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Thursday, December 28, 2006
I have no accent...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 for Mac
A good friend of mine gave me a first generation iPod shuffle that could not be recognized. They had given up trying to fix it and knew I tinkered. Soooo..... if I could fix it, then I would have my very first iPod! Woo Hoo!
I dug around on the internet for a bit and came accross this magical tool on Apple's website called the iPod shuffle reset utility. After a few minutes of downloading, installing, and running I know am the proud owner of my first iPod. If your in a similar fix, follow me down the rabbit's hole....
(From Apple's website...)
About iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 for Mac
The iPod shuffle Reset Utility restores First Generation iPod shuffle. The restore process completely erases all music and data on iPod shuffle and reinstalls software version 1.1.5.
Note:
iPod shuffle Reset Utility is only for First Generation 512MB and 1GB iPod shuffle. Any other iPod, including Second Generation iPod shuffle is not supported. If you are not sure which iPod you have, see Apple Support document 61688: Identifying different iPod models
Use the iPod shuffle Reset Utility to fix the following issues:
I dug around on the internet for a bit and came accross this magical tool on Apple's website called the iPod shuffle reset utility. After a few minutes of downloading, installing, and running I know am the proud owner of my first iPod. If your in a similar fix, follow me down the rabbit's hole....
(From Apple's website...)
About iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0.1 for Mac
The iPod shuffle Reset Utility restores First Generation iPod shuffle. The restore process completely erases all music and data on iPod shuffle and reinstalls software version 1.1.5.
Note:
iPod shuffle Reset Utility is only for First Generation 512MB and 1GB iPod shuffle. Any other iPod, including Second Generation iPod shuffle is not supported. If you are not sure which iPod you have, see Apple Support document 61688: Identifying different iPod models
Use the iPod shuffle Reset Utility to fix the following issues:
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Happy Birthday Nathaniel!
In honor of what would have been my son's first birthday...
Men Do Cry
By Ken Falk
I heard quite often "men don’t cry"
Though no one ever told me why.
So when I fell and skinned a knee,
No one came by to comfort me.
And when some bully-boy at school
Would pull a prank so mean and cruel,
I’d quickly learn to turn and quip,
"It doesn’t hurt," and bite my lip.
So as I grew to reasoned years,
I learned to stifle any tears.
Though "Be a big boy" it began,
Quite soon I learned to "Be a man."
And I could play that stoic role
While storm and tempest wracked my soul.
No pain or setback could there be
Could wrest one single tear from me.
Then one long night I stood nearby
And helplessly watched my son die.
And quickly found, to my surprise,
That all that tearless talk was lies.
And still I cry, and have no shame.
I cannot play that "big boy" game.
And openly, without remorse,
I let my sorrow take its course.
So those of you who can’t abide
A man you’ve seen who’s often cried,
Reach out to him with all your heart
As one whose life’s been torn apart.
For men DO cry when they can see
Their loss of immortality.
And tears will come in endless streams
When mindless fate destroys their dreams.
Men Do Cry
By Ken Falk
I heard quite often "men don’t cry"
Though no one ever told me why.
So when I fell and skinned a knee,
No one came by to comfort me.
And when some bully-boy at school
Would pull a prank so mean and cruel,
I’d quickly learn to turn and quip,
"It doesn’t hurt," and bite my lip.
So as I grew to reasoned years,
I learned to stifle any tears.
Though "Be a big boy" it began,
Quite soon I learned to "Be a man."
And I could play that stoic role
While storm and tempest wracked my soul.
No pain or setback could there be
Could wrest one single tear from me.
Then one long night I stood nearby
And helplessly watched my son die.
And quickly found, to my surprise,
That all that tearless talk was lies.
And still I cry, and have no shame.
I cannot play that "big boy" game.
And openly, without remorse,
I let my sorrow take its course.
So those of you who can’t abide
A man you’ve seen who’s often cried,
Reach out to him with all your heart
As one whose life’s been torn apart.
For men DO cry when they can see
Their loss of immortality.
And tears will come in endless streams
When mindless fate destroys their dreams.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
Amazon.com Customer service #
I like to get this out at least once a year. If you are dealing with Amazon for holiday purchases and need customer service on a phone, this is the phone number 1(800)201-7575
(It is not available from their website)
Happy online shopping!
(It is not available from their website)
Happy online shopping!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Why are young adults not finding their places in their parents’ church?
I found this on "Out of Ur", one of the blogs I read regularly. This article hit close to home, as I am heavily envolved with the Young Adults group at my church.
Many churches struggle to reach the ever-elusive young adult demographic. Are 20-somethings simply disinterested in church? Not according to Brian McLaren. He believes we are failing to listen to the questions young adults are asking.
This post is a preview of McLaren’s commentary in the upcoming Fall issue of Leadership. Here the Emergent leader encourages churches and parents to begin investigating why young adults are leaving the church—not to argue them back into the fold, but simply to understand their perspective.
There was irony in the title of the old TV game show Family Feud. The irony was that the feuding between families was much less intense than the cheering within families as members tried to answer the same trivia questions.
In our churches, family feuds of another sort arise when members of the same family are asking different questions. For example:
In the third row, left side, mom and dad are asking how they can raise their 14-year-old daughter so she will never rebel and never get in trouble. Meanwhile, their daughter, seated with her friends in the last pew, is asking how she can get out from under their control.
Or in the ninth row, another mom and dad are wondering how they can be sure their 18-year-old son will (a) go to a good college and get a good education so he can have a good job and a good life, and (b) not be exposed to philosophical, scientific, or political questions that may cause him to question his faith. But their son, sitting with his girlfriend in the pew directly behind them, is asking how he can find a college where he can ask the philosophical, scientific, and political questions he has already been exposed to in high school.
These families share something in common: their young
Many churches struggle to reach the ever-elusive young adult demographic. Are 20-somethings simply disinterested in church? Not according to Brian McLaren. He believes we are failing to listen to the questions young adults are asking.
This post is a preview of McLaren’s commentary in the upcoming Fall issue of Leadership. Here the Emergent leader encourages churches and parents to begin investigating why young adults are leaving the church—not to argue them back into the fold, but simply to understand their perspective.
There was irony in the title of the old TV game show Family Feud. The irony was that the feuding between families was much less intense than the cheering within families as members tried to answer the same trivia questions.
In our churches, family feuds of another sort arise when members of the same family are asking different questions. For example:
In the third row, left side, mom and dad are asking how they can raise their 14-year-old daughter so she will never rebel and never get in trouble. Meanwhile, their daughter, seated with her friends in the last pew, is asking how she can get out from under their control.
Or in the ninth row, another mom and dad are wondering how they can be sure their 18-year-old son will (a) go to a good college and get a good education so he can have a good job and a good life, and (b) not be exposed to philosophical, scientific, or political questions that may cause him to question his faith. But their son, sitting with his girlfriend in the pew directly behind them, is asking how he can find a college where he can ask the philosophical, scientific, and political questions he has already been exposed to in high school.
These families share something in common: their young
Monday, October 16, 2006
Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen
Here is a nice way to automate the Windows logon process if you are on a single user machine that is secure in your home or office...
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type
control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]"
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type
control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]"
Friday, October 13, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Apple iPhone to be Cingular exclusive
"Apple and Cingular have signed an agreement that will make the US' largest cell phone provider the exclusive carrier of Apple's forthcoming phone, sources report. Apple's iPhone remains on track for an early 2007 release. Apple's phone will feature a candy-bar design with a 2.2-inch display and 3 megapixel camera. Robust iTunes and iSync support will also be delivered with the phone.
Apple's exclusive contract with Cingular is said to be good for the first six months, sources report, meaning other providers will be able to sell the phone in the second-half of 2007. Cingular had an exclusive on the Motorola ROKR—the first phone to feature iTunes—when it launched last year.
Sources say Apple is in talks with providers in other parts of the world on exclusive deals, but are short on specifics. O2 had the exclusive on the ROKR in Europe, however, suggesting that provider may again be tapped to launch Apple's phone.
Meanwhile, insiders say Apple is internally estimating that shipments of the iPhone will top a staggering 25 million in 2007 alone. Motorola's RAZR, by contrast, has sold more than 50 million units since its launch in late 2004. Apple is betting a phone with Apple's iconic design, elegant interface, and iPod-matching functionality will be a strong draw for users who currently carry both devices on them."
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Bypass The Windows XP Log On Screen
To make logon an unattended process:
Click [Start] [Run] and type
control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]"
Click [Start] [Run] and type
control userpasswords2
Click [OK]
The [User Accounts] Property Sheet displays.
On [Users] tab, clear the [Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer] check box.
Click [Apply].
Enter a user name and password that should be used to logon automatically in the dialog box that appears.
Click [OK].
Go to [Control Panel] [User Accounts] [Change the Way Users Log On and Off].
Uncheck [Use the Welcome Screen] and [Use Fast User Switching]"
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Suggestions For Christian Growth
Spiritual growth results from trusting Jesus Christ. "The righteous man shall live by faith" (Galatians 3:11). A life of faith will enable you to trust God increasingly with every detail of your life, and to practice the following:
G
Go to God in prayer daily (John 15:7).
R
Read God's Word daily (Acts 17:11) - begin with the Gospel of John.
O
Obey God moment by moment (John 14:21).
W
Witness for Christ by your life and words (Matthew 4:19; John 15:8).
T
Trust God for every detail of your life (1 Peter 5:7).
H
Holy Spirit - Allow Him to control and empower your daily life and witness (Galatians 5:16,17; Acts 1:8).
G
Go to God in prayer daily (John 15:7).
R
Read God's Word daily (Acts 17:11) - begin with the Gospel of John.
O
Obey God moment by moment (John 14:21).
W
Witness for Christ by your life and words (Matthew 4:19; John 15:8).
T
Trust God for every detail of your life (1 Peter 5:7).
