Tuesday, 8 July, 2008 – 21:44
For some reason, in the past 24 hours or so, I’ve had more search hits on the term “confirmation@apple.com” or “confirmation@apple.com email” than I’ve seen for any search result that’s ever hit this site in the months I’ve been tracking.
Could one of the people hitting this site based on that search leave a comment and [...]
Sunday, 29 June, 2008 – 00:40
Hm.
Rather unfortunately, it looks as though my template plans have been thwarted a bit by a bug in WordPress. Pages aren’t supposed to belong to categories or have tags, but all Pages created automatically have their taxonomy set to the default post category.
This has the unfortunate effect of applying that default category style to two [...]
Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 – 00:56
The acute of vision will notice that I just switched over the blog to a brand new theme that I’ve been developing in my spare time over the past couple of weeks. I was going to wait a touch longer to get a few more things in there, but I’ve grown to like it so [...]
Friday, 20 June, 2008 – 17:39
I don’t normally hawk stuff on my site, but I’ve noticed that there’s a handful of people reading these days and I’d like to make sure I extend the offer for those of you who are paying attention.
I have a desire to pick up some extra work on the evenings and weekends, and this extra [...]
Saturday, 7 June, 2008 – 17:11
From David of 37signals:
Popular perception holds that companies must always be growing or they’re dying. There’s either up or down, win or lose, success or failure. I think that’s a harmful dichotomy that leads to the death of perfectly viable companies in their quest for constant growth.
Not all companies are meant to have thousands of [...]
Thursday, 5 June, 2008 – 23:32
I spent a good portion of today and this evening mulling over the methods for application deployment and trying to figure out a few things; I think it only relevant and interesting that I share whatever insights I have gleaned from very likely thinking too hard.
For some time, I have resisted the very in vogue [...]
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008 – 22:56
Normally, I would just have included a link in my daily del.icio.us posting to this article at GigaOm that somehow references part of a review that’s behind a pay wall at another site (I’m not sure I understand it myself), but I wanted to take the time to comment on some of the quotes pulled [...]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008 – 20:56
I (and many others) ask for your prayers right now.
My home congregation, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Millstadt, Illinois, voted this morning in congregational assembly to extend a call to the Rev. Todd Wilken to serve as Assistant Pastor at Trinity.
(I’m speaking about it now because I am a member at Trinity and because Mollie [...]
Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 – 23:06
Based on conversations Amanda and I have been engaged in over the past few days, and also follow-up conversations that I have had with coworkers and friends, I wanted to pose the question of those who read regularly here:
Can a Christian in good conscience play a game like Grand Theft Auto IV?
(If you have not [...]
Saturday, 26 April, 2008 – 00:57
I know and understand that I missed an entire week without writing a single thing, but I will try to make up for lost time over the weekend and into next week.
I go to my bed this night with a heavy heart and a troubled mind as I have spent some time this evening reading [...]
Saturday, 19 April, 2008 – 09:10
I would be remiss if I did not mention to you all that my wife now has a blog with a rather obvious address and that you should be reading it.
I hope only that she reveals to you all the kinds of idiot I can be (and there are many) so that when I say [...]
Saturday, 19 April, 2008 – 07:37
Those who have been reading and (like me) follow many Lutheran blogs know of the news and situations currently transpiring here in St. Louis… and like yesterday’s earthquake, being felt in reverberations in some parts of the country. You also know that I have not spoken to these issues other than a brief article at [...]
Sunday, 13 April, 2008 – 22:57
I had the blessed opportunity to spend my evening with many brothers and sisters at Emmaus in St. Louis, in a service of Evening Prayer and bratwurst dinner afterwards, to the benefit of and to give thanks to God for the once and (hopefully) future ministry of Rev. Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwartz.
Of the situation [...]
Sunday, 13 April, 2008 – 00:27
Amanda and I completed a test playthrough for the first time tonight of a game quite like a shaken-up adaptation of Clue: Mystery of the Abbey. We’d been looking at it for some time, especially liking the theme of the game and the supposed changes it made to the standard “murder mystery” gametype, so this [...]
Saturday, 22 March, 2008 – 16:44
I’m not sure how to feel about this:
I mean, on the one hand, you can’t fault them for looking to reach out and embrace the explosive popularity of the Wii and the theory that it will help people in their homes to evangelize when people as “Who’s that guy?”, but on the other hand, there’s [...]
Friday, 21 March, 2008 – 09:51
On this Good Friday, I find myself away from home for a bit while I (unfortunately) have the world interfere with my preparations for Easter by having to get some work done on my car in my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
I find it unfortunate that I don’t know whether I will be able to [...]
Thursday, 20 March, 2008 – 16:23
Hi, guys!
Nice to see your computers are using up-to-date Web browsers!
Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 – 01:13
At first, I had thought it was merely an Internet rumor, and hoped it had not been true, but it appears that “Issues, Etc.”, one of the most constant and reliable sources of information and discussion for confessional Lutheranism, has been removed from the air, and its staff terminated with no notice and no apparent [...]
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Wednesday, 5 March, 2008 – 02:03
For the last week or so, I’ve been deep into reading The Cluetrain Manifesto, and I will admit specifically to being late to the party on this one, as much of it was published back in 1999 on the Web. I’ve found it to be one of the most interesting collections of essays I’ve read [...]
Monday, 11 February, 2008 – 01:18
One of the most awesome resources provided to the Church through the publication of Lutheran Service Book is the table given in the Daily Lectionary, which is found on page (where is my Pew Edition?) of the Pew Edition. Every copy of Lutheran Service Book in the home contains this list of readings, which are intended to give you a trip through the Scriptures in a single year, with one Old Testament reading and one New Testament reading per day.
So many people resolve at the beginning of the year to more deliberately and purposefully begin a study of God’s Word, but how many of them succeed at this task? If you are to believe this post on the ESV Bible Blog, not many—and you stand the greatest chance of success if you manage to last through the month of March and press on through the year. What a blessing, then, that the LSB Daily Lectionary begins with Ash Wednesday, which is normally more than a full month closer to that point of resistance!
Saturday, 19 January, 2008 – 02:21
Since its introduction into our home courtesy of my wife and her awesome bargain-finding skills, the Wii has been a central focus point for my leisure time. It’s odd to see how my gaming habits have changed with the arrival of the end of the year 2007. I rarely fire up my Xbox 360 anymore, [...]
Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 – 01:14
UPDATE: For reasons of copyrights and permissions, and to obey such laws as they are given to us in the civil realm, I have discontinued the calendar for the Daily Lectionary. I apologize for the inconvenience, especially if you have been following the calendar this year.
It is my hope that Concordia Publishing House will make [...]
Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 – 00:06
I’m now the proud owner of one 16-gigabyte iPod touch, and after a good half-day of messing with it and playing to try and figure the thing out, I have to say that I’m coming away from the first experiences very, very impressed. I find that music library management is going to be difficult for [...]