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Peace and blessings to our family members and dear friends! We truly serve a loving, holy, and awesome God whose blessings never cease and whose goodness knows no limit!

We hope to communicate some of the ways that He has blessed us in the past year or so.

We moved from Portsmouth, Virginia to Tempe, Arizona in October, 2001. We made this rather dramatic move because Steve accepted a position doing some specialized web development work for U-Haul in central Phoenix. God's grace was abundant from the beginning. Our house in Portsmouth sold fairly quickly. In Arizona, We found a wonderful church within weeks and felt God knitting us into the body of Christ here.

In February, we bought a house in Gilbert, AZ a little further East from Tempe, in a lovely neighborhood with attractive lakes, walking paths,a park,and nice landscaping.

We really like it in Arizona especially the beautiful sunshine and drier weather. But mostly we felt that the Lord had His hand on us and brought us here to work out His purposes in us.

Jodi took a job working for Re-Mac Computers from January through May helping them launch their software training programs at two locations. It was an enjoyable job, but Jodi desired to focus on some other things and resigned in early May. Soon after that Steve lost the job at U-Haul (about mid-June), and our lives have taken some interesting and unexpected turns.

Peace and blessings to our family members and dear friends! We truly serve a loving, holy, and awesome God whose blessings never cease and whose goodness knows no limit!

Peace and blessings to our family members and dear friends! We truly serve a loving, holy, and awesome God whose blessings never cease and whose goodness knows no limit!

We hope to communicate some of the ways that He has blessed us in the past year or so.

We moved from Portsmouth, Virginia to Tempe, Arizona in October, 2001. We made this rather dramatic move because Steve accepted a position doing some specialized web development work for U-Haul in central Phoenix. God's grace was abundant from the beginning. Our house in Portsmouth sold fairly quickly. In Arizona, We found a wonderful church within weeks and felt God knitting us into the body of Christ here.

In February, we bought a house in Gilbert, AZ a little further East from Tempe, in a lovely neighborhood with attractive lakes, walking paths,a park,and nice landscaping.

We really like it in Arizona especially the beautiful sunshine and drier weather. But mostly we felt that the Lord had His hand on us and brought us here to work out His purposes in us.

Jodi took a job working for Re-Mac Computers from January through May helping them launch their software training programs at two locations. It was an enjoyable job, but Jodi desired to focus on some other things and resigned in early May. Soon after that Steve lost the job at U-Haul (about mid-June), and our lives have taken some interesting and unexpected turns.

(from MacNetJournal) The open-source chat client Fire has been updated to support more AIM features (fire transfers, .mac support, direct chat connections, etc). If iChat is too cutesy for you, check it out.

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Heh. You'll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron's writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

Read more about Mr. (no, wait, Dr.) Byron here.

Ok, I know I shouldn't get sucked into this, but I can't help it! MacRumors is suggesting Apple may sell OS X for x86 to give users an alternative to Microsoft's Palladium spywareOS. Oh, please oh please oh please!

Clark was asked to write up a report on the status of the various intranet/website efforts in his anesthesiology department. In his words, "it's not catching on".

Ack! I think Mail just had an aneurysm and forgot what spam looked like. I had finally switched my junk mail filter to automatic, and for about 2 months it was like a rock. I did not get a single spam in my inbox, and only 2 or 3 false positives.

Heh. You'll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron's writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

Clark just showed up on my iChat buddylist, and instead of a status, there was some musical notes and the name of a Santana song! Whoa! Cool! So I harassed him about it and he pointed to a little prefpane app called iChatStatus. It updates your iChat status to show the currently playing song in iTunes. Coool! Also included are aplescripts to let iChatStatus show things like the web page you're currently viewing, or the active application, and other goodies.

Aaron Swartz has set up a new site where he's discussing limitations to free speech. I don't agree with absolutely everything he says there, but he makes some very good points as well. Bits Are Not A Bug.

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Heh. You'll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron's writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

Read more about Mr. (no, wait, Dr.) Byron here.

This is NOT a slam on Seth, but I'm ruing the fact that the new weblog plugin does not have it xml-rpc API yet. I miss posting with Sid, which makes posting news from NetNewsWire much easier.

I have to admit that it took me a minute to see why the name of Google's news product search site, Froogle, was so apt. <smacks forehead> (via the Google Weblog) Very very cool though! We've been waiting for this for a long time.

Heh. I was playing around with the new Google WebQuotes, courtesy the Google Weblog.

Conversant's Weblog 2 plugin is getting better and better! While Jodi and I were away in Northern California this weekend, it gained the ability to specify which custom field to use for weblog categories, and really streamlined the channel management tools (see the right side of this page for what I mean by channels).

Dave on NetNewsWire's recent support for scripting:

For what it's worth, of course, Radio's aggregator has had infinite extendibility with scripts for a long time, on Mac OS X, with AppleScript, etc etc. (link) Yes, Dave, but NetNewsWire is a full Mac OS X app, not a Mac OS X shell on a Mac OS 8 app with a Mac OS 7 interface. It also runs, without crashing, for days on end, and without ever making a bump on the performance meter.

By "you", of course, I mean Conversant. I spent most of the day working on the rebuild of a client's site. The orginal site (built by myself and my employer in 1997) had a Case Study section. It was all static HTML (as was the entire site) and was a pain to put together. Today I sat down and moved the content over into the Conversant site the client has been using for about a year now.

Hehe. /. brings news of an incredibly well-done model of the USS Enterprise D (ST:TNG) built out of LEGO. This is awesome. I mean, wow. Bravo!

As some of you may have seen in an earlier post, I'm moving my personal weblog over to monkinetic. The new blog has an rss feed too, so if you want you can subscribe to the feed at this url.