Archive for December, 2008
| Microsoft, possibly expecting some computers with Windows Vista to be delivered by Santa, has unveiled Microsoft Answers (beta). |  |
| At the site, you can Search for answers, Browse for answers, or Ask the Community, meaning other users as well as “Microsoft Answers Team,” for help. | |
We all know that Moms love to dress up their kids.
But when Dad is a graphic designer, anything is possible..
It all started out with the innocent baby picture below…
Then Dad went to work.
Will the Chinese toy manufacturers never learn? Will we ever learn that we need to keep a diligent eye on the toys that are sent from abroad? Here again, is another toy that was recalled.
Chinese Toy Recall
In the 1960s and 1970s, many Christian churches made overt efforts to attract younger and more diverse congregations. The advent of Christian rock music and large outdoor festivals helped make the churchgoing experience more approachable to younger crowds. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, youth church events became larger, more noticeable, and more countercultural, at least aesthetically. Their flyers and marketing materials began mirroring the gritty and irreverent imagery usually reserved for secular rock bands.
In the last decade, more churches have increased their visibility further by partnering with design and media firms. Many have assembled their own in-house marketing teams who collaborate with outside designers to produce contemporary and distinctive church branding. A new breed of pastors like Mark Driscoll and magazines like Relevant have achieved pop culture success with an emphasis on youth, visibility, and a carefully designed public image.
Edgepoint Church: http://edgepointchurch.com/
Read the entire article at sitepoint…
Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it,The folks at gwarner have provided a very insightful article showing many ways that people are lured to infect their computers. It’s a lengthy article that’s worth the read.
Read the post Cyber Crime & Doing Time blog.
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British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them.
The no-optician-required glasses rely on the principle that the fatter a lens is, the more powerful it comes, so by pumping in or sucking out fluid, the glasses can be instantly tailored to the right strength. They’re so simple to adjust that practically anyone can do it. So far the only complaint with the glasses is that they’re kind of ginormous—which kind of goes with having specs that operate on the coke-bottle glasses principle and have a fluid-filled membrane sitting in the middle of the lens.
Silver is planning a trial in India that will distribute over 1 million of the glasses, which he hopes to have strapped to the heads over a billion of the world’s poorest people—at a cost of $1 per pair—by the poetic date of 2020. Luckily for him, giant glasses are ironically cool again, so he could probably launch a Get 1, Give 10 style program funded entirely by hipsters .
I originally found this at Gizmodo but the full scoop can be found at guardian.co.uk.
Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it,Today’s crushing blow to our self confidence comes to us from India, where a 9 year old girl has become the youngest person to ever pass a Microsoft Certified Professional examination.
Naturally, this isn’t the first time the girl has been in the spotlight for her talents. Thanks to her extraordinary memory, she has been breaking records since she was three—an age when most of us were concerned with toys and pooping our pants.
See the article and a video on Gizmodo.
Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it,Burgomeister’s got over 1500 ebooks and he allows anyone to “check out” up to five books in a two week period. I somehow question the legalities of his actions but if you want free copies of ebooks he’s got a lot to choose from. There’s nothing fancy about his site and the books, at least the one I downloaded, was nothing more than a zipped up text file. I ran it through the Mobipocket Creator before loading it on my Kindle.
Check out The burgomeister’s Books.
Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it,My wife, Michelle, and I recently went to see the Radio City Rockettes’ Christmas show with some friends at the Fox theater. We found ourselves pleasantly surprised when, at the end of the show, they presented the birth of Christ which included a live nativity. At the end of the presentation they shared the following entitled, One Solitary Life. Whether you’re a Christian or not, you have to acquiesce to the fact that no man or organization has had such a deep and lasting impact as that of Jesus Christ.
One Solitary Life
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did any of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself…
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of mankind’s progress.
All the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that have ever sailed; all the parliaments that have ever sat and all the kings that have ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.
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I ran across a few postings about Lenovo’s dual monitor laptop. While eWeek had no problems posting some pictures of the laptop that supposedly leaked from IBM, cnet indicated that it could not, in good conscience, post the images since IBM’s site did not include any. I decided to post a link to the images as well as to IBM’s announcement of the laptop which does confirm dual displays. I must note, however, that I was not able to confirm this configuration on Lenovo’s site.
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