Archive for August, 2005

Computing disaster averted!

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Looks like the data locusts didn’t get nearly as much of my stuff as I had thought. In fact, all my documents (and Carla’s) were safely preserved in a 3 gigabyte zip file, which I spent all of last night extracting into its rightful place.

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Data locusts

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Data locusts have taken My Documents (and, by extension, my wife’s stuff, too). I won’t get into the details, but suffice it to say that the idea of backing up feels incredibly ironic to me at this point, since it was an attempt to create a backup that caused this in the first place.
I’m not [...]

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Keep selling truth in candy bars…

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Andrew Osenga has an excellent post today that basically sums up everything I’ve been trying to say about the uneasy link between faith and commerce, and says it far more eloquently than I could.
This even reaches into the microcosmos of local, independent Christian music. I remember trying to sell my first CD Young Man’s Fancy [...]

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I’m almost there…but I’m still here

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

For those who were left wondering by yesterday’s brief, ill-fated venture into shilling for “stuff,” Carla and I are now officially homeowners.
And so the fun begins…
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A little bit of shameless pandering…

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

In an effort to drive some extra traffic to the blog of one of my favorite CCM singer/songwriters, Shaun Groves (and potentially get some free swag in the process), I encourage you all to visit http://readshlog.blogspot.com/ today.
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