H
Holy Spirit - Allow Him to control and empower your daily life and witness (Galatians 5:16,17; Acts 1:8).
Monday, September 25, 2006
Too Much To Handle?
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Teresa
-Mother Teresa
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Me Got Brain!
I have an IQ of 157!
I am in the 99th percentile!
This means that I did better than 99 percent of the people who have taken this test!
The average score for this test is 100.
The maximum score is 167.
The minimum score is 66.
I am in the 99th percentile!
This means that I did better than 99 percent of the people who have taken this test!
The average score for this test is 100.
The maximum score is 167.
The minimum score is 66.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
MacFixIt - Tutorial: Installing Classic over a current Mac OS X installation
If you have a Mac capable of running Classic (i.e., not an Intel-based Mac) but either reformatted the drive and installed only Mac OS X, or acquired the machine with only Mac OS X installed, you may want to install the Classic (Mac OS 9) environment overtop the Mac OS X installation. Doing so is a surprisingly daunting task, but there are several options for doing so.The first thing to do is determine what type of Mac OS 9 installation disc you are using.
First, if you have a bootable Mac OS 9 Software Restore CD, Apple recommends that you erase your hard drive and start with a clean install to perform the multi-disc restore as described in Knowledge Base article #60847.
However, if you don't need to boot Mac OS 9 but only need to run the Classic environment, you can work around having to do a clean install via the following process:
1. You will need to temporarily make all folders visible -- this can be accomplished with a utility like TinkerTool or via the Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE (You will need to re-launch the Finder after toggling this option by logging out and back in)
2. Next, insert your Mac OS 9 restore CD. You will see a folder called ".images" on it. Open that folder.
3. Double-click on the file "OS9General.dmg." This will mount a Mac OS 9 system disk image.
4. Inside of this disk image will be a folder titled "System Folder." Copy this folder to the root level of your Mac OS X startup drive.
5. Re-launch TinkerTool and make hidden folders invisible again, or use this Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool FALSE
6. Log out then back in again. You should now be able to start Classic from its pane in System Preferences.
If not, you may need to re-bless the Mac OS 9 System Folder per this Knowledge Base article.
Second, if you have a non-bootable Software Restore CD which includes Mac OS 9.2.2, you can simply insert the dic, open Software Restore, and select to restore only Mac OS 9.
If you have a standalone Mac OS 9 retail CD, you can try the same steps listed for the restoration disc, though you may run into issues depending on how new your Mac model is.
Caveat: Mac OS X 10.4.x upgraders Note that if your Mac originally shipped with Mac OS X 10.2.x or Mac OS X 10.3.x and you updated to Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger), you may run into issues restoring from original (Software Restore) media. In that case, you will need to perform an erase and install of Mac OS X 10.2.x then re-update to Mac OS X 10.4.x per Knowledge Base document #301468, or attempt copying the Mac OS 9 system folder as described above.
Installing a bootable copy of Mac OS 9 If you have a Mac that is capable of booting Mac OS 9 (any system that shipped before January 2003) and would like to do so, you may need to install the Mac OS 9 disk drivers.
This can be accomplished by either erasing your hard drive and installing Mac OS 9/Mac OS X from the media that came with your Mac, making sure to check the "Install Mac OS 9 disk drivers" option
Otherwise, you can clone your drive to an external volume using a utility like SuperDuper, then erase your normal startup drive, install Mac OS 9 disk drivers on it, then copy that data from the cloned drive back.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Our testimony, this year...
After a few requests, here is the first of my three part series on faith. This was more a testimony of what my wife and I had gone through in the past 8 or so months and how God changed us and grew us and got us through it all.
First, thank you for allowing us to come and speak to you. I consider this a great honor. May God bless you by the telling of our testimony that He has given us.
Lets pray….
My name is Brian Spears; this is my lovely wife Trisha Spears. We were married last year on March 19. We were blessed with a pregnancy right away. Early in the pregnancy, our son was diagnosed with a diaphragmatic hernia. This means part of his stomach and intestines had formed up in his chest cavity and were impairing the growth of his lunges and possibly his heart. After he was born on December 9th, 2005 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, he was rushed to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis; where he lived for 53 days. Nathaniel Gabriel Spears died February 1st, 2006. We would like to tell you some of this story, what it has meant to us, and how it has changed us.
Psalms 139:13-16 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
God knew exactly what Nathaniel would go through, before he had even been born. God had a specific purpose for him. He had a job to do.
First, I need to tell you a little about me. You must see that God has saved me from my sin and myself. His mercy and grace are changing me every day. I was born in an unhealthy abusive home. My mother tried to push a legalistic view of Christianity down my throat, while my father verbally abused me, beat me, and ran away from God himself. When I turned 18, I swore I would never walk into a church again. This is where I ran away from God. I began smoking and drinking heavily. I started using people, both friends and family. I began a life of deceit and theft, first from those close to me, then from strangers and work. I was miserable and constantly looking over my shoulder for trouble coming my way. The patient love and unconditional acceptance from my sister and brother in law brought me to Indiana. Here I found salvation. Here I found my wife and my church. Here I have started my relationship with God.
Romans 8:31 (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
We all have jobs to do. And God stands with us, guaranteeing that we can get them done.
Within weeks of being married, Trisha and I found out she was pregnant. We could not have been happier! A short time into the pregnancy, we were told our baby had a birth defect. His internal organs were not growing where they were supposed to grow. He would need surgery very soon after birth. From my childhood, I had memorized one verse: Proverbs 3:5-6. (NKJV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. This became my lifeline to God. I knew that if I trusted God and did my best, then He had promised to take care of everything else. The tests had just begun. When Nathaniel was one day old, I followed an ambulance down to Indianapolis. A good friend drove, because I had not slept in two days. Trisha had had to have a c-section, so she was forced to stay in Fort Wayne for several more days. I was torn, between being with my wife, or being with my son. That was hard, but we both knew Nathaniel needed me more. By the time I arrived at Riley hospital, he already had many tubes and wires connected to him. They were preparing him for the first of possibly many procedures. He did not have the luxury of crying. There was a tube down his throat from minutes after birth, for all the rest of his days.
God did not hesitate. On the drive down, I began looking for a place to stay when I got there. We could never have afforded a hotel. I called the Ronald McDonald house at the recommendation of nurses at Lutheran hospital. The lady I spoke to, gave us a room and told me it was their last. I later found out that the normal waiting list was one or two months. We were the only people that they could remember in years getting in that easy. Thank you God!
Psalms 118:1 (NIV)
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
I went to Nathaniel’s room for the first time and found 6 or 8 nurses taking care of 10 or 12 babies. I was overwhelmed to learn that there were five more rooms in this wing of the hospital like Nathaniel’s and there were four more wings on our floor. We were on the fifth floor. There were hundreds of very sick babies with hundreds of scared, tired, worried parents there, all being cared for.
Trisha arrived two days later. She was wheelchair bound as she healed. Because of a limitation in parking, I would push her wheelchair over to the hospital and back everyday for weeks. Once again, God took care of us. We found out Trisha actually had a choice of free meals. The Ronald McDonald house had a stocked kitchen and pantry so we could cook our own meals for free. The hospital also made three meals a day free available to any mother that was breast-feeding. Trisha could not yet, with the tubes in his throat, but was pumping and remaining ready for him when he could.
A week turned into a month. A month turned into almost eight weeks. Our days blended together. We would spend all the time we could with him. Sleep, or at least try, between visits and emergency phone calls rushing us back over to the room. We were blessed with many friends that came down regularly and spent time with us. Prayed for us. Visited with us. Cleaned our house in anticipation of our return. Took care of Trisha’s cats. Even removed snow from our drive in case we would get to come home before it melted. Thank you God!
There are 50 rooms for families at the Ronald McDonald house. We got to meet many people. We saw parents disappear into thin air, only to find out their child had passed away in the night and they had left to go home. We saw parents leaving with tears of joy, when they got to take their babies home. We saw some return, when new problems arose.
I kept everyone I knew with email up to date as often as I could. I asked for prayer. I gave good reports and bad. I want to read you one I wrote two days before he passed.
email below...
The next day, we both got a pleasant surprise. If you were to line up all the parents that were staying at the Ronald McDonald house and choose the least likely person to have anything to do with God, that person would have been Roger. As we were walking home early that morning, Roger came up to us and asked if we wanted to be part of a prayer circle. It seems he had spoken to a missionary that was also staying at the house while his son was being treated. The missionary had offered to pray with Roger about his daughter that was there. She needed a bowl movement to signal her recovery was starting. They prayed, and the next day she had that bowl movement! Thank you God! Now, Roger wanted to get as many parents together as he could, so we could all pray with each other and for our children. Trisha and I looked at each other with that confused “Why didn’t we think of this eight weeks ago?” look. We smiled and told Roger we would definitely be there. A few hours later we were sitting in a circle with about 15 parents. The missionary and his wife were there, and we even found an evangelist in the group. Roger started. “I don’t know much about this prayer stuff, so if someone wants to start go right ahead.”, he exclaimed. Several of us took turns, and before it was all said and done, even Roger had put in his two cents. Afterward, Trisha and I helped the evangelist lead a young mother to Christ. It was as if God stopped everything just to give us a glimpse into the “why” of it all.
The next morning, the last morning, after Nathaniel had passed away in my arms; one of our nurses stopped us and said she had worked there 15 years and had never seen what she had seen in us. She was touched by the way we handed Nathaniel back to God. She commented that we would be surprised at the faces we would see in heaven because of what they had seen in us during our stay. Thank you God!
Proverbs 10:6 (NIV)
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 2:7-8 (KJV)
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV)
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
“in season and out of season”. This is not talking about fall or winter. Here it is saying, “Live a life of example for the glory of God, whether you feel like it or not.”
