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Archive for November, 2006

Showtime Lights Up 3rd Season of Weeds

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Showtime Lights Up 3rd Season of Weeds – TV.com Tracking
It’s official! Showtime has greenlit 15 episodes of the popular show Weeds.
Weeds became known for it’s cliffhanger endings since the finale of Season 1. The second season provided twists and turns every episode without losing any of the charm which has turned it into a favorite [...]

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Google Apps for Your Domain

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

I just gave Google Apps for Your Domain a test run, and I’m really impressed with the ease of use to switch my hosting email to gmail. For me, since web hosting is my business, I wanted to make sure I understood the process because I’m sure some of my customers may want to begin [...]

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Self-Examination from John Wesley

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Through the wonderful resource that del.icio.us has become, I found this self-examination from John Wesley that Jordon Cooper bookmarked in his del.icio.us:
Wesley’s self-examination quiz
Here is one set of nearly two dozen questions which John Wesley gave to members of his discipleship groups more than 200 years ago. The questions may have their origin in [...]

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If you’re web host uses cPanel there’s a great function which is not often used where you can filter messages prior to being delivered to anyone’s inbox.
If you’re among the many, many people receiving spam which has as it’s subject “It’s name : )” where name is a different name every time, you can write [...]

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Firefox 2 Released

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

So far, I’m extremely impressed with Mozilla’s latest release of the Firefox browser, version 2.
Something we Mac users have been screaming for has finally come to the new Firefox… you can now close each tab with an “x” on the tab instead of it being all the way to the right of the browser. It’s [...]

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Voter smashes Diebold machine as e-voting problems crop up nationwide – Engadget
The highlight of the day, though, has nothing to do with shoddy equipment and everything to do with a crazy voter who attacked a Diebold-brand machine in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Forty-three-year-old Robert Young, a registered independent, apparently believed that the e-voting machines had been deployed [...]

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Flannel Christian: Pastoral Ethics – Evangelical vs mine
* Instead of avoiding the wrong kind of people…
- Embrace them. Set clear boundaries for professional and ministerial relationships, surely, and avoid situations that could lead to confusion or misinterpretation by others, but be an edifying force for those in need. Those needs may require professional help, and [...]

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Thoughts on Ted Haggard

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Haggard’s book, Primary Purpose, was very influential on my early ministry. He presented a revolutionary (though it should not have been) idea of working with other types of Christians in a community to pray together, serve together, and plan together for furthering the Kingdom of God in the local community they shared. Through his book, [...]

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The Speed is Back

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Finally, the server’s back to its regular snappy self. I honestly feel very violated through this whole experience. Someone inflicted damage on me (the hacking of the server), and it affected numerous others. This wasn’t an accident, it was a malicious attack. My life has been almost entirely consumed with this incident for over two [...]

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