Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

A Landmark Day in Technology?

I love how some people are mocking the Apple tablet buildup, point out that Microsoft has had tablets out for years. Yes, and there were mp3 players before the iPod, but which one is considering the ultimate version of the technology that caused it to take root? And there were smartphones before ...

Fever | Personas

With life being so busy lately, I've fallen behind in keeping up with tech news, religion blogs, etc. like I used to. There are some feeds that I used to subscribe to that have such a prolific rate of posts (like Macworld, MacNN), that I just can't follow them anymore. That's ...

Palm’s Pre – Decent iPhone competitor?

Of course, this is a demo video, and real-world speed may not be anywhere near this, but I must admit that the interface in the above demo video of the Palm Pre looks intriguing. With the iPhone, Apple was able to leverage its dedicated Mac developer base to jump start ...

Twitter Killed the Blog Star

Stick around to the end for this one, it gets pretty funny. I can see how people would think this about Twitter.  The beauty of it is that, deep down inside, we're all a little bit weird. We obsess over our interests, and realize that in normal converstion that we'd never ...

What’s Next for the iPhone?

Image via CrunchBase Last summer, after the release of the 2.0 iPhone software and MobileMe, I had loads of complaints. Both were full of bugs when launched. See: Dear Steve Jobs | Mobile Me - Not So Pushy They finally got the bugs ironed out of the iPhone with the 2.1 software several ...

Trying out some new tools

My menubar on my Mac is getting a little more crowded these days with the addition of two new tools that I'm trying out. Dropbox The first one isn't exactly a new one, but it's new for me. Being a true geek, I run off of multiple machines. I have 2 machines ...

Happy 25th to the Mac

It was 25 years ago today that Apple released the Macintosh computer. Hard to believe it's been that long. I wasn't using one back then, but I was aware of it. My Industrial Arts teacher in Junior High was also the computer teacher, and we would use Apple II's for ...

iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...

Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...

Google’s Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available

Googles Voice-Enabled Search for iPhone Now Available - Mac Rumors.   Absolutely incredible. Works as advertised. I said, "Alabama football schedule 2009," and it recognized my voice search in about 2 seconds and found it. I said "Camp Sumatanga" and it recognized it perfectly. I said "Toad the Wet Sprocket Something's Always ...

February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...
February 15th 2010
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America has an Empire Problem

At its height, the Roman Empire had 47 major military bases scattered throughout the lands under its control. When the British were running their empire, they had 36 bases. What happened to these empires? The cost of maintaining them bankrupted them. They were unsustainable. We don't like to call ourselves an empire, ...
February 13th 2010
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Critical Success, Commercial Failure – Cops: Sumatanga

For the last few years, I've come up with a camp rules video for Summer camps. After a couple of years of milking the Turkey Vulture video (part two was never uploaded, I need to find that one), we stole a concept from another camp and went crazy with it. I ...
January 28th 2010
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Delusional Alabama Fans

From August 2007 MSNBC.com article Alabama gaga over overrated Saban: Crimson Tide pinning national title dreams on good — not great — coach by By Cary Estes The Crimson Tide went 6-7 last season and has not won a national championship in 15 years. Yet a number of Alabama fans truly ...
January 27th 2010
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A Landmark Day in Technology?

I love how some people are mocking the Apple tablet buildup, point out that Microsoft has had tablets out for years. Yes, and there were mp3 players before the iPod, but which one is considering the ultimate version of the technology that caused it to take root? And there were smartphones before ...