I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment. However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural …
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end6 must die
Have any of you seen end6.org? Apparently some web sites choose to redirect their viewers to end6.org rather than render in IE6. Yes – IE6 is old. Very old. But hundreds of thousands of us are stuck using it while at work due to bad IT policies, or upgrade paranoia. Taking me to end6 instead …
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shell scripting
I’ve been playing around with bash scripting quite a bit recently in relation to my current job. Came up with one that’s really useful (imho) around chkconfig: # mass set all services known to chkconfig to be `on` or `off` at given level # written by warren myers – warren@warrenmyers.com # 28 sep 2009 echo …
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Battle Hymn of the Republic
After posting one of my fiancée’s favorites, I thought I’d post one of mine. I’ve decided to this a regular feature – a weekly (ish) song post. Lyrics from wikipedia. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He …
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Joseph coins
From AiG: The Jerusalem Post: “Archeologists Find ‘Joseph-Era’ Coins in Egypt” Archaeologists may have found evidence for the Joseph of Genesis in Egypt, a news agency has reported. Researchers in Egypt have discovered a cache of coins “bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph,” the Jerusalem Post reports. The news was originally reported …
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chips
I like [some] Pringles potato crisps. For years I wondered why it is that when you remove the lining inside the cover it often likes to rip the inner lining of the cardboard case off with it, but it was a minor inconvenience (especially in the era [many moons ago] when I’d eat a whole …
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wayfaring pilgrim
This is one of my fiancée’s favorite songs. Enjoy, sweetie 🙂 I’m just a poor wayfaring pilgrim trav’ling through this world of woe. there’s no sickness, toil nor danger In that bright world to which I go. I’m going there to meet my father I’m going there no more to roam; I am just going over Jordan …
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sriracha
How ironic. My favorite condiment at Vietnamese restaurants in the US is actually a Thai sauce. A sauce, may I add, that I have never seen in a Thai restaurant – anywhere. Sriracha is awesome – heat but not an astounding amount. And it still carries a lot of flavor, so it’s not just heat.
bad math and the digital economy
I generally like reading Seth Godin’s blog. However, this post on the digital music economy isn’t very helpful, in my opinion. “A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single …
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Warnings – to both the messenger and the recipients
Ezekiel 3:5-7 “For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you; yet the house of Israel …
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nasa searching for new challenges
I saw this in /. earlier in the week. Apparently NASA is turning to the American public for new challenge/contest ideas. I don’t know whether to be impressed that they’re trying to get new perspective.. or scared that they can’t come up with it on their own. There’s lots and lots of smart people at …
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28 done
I have just completed my 28th year as an individual person. A year ago, I worked for HP and was getting ready to go to Chicago to start the rollout of HPSA for HSBC. 11 months ago I was getting ready to go to London to participate in more HSBC stuff. 10 months ago I …
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29 starting
It’s after 23:23 Eastern time on the 2d of October 2009. This means I’ve completed my 28th year. This next one promises to be even more exciting 🙂
The Gospel and parenting
Tim Challies has posted an interview with the author of Gospel-Powered Parenting, William Farley. This book is going on my to-read-and-share list 🙂
Why was Sodom punished?
I came across this post by Dan Edelen yesterday, and want to share it with you. How quick we are to presume we know the whole story! I never noticed the passage in Ezekiel before, either! How many of the things in that list – arrogance, gluttony, apathy, uncaringness/unlovingness, haughtiness – are you and I …
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almost drr…
With the new iPod nano from Apple, it looks like someone is starting to implement a digital radio recorder. It’d be nice if it wasn’t just the “skip” or “pause” protection, but it’s a start.
one month update
It’s been a month since I last posted on my weight loss attempts. From a month ago, I’ve dropped 11 lbs. For my metric-bound acquaintances: I have no idea, so look it up 😀 Now I have a good (but somewhat costly) problem – I need new pants 😀
Downloadable Bibles
I came across a great resource yesterday: http://www.translatum.gr/bible/download.htm. Several versions available, and all free 🙂
avoiding the voicemail prompts
I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings: It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions” keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.) To be as evil as …
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Staging Responsibility
I’ve written recently about both baptism and church membership. In those two posts, I argue both that the modern concept of “membership” is wrong, and that withholding baptism from a professing believer implies a more perfect knowledge of the state of someone’s soul than a mere human can claim to have. If membership is a …
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one-way to mars
The NY Times has an interesting op-ed on this topic today. Maybe we should consider sending people on one-way trips to Mars because if they’re explorers as earth-bound ones were, presuming a return trip may be too expensive – or even undesirable. We’ve had lots of experience as humans of sending people on one-way trips. …
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on Jesus as a “man’s man”
I came across this except recently in my meanderings, and feel it is worth reprinting here. Many think of Jesus as a weak, sad looking fellow. He has been depicted as such by artists around the world for thousands of years. I could be wrong, but personally, I think Jesus was a man’s man. Remember, …
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out/open-sourcing education
Along with the /. post mentioned by Jason, is Bob Cringely’s discussion on outsourcing education. What is the emphasis on in-person education from specific professors? I’ve been asked for my transcript professionally once – and that’s because my current employer pays more attention to grades than technical aptitude. I can recall only a small handful …
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Being “of Age”
Is there an appropriate age at which someone can be considered for baptism? Is there an “age of majority” that needs to be considered before allowing someone who professes faith to be immersed in the baptistery? I am a firm adherent to believer’s baptism. When a sinner is saved by grace, it is both their …
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wedding plans
Have begun. I just got a site setup for my fiancee and I to keep our friends and family up-to-date on what’s going on: http://warrenmyers.com/wedding/. And yes – she picked the blog theme 🙂