Monthly Archives: August 2005

Computing disaster averted!

Posted on 8/23/2005 by Andrew

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

Posted on 8/22/2005 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Keep selling truth in candy bars…

Posted on 8/15/2005 by Andrew

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I’m almost there…but I’m still here

Posted on 8/11/2005 by Andrew

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…

Posted on 8/10/2005 by Andrew

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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