God always takes care of the righteous. The reason we get confused when something doesn’t seem to go our way, especially when we think we are doing everything the right way, is because we have a warped sense of what righteous means. Literally, it means “right” or “in right standing with God”. Our opinion of what is right and wrong, what is fair, and what is just; tells us when to consider something righteous. Many times Trisha and I have asked God “Why did this happen to Nathaniel?”, and “Why did we have to go through this?” We have told Him, “This is not fair!” But the truth is, if we put our trust in God, the One that made us all, then try our best-whether we feel like it or not; God has promised He will take care of everything else. When God takes care of our situations, it does not always mean He will do what you expect. Usually, it means we will be surprised.
Matthew 7:7 (NIV)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 6:8 (NIV)
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
What do you want?
Ask, according to His will, and He will give it to you.
God knows what you need even before you ask.
As you draw closer to God, you will stop asking for things.
“But”, you say, “Why do I ask for things, then?”
So you can get to know HIM!
Last fall, my care group came up with something that rhymes. It is something I told them over and over again. I want you to repeat after me,
Let’s pray
First, thank you for allowing us to come and speak to you. I consider this a great honor. May God bless you by the telling of our testimony that He has given us.
Lets pray….
My name is Brian Spears; this is my lovely wife Trisha Spears. We were married last year on March 19. We were blessed with a pregnancy right away. Early in the pregnancy, our son was diagnosed with a diaphragmatic hernia. This means part of his stomach and intestines had formed up in his chest cavity and were impairing the growth of his lunges and possibly his heart. After he was born on December 9th, 2005 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, he was rushed to Riley Hospital in Indianapolis; where he lived for 53 days. Nathaniel Gabriel Spears died February 1st, 2006. We would like to tell you some of this story, what it has meant to us, and how it has changed us.
Psalms 139:13-16 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
God knew exactly what Nathaniel would go through, before he had even been born. God had a specific purpose for him. He had a job to do.
First, I need to tell you a little about me. You must see that God has saved me from my sin and myself. His mercy and grace are changing me every day. I was born in an unhealthy abusive home. My mother tried to push a legalistic view of Christianity down my throat, while my father verbally abused me, beat me, and ran away from God himself. When I turned 18, I swore I would never walk into a church again. This is where I ran away from God. I began smoking and drinking heavily. I started using people, both friends and family. I began a life of deceit and theft, first from those close to me, then from strangers and work. I was miserable and constantly looking over my shoulder for trouble coming my way. The patient love and unconditional acceptance from my sister and brother in law brought me to Indiana. Here I found salvation. Here I found my wife and my church. Here I have started my relationship with God.
Romans 8:31 (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
We all have jobs to do. And God stands with us, guaranteeing that we can get them done.
Within weeks of being married, Trisha and I found out she was pregnant. We could not have been happier! A short time into the pregnancy, we were told our baby had a birth defect. His internal organs were not growing where they were supposed to grow. He would need surgery very soon after birth. From my childhood, I had memorized one verse: Proverbs 3:5-6. (NKJV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. This became my lifeline to God. I knew that if I trusted God and did my best, then He had promised to take care of everything else. The tests had just begun. When Nathaniel was one day old, I followed an ambulance down to Indianapolis. A good friend drove, because I had not slept in two days. Trisha had had to have a c-section, so she was forced to stay in Fort Wayne for several more days. I was torn, between being with my wife, or being with my son. That was hard, but we both knew Nathaniel needed me more. By the time I arrived at Riley hospital, he already had many tubes and wires connected to him. They were preparing him for the first of possibly many procedures. He did not have the luxury of crying. There was a tube down his throat from minutes after birth, for all the rest of his days.
God did not hesitate. On the drive down, I began looking for a place to stay when I got there. We could never have afforded a hotel. I called the Ronald McDonald house at the recommendation of nurses at Lutheran hospital. The lady I spoke to, gave us a room and told me it was their last. I later found out that the normal waiting list was one or two months. We were the only people that they could remember in years getting in that easy. Thank you God!
Psalms 118:1 (NIV)
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
I went to Nathaniel’s room for the first time and found 6 or 8 nurses taking care of 10 or 12 babies. I was overwhelmed to learn that there were five more rooms in this wing of the hospital like Nathaniel’s and there were four more wings on our floor. We were on the fifth floor. There were hundreds of very sick babies with hundreds of scared, tired, worried parents there, all being cared for.
Trisha arrived two days later. She was wheelchair bound as she healed. Because of a limitation in parking, I would push her wheelchair over to the hospital and back everyday for weeks. Once again, God took care of us. We found out Trisha actually had a choice of free meals. The Ronald McDonald house had a stocked kitchen and pantry so we could cook our own meals for free. The hospital also made three meals a day free available to any mother that was breast-feeding. Trisha could not yet, with the tubes in his throat, but was pumping and remaining ready for him when he could.
A week turned into a month. A month turned into almost eight weeks. Our days blended together. We would spend all the time we could with him. Sleep, or at least try, between visits and emergency phone calls rushing us back over to the room. We were blessed with many friends that came down regularly and spent time with us. Prayed for us. Visited with us. Cleaned our house in anticipation of our return. Took care of Trisha’s cats. Even removed snow from our drive in case we would get to come home before it melted. Thank you God!
There are 50 rooms for families at the Ronald McDonald house. We got to meet many people. We saw parents disappear into thin air, only to find out their child had passed away in the night and they had left to go home. We saw parents leaving with tears of joy, when they got to take their babies home. We saw some return, when new problems arose.
I kept everyone I knew with email up to date as often as I could. I asked for prayer. I gave good reports and bad. I want to read you one I wrote two days before he passed.
email below...
Hello all,
I want to give you an update on Nathaniel.
Nathaniel is stable today. He has been for two days. This does not mean what it meant last month. Last month stable was good. Today it means he is still not using his kidneys and the toxins in his blood are attacking his major organs. Until two weeks ago, our primary focus in prayer and all we thought about day and night was “Please God grow his lungs”. That has become secondary. If he does not pee, he will die. The most encouraging thing any doctor has said was said today. Doctor Little told us he considered Nathaniel a strong fighter and he was surprised (pleasantly) that he was still here. Over the last two and a half weeks, Trisha and I have had many “meetings” with doctors. We do not look forward to them. After the first few we knew exactly what we were in for. They sit us down and tell us there is nothing more they can do for him, unless we want them to pull the support early. Trisha and I have had many long hard talks about this. We have asked that he be listed as a “partial code”. This means the doctors and nurses will do everything they can if his heart stops again, except manual chest compressions. As it has been explained to us, they can use drugs and paddles without pain and with possible help, but chest compressions cause him pain and leave him worse off than before. Trisha and I look at it this way. He is fighting right now. Nathaniel is beating his heart (with the strength of the Lord) on his own without aid from machines or medicine. When he can no longer do that, we feel God will be saying “let him come home to me.” Until then, in spite of doctor opinion, as long as he fights, we stand by him. Please continue to pray for us all. Pray that God will give Nathaniel the strength to live the life he is called to, whether it is 90 days or 90 years. That God will give him comfort and not allow him to hurt during this fight. That God will give Trisha and I the wisdom, the strength, and the unity to do the jobs God has given us. I firmly believe God has put us all here for a specific purpose, we are each puzzle pieces of a giant jig-saw puzzle for God. No two pieces are alike. We all have our own assignment. I believe Nathaniel is in the spiritual battle of his life, and doing the assignment God has given him. Please pray that Trisha and I will continue to do ours. This is the hardest thing either of us has ever done. I would not trade it for anything. As I have said many times, I have been given the best gift of my entire life. It does not matter if the gift lasts days or years, I am so happy to have received him.
The next day, we both got a pleasant surprise. If you were to line up all the parents that were staying at the Ronald McDonald house and choose the least likely person to have anything to do with God, that person would have been Roger. As we were walking home early that morning, Roger came up to us and asked if we wanted to be part of a prayer circle. It seems he had spoken to a missionary that was also staying at the house while his son was being treated. The missionary had offered to pray with Roger about his daughter that was there. She needed a bowl movement to signal her recovery was starting. They prayed, and the next day she had that bowl movement! Thank you God! Now, Roger wanted to get as many parents together as he could, so we could all pray with each other and for our children. Trisha and I looked at each other with that confused “Why didn’t we think of this eight weeks ago?” look. We smiled and told Roger we would definitely be there. A few hours later we were sitting in a circle with about 15 parents. The missionary and his wife were there, and we even found an evangelist in the group. Roger started. “I don’t know much about this prayer stuff, so if someone wants to start go right ahead.”, he exclaimed. Several of us took turns, and before it was all said and done, even Roger had put in his two cents. Afterward, Trisha and I helped the evangelist lead a young mother to Christ. It was as if God stopped everything just to give us a glimpse into the “why” of it all.
The next morning, the last morning, after Nathaniel had passed away in my arms; one of our nurses stopped us and said she had worked there 15 years and had never seen what she had seen in us. She was touched by the way we handed Nathaniel back to God. She commented that we would be surprised at the faces we would see in heaven because of what they had seen in us during our stay. Thank you God!
Proverbs 10:6 (NIV)
Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 2:7-8 (KJV)
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV)
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
“in season and out of season”. This is not talking about fall or winter. Here it is saying, “Live a life of example for the glory of God, whether you feel like it or not.”
God always takes care of the righteous. The reason we get confused when something doesn’t seem to go our way, especially when we think we are doing everything the right way, is because we have a warped sense of what righteous means. Literally, it means “right” or “in right standing with God”. Our opinion of what is right and wrong, what is fair, and what is just; tells us when to consider something righteous. Many times Trisha and I have asked God “Why did this happen to Nathaniel?”, and “Why did we have to go through this?” We have told Him, “This is not fair!” But the truth is, if we put our trust in God, the One that made us all, then try our best-whether we feel like it or not; God has promised He will take care of everything else. When God takes care of our situations, it does not always mean He will do what you expect. Usually, it means we will be surprised.
