later, we were walking our dogs (Caroline, Sam & Eli) and we saw a couple of younger women going up to a house with what looked to be a slightly older gentleman waiting back a little bit - looked like a book was in their hands. Maureen asked them if they were Jehovah's Witnesses? And the surprise answer was: We're from AppleBee's. They even had little cards about AppleBee's and everything. Interesting how our preconceptions and experiences lead us to totally incorrect assumptions about what we are seeing.
An AppleBee's opened up in the next town over (Westboro) and so this was a campaign for them to advertise that they were open.
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Phones with cameras embedded seem to be showing up everywhere. Companies are finally starting to realize that this might be a problem as pictures of everything can show up just where you wouldn't want.
Technology is getting out in front of traditional culture. The fact that pictures can be shared from everywhere means that static published content value has to decrease (once it's published, it's done and a picture will eventually destroy it's value). We're approaching a time where it's easier to share than to hoard and charge to get the specialized information. Weblogs enable this along with lots of other stuff. The problem is that you can't easily find this new information that you want. Which leads to news aggregators.
It'll be cool when we can have digital paper that is wirelessly connected and always provides what you are interested to see. You can nearly have this today with a laptop a good news aggregator and wifi.
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``We want Head Start to set higher standards for the million children it serves,'' said Bush. ``No one wants Head Start to change; we just want additional focus.''
I must be missing something. If you going to change something, then how do you not change it? Wouldn't an additional focus or higher standards imply that there was going to be a change?
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This software shows you the load of a computer that is running Mac OS X by showing you a vertical bar on the left side of the screen. I like it.
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This is almost exactly what I've been hunting down. I have a linux server with lots of mp3's which already has it's sound card connected to the stereo. I've setup xmms but using vnc to access it isn't obvious (think simple and easy to understand for the usual human user). This could possibly make it easy to understand... more once I play around with it at home.
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Doc's right about this one - that's good politicking.
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Apple's iTunes takes out an older competitor. I remember an EMC business direction statement from years ago which was basically that the first company to enter a market would basically own that market. That assumption isn't true any more and probably hasn't been for quite some time.
It's all about conversation and how people are connected. I'd never even heard of Ecast before today. The Apple Music store showed up right away for me because of iTunes.
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I've been using a digital SLR (the Canon D60) since October of last year. It's a slick camera that produces some wonderful images. There have been great advances with how to handle digital images also. Adobe provided a Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw & JPEG 2000 plug-in bundle which allows me to take pictures in raw mode (i.e. capture just what is seen by the camera with no conversion to a different format like jpeg). The D60 provides 12-bits of color for each color (i.e. 36-bits of color for a given pixel) and the raw image converter can provide all of those bits (actually it can do up to 16-bits of color for each pixel for a total of 48-bits of color per pixel). You can control all kinds of details for the conversion... I've tried a few settings and the conversions are quick and very detailed. The images I've printed from such a conversion have been fantastic.
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Shell script to make self-extracting directories for unix systems - kind of like setup programs on Windows.
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