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.

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 sure […]

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 at […]

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…

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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