Matthew 7:7 (NIV)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 6:8 (NIV)
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
What do you want?
Ask, according to His will, and He will give it to you.
God knows what you need even before you ask.
As you draw closer to God, you will stop asking for things.
“But”, you say, “Why do I ask for things, then?”
So you can get to know HIM!
Last fall, my care group came up with something that rhymes. It is something I told them over and over again. I want you to repeat after me,
“If I do my best, God will take care of all the rest!”
Let’s pray
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Faith
Here is the third installment from my series on faith...
What is Faith?
We are told in Heb 11:1-NOW FAITH (or trusting) IS THE SUBSTANCE (or assurance, or being confident, or being sure) OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE (or the conviction, or being certain, or convinced) OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
✟ Faith is SUBSTANCE. God’s Word tells us, all things are possible to them that believe (Mark 9:23). The Bible shows us that mountains can be moved by faith (Matthew 17:20). The next words tell us, FAITH…THE SUBSTANCE - of what? - OF THINGS HOPED FOR.
✟ And then the verse continues to tell us that, FAITH IS…THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. Faith is substance and evidence.
✟ Faith is a shield. You have a shield as the result of faith.
✟ You have a breastplate as a result of faith and love.
✟ Eph 6:16-THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WHEREWITH YE SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED.
✟ 1 Thes 5:8 tells us, BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE.
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
Romans 3:27
Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith.
What can faith do?
Faith, backed by the will of God can do enormous things. We can move mountains; we can overcome impossible obstacles, when we have faith.
Luke 17:5-6
The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith." The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, `May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!”
How do we get it?
God gives us a measure of faith. God gives some a gifting of “special faith” that goes above and beyond anything we can produce. When we are saved, by God’s grace; it is through faith. So if you are saved, then you know you have some faith that you can now grow.
Romans 12:3
Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don't think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
1 Corinthians 12:9
The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing.
Ephesians 2:8-9
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
How do we get more?
After receiving the initial measure of faith from God, we grow our faith by studying God’s word, through fellowship with others that are after the same thing we are (growing closer to God). We can grow our faith through prayer and praise (worship).
2 Thessalonians 1:3
Dear brothers and sisters, we can't help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
Can you loose faith?
We can loose faith through things we do and say. If we are lazy, or gossip; if we listen to lies and partial truths; if we do not seek God and fellowship with other Christians, then we can loose our faith faster than we grew it.
2 Timothy 2:15-19
Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth. Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior. This kind of talk spreads like cancer, as in the case of Hymenaeus and Philetus. They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; in this way, they have turned some people away from the faith. But God's truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription: "The LORD knows those who are his," and "All who belong to the LORD must turn away from evil."
Where do I get help?
Our help comes from the Holy Spirit. This help can come directly by us seeking Him in prayer and praise or through us reading the Bible. This help can also come indirectly though other Christians as we fellowship with other believers at church our in small groups or even just going to a movie or getting coffee.
2 Timothy 1:12-14
That is why I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return. Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God's throne. Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up.
Ephesians 6:16
In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil.
What is not faith?
Broadly speaking, anything that is defined as sin is not faith. More specifically, doubt, fear, doing something you have personally been convicted not to do is not faith.
Romans 14:23
But if you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead and do it. For you are not following your convictions. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.
What will God look for in the end?
Without faith we cannot please God. Faith is what He will be looking for in each of us when He returns. God is looking to give each of us a free gift of salvation, which we cannot receive without faith. He wants to use us, once we are saved, to share this good news with everyone we interact with, to allow them the opportunity to be saved and to grow our faith, so we may be used for larger and larger accomplishments for the glory of God.
John 20:26-27
Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you," he said. Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don't be faithless any longer. Believe!"
Hebrews 11:6
And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
Luke 18:8b
I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?"
Romans 4:16
So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift. And we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we live according to the law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe.
What is Faith?
We are told in Heb 11:1-NOW FAITH (or trusting) IS THE SUBSTANCE (or assurance, or being confident, or being sure) OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE (or the conviction, or being certain, or convinced) OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
✟ Faith is SUBSTANCE. God’s Word tells us, all things are possible to them that believe (Mark 9:23). The Bible shows us that mountains can be moved by faith (Matthew 17:20). The next words tell us, FAITH…THE SUBSTANCE - of what? - OF THINGS HOPED FOR.
✟ And then the verse continues to tell us that, FAITH IS…THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. Faith is substance and evidence.
✟ Faith is a shield. You have a shield as the result of faith.
✟ You have a breastplate as a result of faith and love.
✟ Eph 6:16-THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WHEREWITH YE SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED.
✟ 1 Thes 5:8 tells us, BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE.
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
Romans 3:27
Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith.
What can faith do?
Faith, backed by the will of God can do enormous things. We can move mountains; we can overcome impossible obstacles, when we have faith.
Luke 17:5-6
The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith." The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, `May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!”
How do we get it?
God gives us a measure of faith. God gives some a gifting of “special faith” that goes above and beyond anything we can produce. When we are saved, by God’s grace; it is through faith. So if you are saved, then you know you have some faith that you can now grow.
Romans 12:3
Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don't think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
1 Corinthians 12:9
The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing.
Ephesians 2:8-9
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
How do we get more?
After receiving the initial measure of faith from God, we grow our faith by studying God’s word, through fellowship with others that are after the same thing we are (growing closer to God). We can grow our faith through prayer and praise (worship).
2 Thessalonians 1:3
Dear brothers and sisters, we can't help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
Can you loose faith?
We can loose faith through things we do and say. If we are lazy, or gossip; if we listen to lies and partial truths; if we do not seek God and fellowship with other Christians, then we can loose our faith faster than we grew it.
2 Timothy 2:15-19
Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth. Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior. This kind of talk spreads like cancer, as in the case of Hymenaeus and Philetus. They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; in this way, they have turned some people away from the faith. But God's truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription: "The LORD knows those who are his," and "All who belong to the LORD must turn away from evil."
Where do I get help?
Our help comes from the Holy Spirit. This help can come directly by us seeking Him in prayer and praise or through us reading the Bible. This help can also come indirectly though other Christians as we fellowship with other believers at church our in small groups or even just going to a movie or getting coffee.
2 Timothy 1:12-14
That is why I am suffering here in prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return. Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God's throne. Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up.
Ephesians 6:16
In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil.
What is not faith?
Broadly speaking, anything that is defined as sin is not faith. More specifically, doubt, fear, doing something you have personally been convicted not to do is not faith.
Romans 14:23
But if you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead and do it. For you are not following your convictions. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.
What will God look for in the end?
Without faith we cannot please God. Faith is what He will be looking for in each of us when He returns. God is looking to give each of us a free gift of salvation, which we cannot receive without faith. He wants to use us, once we are saved, to share this good news with everyone we interact with, to allow them the opportunity to be saved and to grow our faith, so we may be used for larger and larger accomplishments for the glory of God.
John 20:26-27
Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you," he said. Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don't be faithless any longer. Believe!"
Hebrews 11:6
And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
Luke 18:8b
I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?"
Romans 4:16
So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift. And we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we live according to the law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
How to access/enter Motherboard BIOS
How to access/enter Motherboard BIOS: " The information on this page can be used to access the BIOS from all the major suppliers of BIOS chips and the Computer Manufacturers that use them.
During the initial boot of a computer the BIOS supplier will be displayed. If OEM logo splash screen is displayed, press ESC key to see the boot up information. Press the Pause/Break key if text displays too fast.
The major BIOS suppliers are listed below and can be used to search for special BIOS updates not supplied by the Computer vendor.*
For a very comprehensive and visual look at the BIOS, follow the link below from Eric Legge's www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ web site.
The BIOS: the 'Basic Input Output System' Setup Program used in a computer
During the initial boot of a computer the BIOS supplier will be displayed. If OEM logo splash screen is displayed, press ESC key to see the boot up information. Press the Pause/Break key if text displays too fast.
The major BIOS suppliers are listed below and can be used to search for special BIOS updates not supplied by the Computer vendor.*
For a very comprehensive and visual look at the BIOS, follow the link below from Eric Legge's www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ web site.
The BIOS: the 'Basic Input Output System' Setup Program used in a computer
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
R-Name - Rename / Pad Tools for Maya
R-Name - Rename / Pad Tools for Maya: "R-Name is a free batch-file-renaming utility. You simply drag-and-drop files (or folders) onto R-Name and they are automatically renamed based on your settings. You can even preview the changes before actually renaming the files!
R-Name can rename files in various ways.
# Find and Replace characters (with regular expression)
# Add, remove or replace file extensions like .jpg or .html
# Add characters at the beginning or end of the filename, or even before a file extension
# Sequential numbering "
R-Name can rename files in various ways.
# Find and Replace characters (with regular expression)
# Add, remove or replace file extensions like .jpg or .html
# Add characters at the beginning or end of the filename, or even before a file extension
# Sequential numbering "
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Men Do Cry
Many of you who know me, know my wife and I lost our first son earlier this year. A good friend of mine emailed me this poem and it has really meant a lot to me. I wanted to share it with all or you as well...
Men Do Cry
By Ken Falk
I heard quite often "men don’t cry"
Though no one ever told me why.
So when I fell and skinned a knee,
No one came by to comfort me.
And when some bully-boy at school
Would pull a prank so mean and cruel,
I’d quickly learn to turn and quip,
"It doesn’t hurt," and bite my lip.
So as I grew to reasoned years,
I learned to stifle any tears.
Though "Be a big boy" it began,
Quite soon I learned to "Be a man."
And I could play that stoic role
While storm and tempest wracked my soul.
No pain or setback could there be
Could wrest one single tear from me.
