We all know about the people who have energy, creativity, talent, and a spark of brilliance but yet they use all that to try to grab our passwords and get into our bank accounts or sell our information for cash. When I was growing up the term “Hacker” meant:
HACKER n. 1. A person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. (from the original “Hacker’s Dictionary”) Read the rest of this entry »
I’m still learning this lesson and seem to be very slow to learn it, but I want to share my thoughts on it anyway. Sometimes we can see clearly even if we don’t “have it” in our personality yet.
If we are asked to do something, especially something important and doubly so if it’s important for others and not just ourselves, we have 4 answers we can give: I will, I can’t, I won’t, or i don’t. Notice every one of them except the first ends in “n’t” or “not”? Yeah, it’s a pattern. Read the rest of this entry »
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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