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

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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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.