Then one long night I stood nearby
And helplessly watched my son die.
And quickly found, to my surprise,
That all that tearless talk was lies.
And still I cry, and have no shame.
I cannot play that "big boy" game.
And openly, without remorse,
I let my sorrow take its course.
So those of you who can’t abide
A man you’ve seen who’s often cried,
Reach out to him with all your heart
As one whose life’s been torn apart.
For men DO cry when they can see
Their loss of immortality.
And tears will come in endless streams
When mindless fate destroys their dreams.
Men Do Cry
By Ken Falk
I heard quite often "men don’t cry"
Though no one ever told me why.
So when I fell and skinned a knee,
No one came by to comfort me.
And when some bully-boy at school
Would pull a prank so mean and cruel,
I’d quickly learn to turn and quip,
"It doesn’t hurt," and bite my lip.
So as I grew to reasoned years,
I learned to stifle any tears.
Though "Be a big boy" it began,
Quite soon I learned to "Be a man."
And I could play that stoic role
While storm and tempest wracked my soul.
No pain or setback could there be
Could wrest one single tear from me.
Then one long night I stood nearby
And helplessly watched my son die.
And quickly found, to my surprise,
That all that tearless talk was lies.
And still I cry, and have no shame.
I cannot play that "big boy" game.
And openly, without remorse,
I let my sorrow take its course.
So those of you who can’t abide
A man you’ve seen who’s often cried,
Reach out to him with all your heart
As one whose life’s been torn apart.
For men DO cry when they can see
Their loss of immortality.
And tears will come in endless streams
When mindless fate destroys their dreams.
Eight life tips...
1. An apology is a good way to have the last word.
2. Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
3. Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
4. Usually people are as happy as they make their minds up to be.
5. You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
6. You will never offend a person by returning a smile.
7. Gentle words fall lightly, but have great weight.
8. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop.
2. Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
3. Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
4. Usually people are as happy as they make their minds up to be.
5. You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
6. You will never offend a person by returning a smile.
7. Gentle words fall lightly, but have great weight.
8. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Macworld: Feature: Software Bargains: Tweak Your System
Macworld: Feature: Software Bargains: Tweak Your System: "Software Bargains: Tweak Your System
Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All)
By Dan Frakes and Rob Griffiths
Mac OS X may be the best operating system around, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t stand a few under-the-hood alterations. We’ve looked far and wide for the best system utilites available for less than $50. Here are 17 low-cost utilities that will fine-tune your OS."
Must-Have Utilities for Next to Nothing (or Nothing at All)
By Dan Frakes and Rob Griffiths
Mac OS X may be the best operating system around, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t stand a few under-the-hood alterations. We’ve looked far and wide for the best system utilites available for less than $50. Here are 17 low-cost utilities that will fine-tune your OS."
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Bleezer Test
Here is my first atempt at a post using Bleezer. It is blogging software (Mac, Linux, and Windows too) with a few more options than just using a Blogger window to post.
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Trust and Faith in God
I was recently asked to share with our Young Adults group on three separate nites in a months time. I gladly accepted and was telling a pastor friend of mine. He smiled and told me he felt I would be teaching a series. He told me it may not seem like a series, but in the end, I would look back and see a series. As it turns out, I seem to have taught on a series, faith. Here is the second installment...
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
And he will make your paths straight.
2 Corinthians 3:4,5
Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Jeremiah 32:17, 26-27
"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
1 Chronicles 29:10-13
David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,
"Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; You are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.
Psalms 27:8
My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Psalms 27:13-14
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Psalms 91:1-2
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are directed by the LORD.
How then can anyone understand his own way?
Matthew 14:31
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
Lamentations 3:22-24
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
Psalms 37:1-7
Do not fret because of evil men
or be envious of those who do wrong;
for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Psalms 42:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and
Psalms 73:23-24
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalms 50:15
and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Psalms 36:5-9
Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men
find [a] refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
It's so easy to feel overwhelmed by life. When we consider our responsibilities in family, work, church and extended family or friendships, feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness can rise suddenly and envelop you like a thick fog.
Yet you can keep from being overwhelmed by focusing on the sufficiency of Christ. He is alive today, and He stands ready to guide you along the way.
There's a great poem that says:
Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to You with my empty cup
Uncertain of asking for any small drop of refreshment
If only I would have known You better,
I would have come running with a bucket.
God wants us to know Him and to receive His blessings and to live a life of peace, purpose and forgiveness. The Bible contains many wonderful principles and truths, but these principles will be only stale words and doctrine to you unless you allow the person of Jesus Christ to be at the center of your life. As A. W. Tozer states, "The most important thing about you is what you think about God."
No matter how inadequate you feel in helping those you care about, God is completely able to do what appears impossible. His power is most evident when we are weakest. As Paul says in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge him,
And he will make your paths straight.
2 Corinthians 3:4,5
Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Jeremiah 32:17, 26-27
"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
1 Chronicles 29:10-13
David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,
"Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; You are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.
Psalms 27:8
My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Psalms 27:13-14
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Psalms 91:1-2
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are directed by the LORD.
How then can anyone understand his own way?
Matthew 14:31
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
Lamentations 3:22-24
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
Psalms 37:1-7
Do not fret because of evil men
or be envious of those who do wrong;
for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Psalms 42:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and
Psalms 73:23-24
Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalms 50:15
and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Psalms 36:5-9
Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men
find [a] refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
It's so easy to feel overwhelmed by life. When we consider our responsibilities in family, work, church and extended family or friendships, feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness can rise suddenly and envelop you like a thick fog.
Yet you can keep from being overwhelmed by focusing on the sufficiency of Christ. He is alive today, and He stands ready to guide you along the way.
There's a great poem that says:
Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to You with my empty cup
Uncertain of asking for any small drop of refreshment
If only I would have known You better,
I would have come running with a bucket.
God wants us to know Him and to receive His blessings and to live a life of peace, purpose and forgiveness. The Bible contains many wonderful principles and truths, but these principles will be only stale words and doctrine to you unless you allow the person of Jesus Christ to be at the center of your life. As A. W. Tozer states, "The most important thing about you is what you think about God."
No matter how inadequate you feel in helping those you care about, God is completely able to do what appears impossible. His power is most evident when we are weakest. As Paul says in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Elevator Hack
Here is a nifty one to try from hackcanada.com....
The designers of some elevators include a hidden feature that is very handy if
you're in a hurry or it's a busy time in the building (like check-out time in
a hotel). While some elevators require a key, others can be put into "Express"
mode by pressing the "Door Close" and "Floor" buttons at the same time. This
sweeps the car to the floor of your choice and avoids stops at any other floor.
This seems to work on Most elevators that I have tried! Most elevators have the
option for this to work, but on some of them the option is turned off by whoever
runs them. This is a rather fun hack, so the next time you are on an elevator,
give it a try, you have nothing to lose, And this concludes Hacking Elevators 101!
The designers of some elevators include a hidden feature that is very handy if
you're in a hurry or it's a busy time in the building (like check-out time in
a hotel). While some elevators require a key, others can be put into "Express"
mode by pressing the "Door Close" and "Floor" buttons at the same time. This
sweeps the car to the floor of your choice and avoids stops at any other floor.
This seems to work on Most elevators that I have tried! Most elevators have the
option for this to work, but on some of them the option is turned off by whoever
runs them. This is a rather fun hack, so the next time you are on an elevator,
give it a try, you have nothing to lose, And this concludes Hacking Elevators 101!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Funny Things from the US Air Force
After every flight, US Air Force pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet, "which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.
Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by the US Air Force's pilots (marked with a P); and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're for.
P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.
Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by the US Air Force's pilots (marked with a P); and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're for.
P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.
Study: Tech Replaces Diamonds As Girl's Best Friend
NEW YORK - Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace.
The survey, commissioned by U.S. cable television's Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women, found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily.
Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting.
"People make the assumption that women are not as advanced as men when it comes to technology and I was surprised at the parity men and women now have in terms of technology," Geraldine Laybourne, chairman and chief executive of Oxygen Network, told Reuters.
The Girls Gone Wired survey of 1,400 women and 700 men aged 15 to 49, which was conducted by market researcher TRU, found that given the choice, women would opt for tech items rather than luxury items like jewelry or vacations.
The study found 77 percent of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma television to a diamond solitaire necklace and 56 percent would opt for a new plasma TV over a weekend vacation in Florida.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Download of the Day: GeekTool - Lifehacker
Download of the Day: GeekTool - Lifehacker: "Mac OS X only: GeekTool is a nifty utility that incorporates text files, the output of shell commands and images onto your Mac's desktop.
GeekTool ranks up there with Quicksilver in my 'Oh my, why doesn't this exist for Windows' list. Especially indispensable for command line lovers, GeekTool is fantastic for keeping tabs on your system or tracking your life in .txt right on your desktop.
GeekTool ranks up there with Quicksilver in my 'Oh my, why doesn't this exist for Windows' list. Especially indispensable for command line lovers, GeekTool is fantastic for keeping tabs on your system or tracking your life in .txt right on your desktop.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Mac Geekery - Optimizing AirPort Connectivity
Mac Geekery - Optimizing AirPort Connectivity
A great website tutorial for tweaking your wireless network to increase and possibly double your signal strength!
A great website tutorial for tweaking your wireless network to increase and possibly double your signal strength!
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Let's Say Thanks
Here is a wonderful website that lets anyone send a thank you card to the troops stationed overseas. It is free and they get a real paper card (not just an email or electronic wannabe).
Monday, July 24, 2006
King Test
JESUS
My King was born King; the Bible says He's the seven-way King.
He's the King of the Jews- that is a racial King.
He's the King of Israel - that's a national king.
He's the King of righteousness,
He's the King of the ages,
He's the King of heaven,
He's the King of glory,
He's the King of kings and
He is the Lord of lords.
Now, that's my King.
