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I really miss this place

The events in Blacksburg are simply unbelievable…I don’t know what else to say.

We’re all Hokies.

That’s just funny…

Going with the flow…
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Census data released…the NYT “weighs” in:
Who Americans Are and What They Do

This was made known to me from the blog of my brother-in-law’s church in MS. It may have been taken down (for unknown reasons), however, as usual, Mr. Lewis puts it well.

From C.S. Lewis’ “What Christmas Means to Me”:

The interchange of presents was a very small ingredient in the older English festivity. Mr. Pickwick took a cod with him to Dingley Dell; the reformed Scrooge ordered a turkey for his clerk; lovers sent love gifts; toys and fruit were given to children. But the idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced upon us by the shopkeepers. Neither of these circumstances is in itself a reason for condemning it. I condemn it on the following grounds.

1. It gives on the whole much more pain than pleasure. You have only to stay over Christmas with a family who seriously try to ‘keep’ it [in the commerical sense] in order to see that the thing is a nightmare. Long before December 25th everyone is worn out—physically worn out by weeks of daily struggle in overcrowded shops, mentally worn out by the effort to remember all the right recipients and to think out suitable gifts for them. They are in no trim for merry-making; much less (if they should want to) to take part in a religious act. They look far more as if there had been a long illness in the house.

2. Most of it is involuntary. The modern rule is that anyone can force you to give him a present by sending you a quite unprovoked present of his own. It is almost a blackmail. Who has not heard the wail of despair, and indeed of resentment, when, at the last moment, just as everyone hoped that the nuisance was over for one more year, the unwanted gift from Mrs. Busy (whom we hardly remember) flops unwelcomed through the letter-box, and back to the dreadful shops one of us has to go?

3. Things are given as presents which no mortal ever bought for himself—gaudy and useless gadgets, ‘novelties’ because no one was ever fool enough to make their like before. Have we really no better use for materials and for human skill and time than to spend them on all this rubbish?

4. The nuisance. For after all, during the racket we still have all our ordinary and necessary shopping to do, and the racket trebles the labour of it. We are told that the whole dreary business must go on because it is good for trade. It is in fact merely one annual symptom of that lunatic condition of our country, and indeed of the world, in which everyone lives by persuading everyone else to buy things. I don’t know the way out. But can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the worst comes to the worst I’d sooner give them money for nothing and write it off as a charity. For nothing? Why, better for nothing than for a nuisance.

From C.S. Lewis, “What Christmas Means to Me,” in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), 304-305.

You know who you are.

Among other things, Macworld signaled the announcement of the new Intel Core Duo iMac and Core Duo Mac Book Pro.  The Powerbook G4 is ‘dead’.  One thing I noted first was that the new MBP has no Firewire 800 port…traded for USB 2.0.
I’m sure a lot of people will have a lot to say about this and other Macworld announcements in the coming days.

The old Civic flipped 200,000 miles on the way home from work today. She’s a little rough around the edges, but still gets the job done.

This time a flash-based memory that facilitates faster boot times…Robson cache…on the new Intel laptops assumed to be introduced at the Macworld Expo.

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Mac Specialist has a list of must-have OS X software. Some are free, some not. There are a few apps on there that are pretty useful.

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Funny rumor…quite pricey though.

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I’ve added a ‘moblog’ (mobile blog) to the sidebar. This is a link to the site where I hope to upload pictures taken on my Treo 650 phone. There’s not too much there now, but you can click on the link to see the pictures. Also, textamerica (the service that runs the moblog), has a moblog RSS feed - handy.

I’ve upgraded the Wordpress engine that runs this site and Redeemer’s site.  This site is using the slick K2 theme (still in beta), Redeemer is still running the old default - I really need to change it soon.  The most difficult part is the header graphic.  I haven’t been happy with the image for some time now and it needs a change.

All in all I’m fairly please with Wordpress 2.0, and K2 gives some native support for plugins (such as the FlickrRSS plugin seen in the sidebar for viewing pictures.

I fail to see how these two things are related. Amazon…you’ve made some changes in recent months, and either I’m getting old and can’t keep up, or things just aren’t working as well as they used to.

Sweet.  Wordpress now has free blog hosting at wordpress.com.  I’ve setup my other blog …because I need another place to not post.

It seems like just the other day when I heard “you’re reading your blogs again?!” & “what’s up with this blog thing?!”
Ah, how things change.

And she’s not alone either.

Well…today was supposedly a ‘day off’ - a day off from work in the office anyway. I spent this morning hauling a swing set over to the back yard from the Barths (thanks Barths!), and this afternoon digging up 15+ azaleas from the bottom terrace in the backyard - to make room for the play set. I’m going to pay for that tomorrow.

…just ran across an interesting blog for little ol’ Lynchburg: LynchburgEatsOut.com. Good idea.

From the site:
Byfaithonline.com is the web magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America. The title is inspired by Hebrews 11 and the realization that just as it was “by faith that Abraham obeyed and went…,” we live by faith today.

I just picked up a great C.S. Lewis book that I’d never read: The Great Divorce. It’s really short and is quite an interesting read on Heaven and Hell. By Lewis’ own admission, it is not to be taken as fact, or even represent his view on the afterlife. It is simply food for thought.