Thanks to Sony, I’m now two for two with laptop batteries that need to be replaced so that they don’t burst into flames in my lap. I already have a new battery on the way from Dell for my work laptop. Thankfully, I had a spare battery that isn’t in danger of incinerating my thighs, […]

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I’ve experimented a few times with an easy way to add a moblog, but never quite found what worked best — until now.
Shozu seamlessly grabss photos I take on my SDA and sends them to Flickr. WordPress then automatically puts those images in the righthand column of my blog thanks to a plugin called flickrrss. […]

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Conrad Gempf emailed me to let me know that, with Zondervan’s permission, he is making Jesus Asked available for free in the form of a audio book/podcast. I’m subscribing.
I’ve said it before, but I appreciate Conrad’s writing, because he brings his scholarly study of Jesus to us in a package that is readable by all. […]

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Anyone else out there having trouble with Bloglines? When I click on some of my feeds, even though it says there are unread items, nothing shows up. I have confirmed by clicking through to the sites in question that there are new posts. I’d hate to see Bloglines become unreliable, because it’s been such […]

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As of yesterday, our house is now HD equipped. Comcast is really friendly toward satellite customers, so we made the jump…for now at least.
I can’t believe how much I already want to ditch any channel or show that isn’t in HD. I watched some World Cup today and it looked great — condolences to my […]

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As promised, here are some further thoughts on The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture, by Shane Hipps.
The premise of the book can be reduced to one central concept: “Whenever methods or media change, the message automatically changes along with them.” It was Marshall McLuhan who first developed this idea, and Hipps draws on his work […]

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My beloved podcast partner, Zach Lind, has me pegged pretty well. When I’m on the hunt for new music, I ask him. He knows a lot of bands, and he knows my taste, so he usually connects me with a winner. Now, he’s spreading his recommendation magic into books, where he is now two for […]

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I have three invites to the beta for ebible.com to give away. Leave a comment if you’d like one.

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Apple rolled out the MacBook today. (Kind of ironic since we picked up a used iBook really cheap off of Craigslist yesterday, but I already suspected this was coming, so no regrets.) Most people will be raving about the black, which is nice, but the black costs more than the others…it’s not as if you […]

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After seriously considering a switch to Cingular to get a Cingular 2125, we decided to stay with T-Mobile, and we got the T-Mobile SDA. Wow.
First of all, T-Mobile came up 1st or 2nd in customer satisfaction in all the reviews I found…Cingular was pretty much the opposite. Even my own experience with that. I spent […]

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The Short Version: PlanterBlogs.com is now PlanterPlanet.com. PlanterBlogs.com will no longer work, so please update your bookmarks and links on your site in order to help spread the word. (If you are subscribed to the old feed, it’s address has not changed, so you don’t need to change anything.)
The Long Version: Sometime in the last […]

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Our phone contracts with T-Mobile are just about to expire, and I’m heavily considering switching Sherri and I over to a shared Cingular plan with rollover minutes. I think we might be able to save $30/month this way.
I’m pretty fascinated with the Cingular 2125. If anyone has any experience with this phone, or […]

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Google Calendar apparently went live tonight, because I just logged into it for the first time. I can’t wait to get into it and play around to see how functional it might be. They are well on their way to completely create an online version of an office suite. They won’t be the first to […]

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One of my least favorite things in the world has been trying to figure out how to hold a book open while I type quotes from it using both hands…until now!
I’ve discovered the ipod book hack. It does require that you have a rubber skin on your ipod, but it is perfectly weighted to […]

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Introducing… inbreaking.com
I’ve become a fan of the social bookmarking websites that are springing up such as Digg and del.icio.us. I’ve found some of notable and helpful links through what others have posted on these sites. So, when I stumbled on a digg lookalike script called pligg, I decided to give it a try and inbreaking.com […]

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