"Well, I wonder if you know Him do you know Him?
Don't try to mislead me - do you know my King?
David said, "The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows His handiwork."
My King is the only one, whom there is no means of measure can define His limitless love.
No far-seeing telescope can bring into visibility the coastline of His shoreless supplies.
No barriers can hinder Him from pouring out His blessing.
He's enduringly strong, He's entirely sincere, He's eternally steadfast, He's immortally graceful, imperially powerful, He's impartially merciful.
That's my King. He's God's Son, He's the sinner's Saviour. He's the centrepiece of civilisation, He stands alone in Himself. He's awesome, unique, unparalleled -
He's unprecedented.
He's the miracle of the age. He's the superlative of everything good that you choose to call Him. He is the only one able to supply all of our needs simultaneously. He supplies strength for the weak. He's available for the tempted and the tried. He sympathises and He saves.
He foreguards and He guides.
He heals the sick.
He cleanses the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He discharges debtors.
He delivers the captives. He defends the feeble. He blesses the young. He serves the unfortunate. He regards the aged.
He rewards the diligent, and He beautifies the meek. Do you know Him?
Well, my King is the King of knowledge.
He's the wellspring of wisdom, He's the doorway of deliverance.
He's the pathway of peace, He's the roadway of righteousness, He's the highway of holiness, He's the gateway of glory.
He's the Master of the mighty, He's the Captain of the conquerors, He's the Head of the heroes and He's the Leader of the legislators!
He's the Overseer of the overcomers, He's the Governor of the governors.
He's the Prince of princes, He's the King of kings, and He's the Lord of lords.
That's my King.
His office is manifold and His promise is sure. His light is matchless,
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting and His love never changes.
His Word is enough, His grace is sufficient.
His reign is righteous, His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Well, I wish I could describe Him to you, but He's indescribable!
He's incomprehensible, invincible, irresistible.
I'm trying to tell you the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him,
let alone a man explain Him!
You can't get Him out of your mind. You can't get Him off of your hands.
You can't outlive Him and you can't live without Him!
Well, Pharisees couldn't stand Him but they found out they couldn't stop Him.
Pilot couldn't find any fault in Him.
The witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree and Herod couldn't kill Him.
Death couldn't handle Him and the grave couldn't hold Him.
That's my King!
He always has been and He always will be.
I'm talking about, He had no predecessor and He'll have no successor.
There was nobody before Him and there will be no one after Him.
You can't impeach Him and He's not going to resign.
That's my King!
Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.
Well, all the power belongs to my King.
We around here talk about black-power, and white-power, and green-power, but it's God's power! Thine is the power and the glory!
We are trying to get prestige and honour and glory for ourselves but the glory is all His.
Yes, Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever and ever
and ever (how long is that?) and ever
and ever and ever and ever.
And when you get through with all of the forevers, then - "Amen!"
-As inspired by Pastor Dr. Shadrach Meshach Lockridge.
My King was born King; the Bible says He's the seven-way King.
He's the King of the Jews- that is a racial King.
He's the King of Israel - that's a national king.
He's the King of righteousness,
He's the King of the ages,
He's the King of heaven,
He's the King of glory,
He's the King of kings and
He is the Lord of lords.
Now, that's my King.
"Well, I wonder if you know Him do you know Him?
Don't try to mislead me - do you know my King?
David said, "The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows His handiwork."
My King is the only one, whom there is no means of measure can define His limitless love.
No far-seeing telescope can bring into visibility the coastline of His shoreless supplies.
No barriers can hinder Him from pouring out His blessing.
He's enduringly strong, He's entirely sincere, He's eternally steadfast, He's immortally graceful, imperially powerful, He's impartially merciful.
That's my King. He's God's Son, He's the sinner's Saviour. He's the centrepiece of civilisation, He stands alone in Himself. He's awesome, unique, unparalleled -
He's unprecedented.
He's the miracle of the age. He's the superlative of everything good that you choose to call Him. He is the only one able to supply all of our needs simultaneously. He supplies strength for the weak. He's available for the tempted and the tried. He sympathises and He saves.
He foreguards and He guides.
He heals the sick.
He cleanses the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He discharges debtors.
He delivers the captives. He defends the feeble. He blesses the young. He serves the unfortunate. He regards the aged.
He rewards the diligent, and He beautifies the meek. Do you know Him?
Well, my King is the King of knowledge.
He's the wellspring of wisdom, He's the doorway of deliverance.
He's the pathway of peace, He's the roadway of righteousness, He's the highway of holiness, He's the gateway of glory.
He's the Master of the mighty, He's the Captain of the conquerors, He's the Head of the heroes and He's the Leader of the legislators!
He's the Overseer of the overcomers, He's the Governor of the governors.
He's the Prince of princes, He's the King of kings, and He's the Lord of lords.
That's my King.
His office is manifold and His promise is sure. His light is matchless,
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting and His love never changes.
His Word is enough, His grace is sufficient.
His reign is righteous, His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Well, I wish I could describe Him to you, but He's indescribable!
He's incomprehensible, invincible, irresistible.
I'm trying to tell you the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him,
let alone a man explain Him!
You can't get Him out of your mind. You can't get Him off of your hands.
You can't outlive Him and you can't live without Him!
Well, Pharisees couldn't stand Him but they found out they couldn't stop Him.
Pilot couldn't find any fault in Him.
The witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree and Herod couldn't kill Him.
Death couldn't handle Him and the grave couldn't hold Him.
That's my King!
He always has been and He always will be.
I'm talking about, He had no predecessor and He'll have no successor.
There was nobody before Him and there will be no one after Him.
You can't impeach Him and He's not going to resign.
That's my King!
Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.
Well, all the power belongs to my King.
We around here talk about black-power, and white-power, and green-power, but it's God's power! Thine is the power and the glory!
We are trying to get prestige and honour and glory for ourselves but the glory is all His.
Yes, Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever and ever
and ever (how long is that?) and ever
and ever and ever and ever.
And when you get through with all of the forevers, then - "Amen!"
-As inspired by Pastor Dr. Shadrach Meshach Lockridge.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
10 Things You'll Learn by Visiting Other Churches
Great post by Michael at Oak Leaf Church at his blog:
Over the past four weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to check out some other church plants. A couple of times, I was able to take some people from our launch team as well, which was really cool. I wanted to post an overview of some of my thoughts in no particular order and not necessarily reflective on one particular church.
1.Ridgestone wins the award for best setup in a movie theater. Mill Creek did a great job at creating a children’s environment in a movie theater, and their children's pastor was awesome. Lake Point was very friendly in a school environment...friendly and helpful. Center Point Church in Lexington was doing a great job of spreading the word about the church.
2.Start on time. Get in the habit of starting on time no matter what and your people will get in the habit of being on time. Have something great right off the bat, so if people are late, they miss it. I’ve heard from a couple of different places that people make their decisions to come back or not to come back VERY early.
3.Put friendly people at the doors and on your stage. We went to a couple of churches that really didn’t come across friendly right from the beginning - it took a while for them to welcome us. Your people that are just welcoming and friendly and friendly looking…they need to be greeters. Where's the rule that the pastor always has to do the welcome? You can’t put a price tag on creating a welcoming environment. It takes a lot of work, but there's a big payoff.
4.Lighting helps creates environment. A couple of the movie theater churches I attended were just too dark. This was great for video and worship, but not so good for the message. It’s hard to write things down in the dark. Shoot some par lighting at the ceiling, I don’t know…I’m not a lighting guy. But too much darkness (or too much daylight) can really affect the atmosphere.
5.Coffee and fruit and muffins and bagels at several churches were really nice touches. They were done with excellence nearly every time, and it looked like some sharp volunteers were all over this. This went a long way towards creating a welcoming environment and increase the “hang-out factor” before the service. Rigdgestone had a great coffee area. Mill Creek had Krispy Kreme donuts.
6.Look for some little ways to create wow experiences. Maybe it’s a sticker on a baby’s diaper that says “I’ve just been changed.” Maybe you make pens available (that’s not all that exciting, but if you ask people to take notes or write things down, give them a pen). Make your bulletin and signage match your series. We’re going to take a staff meeting and just talk about the little things we can do to create wow experiences. (Share yours.)
7.I’ve got lots of thoughts to post later about words on the screen. But if you have a special song that the band plays, always put the lyrics on the screen. It’s hard to understand words to songs you don’t know. And you should never have more than four lines of text on one screen.
8.Signs are important. Figure out how many signs you need to direct people to parking, childcare and bathrooms, and then double that number. Put signs outside and in hallways and in front of rooms. Signs aren’t that expensive and they make things a ton easier on guests. If you’re meeting in a rented facility that already has signs up (school signs, movie posters, etc.) you need bigger and better signs that really stand out.
9.Make sure you have enough stage lights. Setting lights only at wide angles creates distracting shadows. Again I say unto you, lighting is important.
10.Relevance and truth are not mutually exclusive. I know modern, post modern, emergent, contemporary, etc. churches often get a bad rap about this, but these two words are not polar opposites. Most of these churches were relevant as well as being true to God’s word. Lots of scripture references. Lots of sharing God’s truth not just man’s opinion. When this is done in a relevant, excellent way, it really hits home. It’s possible to throw truth out there and make no difference because people don’t understand it.
11. Bonus: I’ve got a pretty short attention span. Unless you’re Andy Stanley, you probably shouldn’t teach more than 45 minutes. (And if you ARE Andy Stanley, thanks for reading my blog.) That’s just a long time to teach and people tune out and forget everything you say. I'm not saying you need to teach for 20 minutes, but you cannot talk for an hour and expect to keep people's attention.
Over the past four weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to check out some other church plants. A couple of times, I was able to take some people from our launch team as well, which was really cool. I wanted to post an overview of some of my thoughts in no particular order and not necessarily reflective on one particular church.
