Monthly Archive for August, 2006

No More Politics

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Read this article in the KC Star on Saturday. Very thought provoking. This continues to be an issue that I struggle to get a handle on: How my faith in Christ relates to politics, nationalism and war.

The disciples were often gung-ho and misguided — James and John asking Jesus to sit on his right and left, Peter cutting off the ear of Malchus at Jesus’ arrest, etc.

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All Your Fakes Belong to Us

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Russian Footprints

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Interesting bit of history.

Thanks, RandomGuy!

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Thuggery & Trickery: How Islamic terrorists manipulate the MSM

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Articles like this make me doubt the mainstream media. The “Global War on Terrorism” is being fought right here in the good ole US of A. Terrorists don’t need nukes when they have something just as destructive — our very own news corporations.

The money’s too good for the media outlets to question what’s being given them.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about batteries…

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This is a really interesting site. All kinds of info on all types of batteries. E.g. which batteries are the best, how to store them, etc. Pretty sweet.

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Another Sweet Windows App: Color Cop

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This is another one of my indespensible arsenal. I know, I know there’s a Firefox extension (Colorzilla) that does this same type of thing. But…(finger waving)… Color Cop works on the whole desktop.

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Fix another Windows Annoyance: Taskbar Shuffle

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This is a nice little utility for those of you that are as obsessive/compulsive about task bar ordering as I am.

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Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe

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Another story that’ll never make the evening news…

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The ongoing desktop search experience

I’ve been trying desktop search utilities for the past year now. I tried them in this order: Copernic, Google, MSN, Google and Copernic — giving each their fair shake.

I’m back to Copernic because I don’t like the way that Google Desktop jumbles all the different filetypes together. I don’t like having to narrow down searches by using “filetype:doc” search commands. The Ctrl-ctrl hotkey for Google is cool — but hotkeys are not that big of a deal for me. The Outlook integration in the Google one is nice, but with Copernic — it’s all in one place. Even though I’m a proud Gmail user, I don’t like having results from my computer displaying in my browser. Just bugs me.

Guess I should try Yahoo Desktop search at some point. It’s gotta be killer to make me switch from Copernic.

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NYT Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud

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Everyone of these staged photo-ops is making it harder on our troops and also drawing things out in the Middle East.

What about a healthy skepticism and some objectivity?

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NB:Hate Mail from CNN

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How about a CNN anchor responding to bias claims made by NewsBusters.org author Jack Engelhard. Oh, yeah.

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NB:Reuters Withdraws All 920 Pictures Taken by Adnan Hajj From its Database

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So is the mainstream media biased?
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PowerPoint Search and Replace VB Macro

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Here’s a great VB script if you need to do a search and replace across a bunch of PowerPoint files.

I was looking for something like this to do a global search and replace in all my church’s PowerPoint song slides.

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Sheehan Resumes Protest Near Bush Ranch

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“>Gotta love what Tony Snow said, when asked if Sheehan had any chance of meeting Bush in Crawford:

“I would advise her to bring water, Gatorade or both,” Snow said when asked about Sheehan during a press briefing Friday. “Honestly, when you’re talking about the kind of issues that we’re talking about, Cindy Sheehan hasn’t risen to the level of staff meetings at this point.”

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Wink by DebugMode

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I was looking for a utility to create some video tutorials and I stumbled on this little gem. Wink will allow you to record what’s going on on your screen, edit it by adding titles and narration, then save it as a Flash movie or video.

I recorded a Flash video on how to prep PowerPoint songs for my church.

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Sen. Clinton Says Rumsfeld Should Resign

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O, brother.

She voted to authorize Bush to invade Iraq in 2002. She read the same intelligence as everyone else in Congress. Why the flip-flop? She’s an opportunist who’s trying to make a name for herself.

For some reason she thinks that Democratic leadership could have done better regarding Iraq & Afghanistan from the beginning. There’s nothing out there to make me think that would be the case.

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Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

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Wow. This is an impressive list.

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