Because you can observe a lot just by watching.
But it gets attention.
I keep seeing Granger’s program from from last year popping up around the country, and it seems to be getting attention.
I have read dozens of stories from people who hate Christianity using this as an opportunity to bash the church, but they would bash us for reading Song of Solomon.
I am still undecided about how this would go over with our church, but then that isn’t my decision.
Gizmodo has an interesting picture of a laptop at the “official” Vista launch party (I had my own party, but without all the people and only an iso of Beta 2 on hand). Someone taped the vital security info onto the palm rest of the machine and left it there.
Well, we have trained most people at the church to not have their password quite that visible. However, we haven’t got them fully trained to at least lock the machine if they aren’t going to log out or shut down.
Someone at the party needed to brush up on the Immutable Laws of Security.
A: When you get a call from someone asking where 25GB of files went.
Today could have been a whole lot worse than it was.
The English Standard Version Bible Blog has a link to a visual chart for displaying the connections between people in the Bible.
The information is interesting, but not necessarily helpful. It is based off of what names are in the vicinity of other names in the Bible rather than on an intelligent understanding of the actual relationships between individuals. For example, Paul didn’t spend much time with Jesus during his physical incarnation (not that we know of, anyway) yet there is a strong connection due to how often Paul uses his name near Jesus’ name (”Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus . . . ” 1 Cor. 1:1). Consider it an early example of Google Bombing type behavior.
This did remind me of a study I did on the 12 Disciples. After connecting together those who were explicitly called relatives and those who may have been closely related based upon tradition or scattered information in the Bible itself an interesting picture began to arise. Suddenly I started seeing Jesus and his ministry in a different context. These weren’t random followers around him, there were friends and relatives. These were people who spent their lives around one another.
The followers of Jesus were tied into a full reality. They were connected to the followers of John the Baptist, the leading priests, and even the secular rulers of the land. That would be a great chart to see.
I believe in making announcements interesting and a bit creative. Today I sent one out with a Lone Ranger theme and while looking up a bit of info I came across the Lone Ranger’s Creed.
I believe…..
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That ‘this government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later…somewhere…somehow…we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.
This look like good sermon, Kemosabe.
Thief repents after receiving kind text messages.
A kind word turns away wrath, love your enemies and it will heap burning coals upon their heads (that means it will bring them to sorrow and repentance for what they have done), return love for hate, etc.
It is nice to see it when it works.
One of my favorite sayings is that “Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.”
As you know, most computer problems thrive on stupidity. Now humans can be taken out of the equation thanks to work being done by the National Artificial Stupidity Association. Perhaps one day in the future computers could take over the complicated and risky business of stupidity.
Evenings will be spent watching “America’s Funniest Home Applications” and laughing as services fight it on “Jerry Pinger.”
As an old friend of mine was fond of saying “If you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve gotta be tough. Fortunately I am as tough as they come.”
Now this is coincidence.
Exactly 1 year ago today I was dealing with some memory card issues and did some research (Memory Card Corruption Tips).
On Friday I was handed a camera that had been dropped and had images missing. I did what I could to get it back together, but we still could not access the images. Tonight I pulled the card out of the camera (I couldn’t find the proper USB cable for it) and plugged it into my personal digital camera, but I still could not find anything.
Then, after digging up the page linked above, I found PhotoRescue and did the trial run. It found lots of images so I paid the $29 registration fee. The result?
Unfortunately the images I needed were not accessible. They were the 5 duds mentioned above and one of the thumbnails was a junk image to begin with. These duds may have resulted from a test image being taken that may have overwritten some of the data.
This leaves 89 old images found. Some of them were many months old (I recognized the event). Some could have possibly been several years old, but there is a chance that someone just set the date wrong on the camera before those images were taken. This is a useful tool, but remember to be careful what images you take even if you plan to delete.
I did get a shock from the site though, The girl in the pictures here looks just like my daughter. Even my wife was shocked when she saw them.
I enjoy web cams. No, not the dirty ones, the scenic ones. With a little searching in Google you can find all sorts of amazing views.
The widespread use of web cams has not been missed by the government. The Department of Homeland Security has a study on using face recognition and anomaly recognition software with public web cams to determine if something has happened based upon whether there are many fewer people or many more people in the scene than statistically expected (one study can be found here: PDF file). There have been several papers in the FBI concerning home web cams left open to the world. There was even a recent FBI notice concerning web cams in sensitive areas.
If you are like us then you probably have cameras looking at areas where there is not a good physical presence much of the time. Having this available for people to check out gives them an opportunity to see patterns of activity and vulnerability.
If you have cameras accessible outside your network just make sure you have them on a password. Perhaps do some “site:” searching in Google on the domain name or IP address you view the cameras on.
George Hood of Aurora, Ill. is trying to set the record for riding a stationary bike by riding it for more than 82 hours.
Yet for all the pedaling and all the sweating, the spectators never have to work to keep up. He just sits in one place, pushing with all he has. People come over to watch and then leave to go do useful stuff. The world continues to spin and everyone continues to go do their thing, but George never gets anywhere.
I don’t even need to pedal a bike to get that feeling.
Then again, there are other ways to put meaning into your life. Just ask James Bond.