1.Ridgestone wins the award for best setup in a movie theater. Mill Creek did a great job at creating a children’s environment in a movie theater, and their children's pastor was awesome. Lake Point was very friendly in a school environment...friendly and helpful. Center Point Church in Lexington was doing a great job of spreading the word about the church.
2.Start on time. Get in the habit of starting on time no matter what and your people will get in the habit of being on time. Have something great right off the bat, so if people are late, they miss it. I’ve heard from a couple of different places that people make their decisions to come back or not to come back VERY early.
3.Put friendly people at the doors and on your stage. We went to a couple of churches that really didn’t come across friendly right from the beginning - it took a while for them to welcome us. Your people that are just welcoming and friendly and friendly looking…they need to be greeters. Where's the rule that the pastor always has to do the welcome? You can’t put a price tag on creating a welcoming environment. It takes a lot of work, but there's a big payoff.
4.Lighting helps creates environment. A couple of the movie theater churches I attended were just too dark. This was great for video and worship, but not so good for the message. It’s hard to write things down in the dark. Shoot some par lighting at the ceiling, I don’t know…I’m not a lighting guy. But too much darkness (or too much daylight) can really affect the atmosphere.
5.Coffee and fruit and muffins and bagels at several churches were really nice touches. They were done with excellence nearly every time, and it looked like some sharp volunteers were all over this. This went a long way towards creating a welcoming environment and increase the “hang-out factor” before the service. Rigdgestone had a great coffee area. Mill Creek had Krispy Kreme donuts.
6.Look for some little ways to create wow experiences. Maybe it’s a sticker on a baby’s diaper that says “I’ve just been changed.” Maybe you make pens available (that’s not all that exciting, but if you ask people to take notes or write things down, give them a pen). Make your bulletin and signage match your series. We’re going to take a staff meeting and just talk about the little things we can do to create wow experiences. (Share yours.)
7.I’ve got lots of thoughts to post later about words on the screen. But if you have a special song that the band plays, always put the lyrics on the screen. It’s hard to understand words to songs you don’t know. And you should never have more than four lines of text on one screen.
8.Signs are important. Figure out how many signs you need to direct people to parking, childcare and bathrooms, and then double that number. Put signs outside and in hallways and in front of rooms. Signs aren’t that expensive and they make things a ton easier on guests. If you’re meeting in a rented facility that already has signs up (school signs, movie posters, etc.) you need bigger and better signs that really stand out.
9.Make sure you have enough stage lights. Setting lights only at wide angles creates distracting shadows. Again I say unto you, lighting is important.
10.Relevance and truth are not mutually exclusive. I know modern, post modern, emergent, contemporary, etc. churches often get a bad rap about this, but these two words are not polar opposites. Most of these churches were relevant as well as being true to God’s word. Lots of scripture references. Lots of sharing God’s truth not just man’s opinion. When this is done in a relevant, excellent way, it really hits home. It’s possible to throw truth out there and make no difference because people don’t understand it.
11. Bonus: I’ve got a pretty short attention span. Unless you’re Andy Stanley, you probably shouldn’t teach more than 45 minutes. (And if you ARE Andy Stanley, thanks for reading my blog.) That’s just a long time to teach and people tune out and forget everything you say. I'm not saying you need to teach for 20 minutes, but you cannot talk for an hour and expect to keep people's attention.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Psalm 18:2
"The LORD is my rock,
and my fortress,
and my deliverer;
my God, my strength,
in whom I will trust;"
Monday, June 26, 2006
What is Your Dominant Intelligence?
Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence |
 You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician. |
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Bin o' Bacon
Here is a shot just for Troy! I know you love bacon, well here is a whole bin full at a recent breakfast buffet. Drool, drool.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Pastor Dr. Shadrach Meshach Lockridge
Dr. Lockridge was the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, San Diego CA from 1953 - 1993. He entered heaven in 2000.
JESUS is My King
JESUS My King was born King;
the Bible says He's the seven-way King.
He's the King of the Jews- that is a racial King.
He's the King of Israel - that's a national king.
He's the King of righteousness,
He's the King of the ages,
He's the King of heaven,
He's the King of glory,
He's the King of kings and
He is the Lord of lords.
Now, that's my King.
'Well, I wonder if you know Him do you know Him?
Don't try to mislead me - do you know my King?
David said, 'The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows His handiwork.'
My King is the only one,
whom there is no means of measure
that can define His limitless love.
No far-seeing telescope can bring into visibility
the coastline of His shoreless supplies.
No barriers can hinder Him
from pouring out His blessing.
He's enduringly strong,
He's entirely sincere,
He's eternally steadfast,
He's immortally graceful,
He's imperially powerful,
He's impartially merciful.
That's my King.
He's God's Son,
He's the sinner's Saviour.
He's the centrepiece of civilisation,
He stands alone in Himself.
He's awesome, unique, unparalleled -
He's unprecedented.
He's the miracle of the age.
He's the superlative of everything good
that you choose to call Him.
He is the only one able
to supply all of our needs simultaneously.
He supplies strength for the weak.
He's available for the tempted and the tried.
He sympathises and He saves.
He foreguards and He guides.
He heals the sick.
He cleanses the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He discharges debtors.
He delivers the captives.
He defends the feeble.
He blesses the young.
He serves the unfortunate.
He regards the aged.
He rewards the diligent,
and He beautifies the meek.
Do you know Him?
Well, my King is the King of knowledge.
He's the wellspring of wisdom,
He's the doorway of deliverance.
He's the pathway of peace,
He's the roadway of righteousness,
He's the highway of holiness,
He's the gateway of glory.
He's the Master of the mighty,
He's the Captain of the conquerors,
He's the Head of the heroes
and He's the Leader of the legislators!
He's the Overseer of the overcomers,
He's the Governor of the governors.
He's the Prince of princes,
He's the King of kings,
and He's the Lord of lords.
That's my King.
His office is manifold
and His promise is sure.
His light is matchless,
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting
and His love never changes.
His Word is enough,
His grace is sufficient.
His reign is righteous,
His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Well, I wish I could describe Him to you,
but He's indescribable!
He's incomprehensible,
He's invincible,
He's irresistible.
I'm trying to tell you
the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him,
let alone a man explain Him!
You can't get Him out of your mind.
You can't get Him off of your hands.
You can't outlive Him
and you can't live without Him!
Well, Pharisees couldn't stand Him
but they found out they couldn't stop Him.
Pilot couldn't find any fault in Him.
The witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree
and Herod couldn't kill Him.
Death couldn't handle Him
and the grave couldn't hold Him.
That's my King!
He always has been and He always will be.
I'm talking about,
He had no predecessor
and He'll have no successor.
There was nobody before Him
and there will be no one after Him.
You can't impeach Him
and He's not going to resign.
That's my King!
the Bible says He's the seven-way King.
He's the King of the Jews- that is a racial King.
He's the King of Israel - that's a national king.
He's the King of righteousness,
He's the King of the ages,
He's the King of heaven,
He's the King of glory,
He's the King of kings and
He is the Lord of lords.
Now, that's my King.
'Well, I wonder if you know Him do you know Him?
Don't try to mislead me - do you know my King?
David said, 'The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows His handiwork.'
My King is the only one,
whom there is no means of measure
that can define His limitless love.
No far-seeing telescope can bring into visibility
the coastline of His shoreless supplies.
No barriers can hinder Him
from pouring out His blessing.
He's enduringly strong,
He's entirely sincere,
He's eternally steadfast,
He's immortally graceful,
He's imperially powerful,
He's impartially merciful.
That's my King.
He's God's Son,
He's the sinner's Saviour.
He's the centrepiece of civilisation,
He stands alone in Himself.
He's awesome, unique, unparalleled -
He's unprecedented.
He's the miracle of the age.
He's the superlative of everything good
that you choose to call Him.
He is the only one able
to supply all of our needs simultaneously.
He supplies strength for the weak.
He's available for the tempted and the tried.
He sympathises and He saves.
He foreguards and He guides.
He heals the sick.
He cleanses the lepers.
He forgives sinners.
He discharges debtors.
He delivers the captives.
He defends the feeble.
He blesses the young.
He serves the unfortunate.
He regards the aged.
He rewards the diligent,
and He beautifies the meek.
Do you know Him?
Well, my King is the King of knowledge.
He's the wellspring of wisdom,
He's the doorway of deliverance.
He's the pathway of peace,
He's the roadway of righteousness,
He's the highway of holiness,
He's the gateway of glory.
He's the Master of the mighty,
He's the Captain of the conquerors,
He's the Head of the heroes
and He's the Leader of the legislators!
He's the Overseer of the overcomers,
He's the Governor of the governors.
He's the Prince of princes,
He's the King of kings,
and He's the Lord of lords.
That's my King.
His office is manifold
and His promise is sure.
His light is matchless,
His goodness is limitless.
His mercy is everlasting
and His love never changes.
His Word is enough,
His grace is sufficient.
His reign is righteous,
His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
Well, I wish I could describe Him to you,
but He's indescribable!
He's incomprehensible,
He's invincible,
He's irresistible.
I'm trying to tell you
the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him,
let alone a man explain Him!
You can't get Him out of your mind.
You can't get Him off of your hands.
You can't outlive Him
and you can't live without Him!
Well, Pharisees couldn't stand Him
but they found out they couldn't stop Him.
Pilot couldn't find any fault in Him.
The witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree
and Herod couldn't kill Him.
Death couldn't handle Him
and the grave couldn't hold Him.
That's my King!
He always has been and He always will be.
I'm talking about,
He had no predecessor
and He'll have no successor.
There was nobody before Him
and there will be no one after Him.
You can't impeach Him
and He's not going to resign.
That's my King!
As inspired by Pastor Dr. Shadrach Meshach Lockridge.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
OK here is a little quiz; let me know your answers...
