It was six years ago at the end of June that I started blogging. I first heard about Blogger as a Content Management Tool from Andrew Careaga in his newsletter and started playing around with it after that. It’s been fun. Not sure if I plan to keep doing this much longer but one never [...]
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The dark side of Google? Oligarchy in the church: Sociologists have discovered that in virtually all forms of social organizations, from friendship groups to nations, a small self-perpetuating group grabs most of the power. This tendency to concentrate power in the hands of a few persons is called the law of oligarchy. Through His various [...]
ODEO to Google
I logged into draft.blogger.com recently and saw that Google is offering a video upload feature for Blogger (which makes little sense to me as they own YouTube/Google Video but whatever). What I and many Blogger users wouldn’t mind is a hosted podcasting service tie in. I have been a long term fan of ODEO but [...]
Top Secret
I enjoy when Alan Creech posts about things we don’t know about him but I have never done it myself. Here are ten things you probably didn’t know about me. Despite never having been to a NFL game, I met future Miami Dolphin defensive lineman, Chuck Klingbeil at a defunk water park called Penguin Park [...]
Exiles
This came from a friend of mine in response to this post. Amma Syncletica said, “We ought to govern our souls with discretion and to remain in the community, neither following our own will nor seeking our own good. We are like exiles: we have been separated from the things of this world and have [...]
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New government in England, Time let’s us know what to expect. Newsweek looks back at the early days. Why Germany hates Tom Cruise: Apparently it has nothing to do with Mission Impossible II Note to the L.A. Lakers: Cut your ties with Kobe. Do you actually think that unless Phil Jackson can win every game and [...]
Our Generations Legacy
Glen Murray has a thoughtful piece in the Toronto Star on the controversy over Toronto firefighters and police taking the yellow ribbons off their cars. While ribbons and rubber wrist bands have been de rigueur fashion for the politically correct, most who wear them invest little more than a loonie or the risk of a [...]
Just in case you were wondering
Here is a list of problems solved by MacGyver Also, since we are all wondering…. MacGyver’s Swiss Army Knife went through a few changes over the early episodes. His first and most often used knife was a “Spartan” model from Victorinox. In “Thief of Budapest” he gives it away; in the next episode he is [...]
The best of Saskatoon Online
SaskatoonLive.com :: While I can’t wait until the Saskatoonist launches (check out the Gothamist for why I want it). SaskatoonLive.com is a wonderful website that chronicles what makes Saskatoon great. Craigslist :: The famous Craigslist finally expanded to Saskatoon two years ago and while it is huge is places like San Francisco and New York, [...]
Corruption
Larry Lessig is changing his focus from IP/copyright law to what he calls corruption. In one of the handful of opportunities I had to watch Gore deliver his global warming Keynote, I recognized a link in the problem that he was describing and the work that I have been doing during this past decade. After [...]
Update on Darren
Wendy, Mark and I went to Royal University Hospital to visit Darren tonight. He is doing as well as one would expect after having his heart stopped for several hours but he was in good spirits and we had a short visit, dance (the famous straw stirring the drink) and prayer together. They send him home [...]
