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The Mugger’s Friend

Published March 28th, 2008 in News and Podcasting. 0 Comments

NPR’s Morning Edition had a story that caught my attention:
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right.

Also available from StoryCorps: Julio Diaz.

Faced with a mugger, Julio also offers his coat, a meal, and love.

Takes a bit of Matthew 5:38-42 into life.

Have I Been Ignoring You? Sorry

Published June 9th, 2007 in News. 0 Comments

I just discovered that sometime in the recent past (I hope) I stopped receiving email from most of my OSMinistry email addresses. I’m not sure when this happened, but the POP box has 2300 messages in it.

Before I started forwarding all my addresses to my GMail Account I had them all forwarded to one POP box which I accessed either though my own setup of SquirrelMail or Eudora. 18 months ago I completely stopped using Eudora and about that time I thought I moved that POP box into a position to be checked by GMail.

Well, I was just testing something and I was trying to figure out why the email wasn’t getting to me. I discovered that the POP box had 53MB in it and that it was full of “Please moderate this comment” and “So and so has sent you a message.” I’m sure I have kept up with all of them, but I did find a few that I am not sure were really handled.

I have now done what any reasonable person would do, I wiped out the whole lot of them. The old emails I had been saving are probably not important anymore, the new ones I have missed are beyond catching up on, and the spam that got through the filters was too bizarre to worry about.

So, I promise that I was not intentionally avoiding most of you.

Now, to those I was avoiding . . .

Daylight Saving Again

Published March 30th, 2007 in News. 0 Comments

Just a reminder, this is the week that was the time change time.

Some things may change when you aren’t expecting.

The obligatory story link.

My Other Blog

Published July 8th, 2006 in News. 0 Comments

I have been playing around with another blog recently. Quite often I want to post something interesting, but not in line with what I consider the direction of this site. So, while sitting around just thinking about stuff a while back I registered R.ighteo.us and started another blog.

I have had many failed sites in the past. Some programming related, some political in focus, a few persaonal type, and an odd assortment of misfits; but I wanted something fun.

I noticed that many of the “fun” sites I visithave a tendency to head into dirty territory and often have anti-christian slants. So I figured I would do something clean, but not preachy. If someone wants a sermon they can go somewhere else (I have a list), but if they want something fun and clean they can go to http://r.ighteo.us/

I would like to take on additional editors and contributors in the near future, but right now I am investing myself to get it started. I don’t like it when people grab a site and make one post then beg everyone else to help. If I want this to succeed and others to join then I need to make sure it is worthy of their time and attention.

School Days, School Days

Published June 25th, 2006 in News. 0 Comments

I bought a pack of College Rule paper, some mechanical pencils, and a folder. I am charging my laptop and my voice recorder.

Tomorrow I start some schoolin’ on Exchange Server. It sure will be nice to know what we are actually doing on our machines now.

Scheduling the next Skypecast

Published May 7th, 2006 in News, Podcasting and Techie. 0 Comments

Sorry it took so long for me to post after the skypecast. I work Saturday nights at the church and did not get home until 11pm. THen I had consistent problems with every internet connection I came in contact with.

Anyway, I received a note from John Abela that he recorded much of the May 6 skypecast and I will be posting that once he gets it to me (I just contacted him back a short while ago).

I also started a thread in the OSM forum on scheduling the next Skypecast on May 20, 2006. It will probably be 1 hour in length with the following general schedule:

15 minutes: hors d’oeuvres, small talk and everyone asking if they can be heard.

15 minutes: limited discussion of the primary topic

15 minutes: questions from the peanut gallery

15 minutes: general duscussion

∞: Just hanging around and talking

After ∞ is over I will sing and do a little dance.

I already have an idea for the next discussion (it should be a bit more formal than the previous one) and I am checking in on someone who would be good for the topic.

Skypecast Scheduled: May 6 @7:30pm EST

Published May 5th, 2006 in News, Podcasting, Religion and Techie. 0 Comments

I registered a Skypecast for 7:30pm EST (GMT -5) on Saturday, May 6.

If you are interested in trying it out, then come join in: Christian Ministry Technology
I have no idea how this all works so this seemed to be the perfect way to try it. Perhaps we could even schedule a regular gathering online.

Just download Skype and register then stop in at the scheduled time to try it out.

I dug out my headphone/microphone set to make it useable and I will have Trillian loaded up with my instant messenger accounts active.

Look for the following
Skype: mrherald
ICQ: 170940108
AIM: bobedbrown
MSN: bobedbrown @ hot mail .com (take out the spaces)
Yahoo: osministry

I’m looking forward to trying this out.

Thanks to Casting Crowns

Published April 19th, 2006 in Misc Othr Stuf and News. 0 Comments

As I mentioned in a post earlier today we rented the Veterans Memorial Arena (although we did not use the entire arena) for our Easter service so we could have everyone from the two campuses and all of the services together at one time (I saw people Sunday that I had not seen in years).

While I was editing the pictures I thought I should also give out a note about some incredible help from Casting Crowns. They had a concert on Saturday and not only loaned us some of their equipment (so we didn’t have to drag it out from the church and set everything up fresh on Sunday morning), but their production crew stayed around and manned (womanned too) the equipment. They had their cameras set up and even had some guys on stage getting close-ups. It really looked awesome.

I personally am thankful that as a part of getting everything ready they gave backstage passes to some of our media guys. Because of that I was able to lock up the church building early. Who wants to drag rehearsal late when you could be hanging out at a concert pursuing necessary reconnaisance.

This Saturday, Disney on Ice (actually not a reference to cryogenics) will be performing Finding Nemo. I doubt they would have been a amenable to us using their equipment.

Next week we will be across the road at the baseball grounds for a Suns game. Our choir is singing the national anthem, our preacher is throwing out the pitch (potentially his shoulder), and Barlow Girl will be performing after the game.

The following week VeggieTales will be performing live on our stage.

In other words, it’s getting a bit busy around here.

A different perspective on the eclipse

Published March 30th, 2006 in Misc Othr Stuf and News. 0 Comments

Those astronauts have all the fun. While I was sleeping (force of habit) this morning there was a solar eclipse. While part of the world was experiencing the moon’s shadow as it occulted the Sun in one of the remarkable moves of the celestial dance I was experiencing the typical shadow I get every night when the Earth passes between me and the Sun.

The inhabitants of the International Space station, however, got to see this view of the moon’s shadow from space (this and other neat stuff in a recent post from Robert Scoble).

I did see the eclipse later in the day. Check it out from Side, Turkey (located between the leg and wing). May 29, 2006 Eclipse

And so goes Sun-Earth Day 2006

And “they” say Creationism is faith based . . .

Published March 17th, 2006 in News and Religion. 2 Comments

I don’t have enough blind faith in me to ever think that these people know what they are talking about.

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