You can hear the audio file of this review at this link.
This is a review I did of MacJournal for the Nosillacast Podcast hosted over at Podfeet.com - A Technology Geek Podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh Bias! I am posting here because it is a new way of thinking for me… I am an old-school computer geek but the people in the Mac community are changing my perspectives. I’ve done magazine reviews in the 80’s but this will be recorded as an audio review for a podcast show. How far have we come since I first laid hands on a computer in ’78!
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I just wanted to take a minute to update anyone reading this on the Gulf Oil Spill situation here in the Florida Keys. So far I’ve heard no reliable report of any oil in the Keys. Every time someone thinks about it we lose tourists for no good reason, but there has not been any oil here from the Gulf Spill to my knowledge.
My friend Captain Craig Jiovanni at the best Key West fishing charter boat, the Ultra Grand Slam, has an article to that effect as well. He told me that he’d not seen any oil when he was out either.
Too often fear drives what we do and we don’t rely on God to protect us. Perhaps it’s because we have stepped out of covenant with Him or perhaps we just don’t have a close enough relationship with Him to know how capable and desirous He is to help us. Or maybe it’s just a bad day and our faith is weak. Whatever the cause we need to let Him help us back up to our feet, brush ourselves off and just replace that fear with faith that will bring any problem to its knees!
The following letter is one I wrote and sent to my Senator regarding the health care bill (at the time). Instead of going along and just believing the words coming out of my TV, I took a look at what was substantive about the proposal and wanted to discuss it with my Senator. I never got any indication it was received so I do not know if it did any good.
I was cleaning out old notes and found this so I thought I would share… it is in the theme of New Perspectives, even though it is a bit negative, since it seemed “everyone” thought this would be a good thing – even though I heard polls said as many as 87% of Americans were opposed to it by the time it went to vote.
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I’ve heard it said that the United States is no longer a Christian nation. I’ve seen movements to try to cement that belief. I wonder if it’s true though… no, I don’t… I know the US is a Christian nation at its core and I pray it remains one.
If I’m born as, let’s say for instance, a Spaniard and later I move to France and live like the French and learn the language and can pass myself off as a French person, does that make me any less a Spaniard? Just because our nation has chosen to act like the devil does not change who we are. Read the rest of this entry »
Up till now I never intended to share this blog with others. It was a tool I use to pump myself up and to encourage myself to look at other points of view and to try to always find the positive angle of everything.
I realize that is selfish and if anyone else can gain anything from my humble writings then I should share it. So, with this post I am making this blog “Open to the Public!”. That sound you hear is the tab of a diet coke popping open in celebration.
Comments are now enabled but are filtered by Askimet (thanks for the suggestion Allison) and I ask only that you remain respectful of me and my other guests here in my home and I will do the same. Disagree all you like but be respectful or I will delete the comment. A blog on new perspectives and a positive outlook is no place for rudeness.
If anything I write is helpful then please let me know in the comments. With encouragement it’s always easier to ‘make oneself’ write more.
