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Gates: Buy stamps

MacMinute reports: “Bill Gates is suggesting that computer users should be required to buy “stamps” in order to send e-mail.” Thats not going to go down well.

Neil Young on new media

“The Internet is the new radio”, Neil Young speaks to Wired in The Reinvention of Neil Young, Part 6

J. wants to know about VJ programs vs. video editing for his youth pastor. Hi J. your youth pastor wants ambient video wallpaper that does not distract from his message, or from whatever else is going on, but rather adds a vital and prophetic layer to it. He also wants to layer his words or…

Dylan Greene on RSS

Dylan Greene’s 10 reasons on why RSS is not ready for prime time are interesting but I still believe that RSS is the way the browsing experience is moving. Away from surfing and towards sucking in the headlines. Besides that, it just feels good to have your RSS Feeder suck in info from all your…

When VJs become VJs

Thanks BigLoose for the link to this article. I am blogging this so that i dont lose it. I want to read it later. The article is Life as an Artificial Lifeform: When VJs become VJs and VideoPerformanceArtists become VideoLiveActs

G-Force 2.5.3

G-Force 2.5.3 released yesterday. a fantastic visualizer that i have used since 2000. Download it and have some fun. i used to teach my conferences by dropping images and texts into this free program.

Google challenges in 2004

Wired News: There’s a Gaggle Chasing Google Always fun to keep track of Google, which may be one of the leading God figures of the internet.

Jobs’ keynote to be webcast

MacMinute: Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote to be webcast “Apple will webcast Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote on Tuesday beginning at 9:00 a.m. PT” I should really be in San Francisco today!!!!

RSS Feed for ESV bible

Glenn Slaven from Australia offers to set up a RSS Feed for ESV bible for those bloggers with Typepad who want a Bible verse of the day. I am testing it out at ourdailyblog.com and the first one popped up this morning. (See comments to find out how to get it on your typepad blog)

Getting Started With RSS

Stevie has some good advice on RSS feeders, for those of you who have yet to get hooked up. (“surfing the net” is sooooo last century)

Mac 2004 predictions

Mac 2004 predictions are pretty lame. When does the G5 iMac debut? G5 powerbook? Somebody tell me something interesting is coming up, or was 2003 and extraodinarily innovative year for Apple? News of an impending $100 iPod is good, however, and I can finally get one for myself . . I mean . . .…

to All of God’s Beautiful Spammers.

James left a comment on my blog that is a request for money for his church building. I get spammed all the time, especially from Nigerians (nothing against Nigerians). He is probably too busy to come back and read this, with all those thousands of Christians to contact, but if he came back, this is…

Man With a Movie Camera

I need to decide where to take my wife tonight on our “date” and I am presented with two great options, each one a treat and well worth attending. 1. Alternative culture festival with film and music and art – all in the Czech language. 2. A viewing of the early Russian avant-garde film “Man…

Westlake on Matrix

My Aussie friend Geoff Westlake finally saw Matrix Revolutions and blogged some thoughts, including a quote from the Wachowski brothers in 1999 to Time Mag: “The Bible seeks to answer a lot of relevant questions for man,” says Larry. “In the film we refer to the story of Nebuchadnezzar; he has a dream he can’t…

G5 Powerbook in May 04?

AppleInsider: Apple is said to be working with a company called Cooligy to try and attain their goal of deploying a PowerBook G5 by May of 2004

Reading LOTR Script

We downloaded the script for Lord of The Rings and were reading through it for home schooling this week. Lots of fun for the kids and good reading exercise. We are homeschooling our kids in a way that uses unschooling and guided resources at the same time. I think there are a lot of similarities…

Back in Prague

Back in Prague again and catching up with everything and everyone. I am working on technology related headaches – trying to get Kung-Log working with TypePad and Salling Clicker working with my bluetooth phone, and wifi working with Bruce’s PC, and Panther installed on the computers, etc etc. Lots of fun, actually.

I’m a Panther Man

I just installed OS 10.3 on my ibook and am now an official Panther Man. Now I can use a heap of software that has been waiting for me. Very exciting!!!

Ungoogle is the Antichrist

The people at Ungoogle made it on to my desktop as my default homepage. Thats impressive. While i figure out how they did it, i will just leave it there. Ungoogle is the other search engine, representing all the lesser engines (altavista, etc). If Google is the God-figure of the internet (and I think it…