Would you rather:
1. be an evil genius OR a super-spy?
2. be addicted to eating raw eggs OR sticks of butter?
3. be ten years older or ten years younger?
4. have bionic eyes OR one bionic arm?
5. have a photographic memory or one million dollars?
6. be able to read faster than anyone else or type faster than anyone else?
7. know a lot about animals or electronics?
8. have a big yard or a big house?
9. be funnier or smarter?
10. have lots of "toys" or lots of "tools"
1. super-spy.
2. I like butter, so I guess butter.
3. younger! definately younger!
4. bionic eyes. Then I wouldn't need these glasses!
5. A photographic memory. Then I could easily earn a million dollars!
6. Read faster, then I could learn to type fairly fast as well.
7. electronics, DUH (if you know me).
8. big yard, you don't have to dust and vacuum grass and shrubs!
9. smarter, I think I have funny under control.
10. If "toys"=electronics, then toys; if not then "tools".
1. be an evil genius OR a super-spy?
2. be addicted to eating raw eggs OR sticks of butter?
3. be ten years older or ten years younger?
4. have bionic eyes OR one bionic arm?
5. have a photographic memory or one million dollars?
6. be able to read faster than anyone else or type faster than anyone else?
7. know a lot about animals or electronics?
8. have a big yard or a big house?
9. be funnier or smarter?
10. have lots of "toys" or lots of "tools"
1. super-spy.
2. I like butter, so I guess butter.
3. younger! definately younger!
4. bionic eyes. Then I wouldn't need these glasses!
5. A photographic memory. Then I could easily earn a million dollars!
6. Read faster, then I could learn to type fairly fast as well.
7. electronics, DUH (if you know me).
8. big yard, you don't have to dust and vacuum grass and shrubs!
9. smarter, I think I have funny under control.
10. If "toys"=electronics, then toys; if not then "tools".
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Great free driver sites
Here are a few sites to get drivers. They are free to use, unlike many of the links you will find when searching Google.
winguides
driverguide
driversearch
drivermagic
winguides
driverguide
driversearch
drivermagic
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Friday, March 31, 2006
Top 10 Tire Care Tips
Source: Rubber Manufacturers Association
1. Don¹t wait until it¹s too late - Make it a habit to check your tire pressure at least once per month and before every long trip. Under inflated tires causes excess heat build-up that can damage tires and lead to a failure.
2. Know your pressure point - The correct tire pressure is found on a sticker on the driver¹s door, doorpost or owner¹s manual NOT on the tire sidewall that¹s the maximum pressure for the tire.
3. Keep your cool - To accurately measure your tire pressure, check tires when they are cold. Wait at least three hours after driving.
4. Take care of your spare - Check your spare tire each month and keep it properly inflated so it¹s ready to go when you need it most.
5. Penny for your thoughts - A penny can tell you if your tire is bald. Place a penny upside down into a tread groove. If you can see all of Lincoln¹s head, it¹s time for a new tire.
6. Keep yourself in line - Be aware of potholes that can not only damage your tire but can also jar your car¹s alignment.
7. Pick a date and rotate - Make sure you rotate your tires every 6,000 miles to promote uniform wear and longer tire life.
8. Don¹t take a spin without a cap - Driving without your tire valve cap allows for a slow leak of air from the tire and eventual underinflation.
9. Don¹t lose your balance - It is important to have your tire balance checked periodically to avoid irregular wear.
10. Be a weight-watcher - Overloading your vehicle stresses your tires and can lead to damage.
1. Don¹t wait until it¹s too late - Make it a habit to check your tire pressure at least once per month and before every long trip. Under inflated tires causes excess heat build-up that can damage tires and lead to a failure.
2. Know your pressure point - The correct tire pressure is found on a sticker on the driver¹s door, doorpost or owner¹s manual NOT on the tire sidewall that¹s the maximum pressure for the tire.
3. Keep your cool - To accurately measure your tire pressure, check tires when they are cold. Wait at least three hours after driving.
4. Take care of your spare - Check your spare tire each month and keep it properly inflated so it¹s ready to go when you need it most.
5. Penny for your thoughts - A penny can tell you if your tire is bald. Place a penny upside down into a tread groove. If you can see all of Lincoln¹s head, it¹s time for a new tire.
6. Keep yourself in line - Be aware of potholes that can not only damage your tire but can also jar your car¹s alignment.
7. Pick a date and rotate - Make sure you rotate your tires every 6,000 miles to promote uniform wear and longer tire life.
8. Don¹t take a spin without a cap - Driving without your tire valve cap allows for a slow leak of air from the tire and eventual underinflation.
9. Don¹t lose your balance - It is important to have your tire balance checked periodically to avoid irregular wear.
10. Be a weight-watcher - Overloading your vehicle stresses your tires and can lead to damage.
Monday, March 27, 2006
How to uninstall Windows XP SP 2
This is for all my PC friends. I woke up this morning to an error dialog on Trisha's computer telling me that after auto update had tried to install Windows XP SP2 the computer would no longer boot. So, if you are installing SP 2 and it fails, leaving your computer unbootable, here is a fix using your XP disc...
How To: Uninstall Windows XP SP 2 using Recovery Console:
Please note: If the computer cannot start in either Normal mode or Safe mode, then the Service Pack 2 removal can be started through the Recovery Console.
1. Turn on the computer with the Microsoft® Windows® XP disc in the CD/DVD drive. When prompted to start from the CD, press any key. If you miss the message and arrive at a blinking cursor, restart the computer and try pressing any key again when the message appears.
2. Windows XP Setup prepares to run. If you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver, press the F6 key during startup.
3. The option for an Automated System Recovery appears momentarily.
4. Setup loads the files necessary for the installation, and then starts Windows.
5. Press the R key to run the Recovery Console for Windows XP.
6. Press the number for the corresponding Windows installation for which you know the administrator password. (For most users this will be 1)
7. After selecting the appropriate Windows installation, type the administrator password when prompted.
8. The screen displays a C:\WINDOWS prompt.
9. At the C:\WINDOWS prompt, type: cd $ntservicepackuninstall$.
Press the ENTER key.
10. At the At the C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ prompt, type: cd spuninst. Press ENTER.
11. At the At the C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\SPuninst prompt, type: batch spuninst.txt. Press ENTER.
12. The batch file manually removes Service Pack 2 from the computer. This process takes several minutes.
13. At the C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\SPuninst prompt, type: Exit. Press ENTER. The computer restarts.
14. From the Start menu, click Run. In the Run dialog box, type:
Regedit. Click OK.
15. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ServicesRPCSs.
16. In the right pane, double-click ObjectName.
17. An Edit String dialog box displays. In the dialog box, type:
Localsystem. Click OK.
18. From the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
19. Restart the computer.
20. Open Control Panel. From the Microsoft® Windows® XP default Start menu, click Control Panel. From the classic Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
21. In Control Panel, open Add or Remove Programs. If you are in Category View, click Add or Remove Programs. If you are in Classic View, double-click Add or Remove Programs.
22. In the Add or Remove Programs window, select Windows XP Service Pack 2, and then click Remove.
23. In the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Removal Wizard dialog box, click Next.
24. Service Pack 2 inspects the configuration, checks for necessary disk space, stops services, restores catalogs, and then runs processes before removal.
25. The computer deletes installed SP2 files and copies backup files to the hard drive.
26. In the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Removal Wizard dialog box, click Finish to restart the computer.
Note: If removing the Service Pack 2 through Recovery Console does not properly work, a repair installation of Windows XP will restore the original Windows XP files.
Friday, March 24, 2006
make money with my blog?!
OK, I know everyone has a " Make Money. Use AdSense to earn money with your blog." link on your blog page, but the question I have is, "Has anyone really made money with it?" and a very important follow-up,"Does this turn your blog into the Giant cyber billboard in the sky and run all your readers away?"
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
OK lets talk Treo 650
I know the Treo 650 has been out over a year, but it is still the number 2 all-in-one handset out there. I am fairly new to the game, and I LOVE mine. I promised a friend of mine to help get him acclimated to his, so.... Here are my top ten add on apps (drum roll in background)...
1. DateBk5. This takes the Calendar app and pumps it up on steroids. It has become an extension to my brain.
2. PowerRUN. Moves many apps to your SD card. Almost no added delay. This little app was the make it or break it for me to move from my "Batman utility" belt of phone, camera, and Sony Clie´to an all-in-one.
3. Butler. Great for simple alarm interface, turning off that annoying blinking green light, and all sorts of "interface management" options
4. MyBible. A great Bible program that allows multiple versions (NLT, NIV, etc), adding of notes, highlighting, bookmarking, and much more. Laridian, the makers of MyBible, offer a free verse memorization tool and a free specialized book reader that can be used for daily devotions or reading plans. Both of these free-bees integrate very well with MyBible.
5. VolumeCare. Tweaks the volume settings so the volume can be doubled and the settings can be separate for handset, speaker phone, or hands free.
6. pTunes. Turns your Treo into an iPod. You are only limited by the size of your SD card.
7. FileZ. FREE. The best file management utility I have found. It has been my only means for deleting some stubborn file bits from trialware gone bad. And did I mention it's FREE?
8. BackupBuddy VFS Pro. The best money I have ever spent on any Palm app EVER. You can back everything (yes everything, including registrations, passwords, hidden files, all of it)to your SD card to restore from when bad things happen. Also comes with a computer app (both Windows and Mac) to backup everything at hotsync.
9. Documents to Go Premium Edition 8. Now you can open/read/edit/compose Word, Excel, Power Point, and PDF files on your Palm. With this latest verion you can even move the apps to your SD card!
10. Ringo. Now you can use MP3s as ringtones. It also alows you to assign ringtones to individuals or groups.
OK that's my top 10. I will get into games next time around.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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