I know there will be a point where I find my mojo again.
I used to post every day, but got out of the habit.
I’ve got a couple of ideas & stuff for the next couple of weeks, and I need to be more diligent in posting pics of the kiddliewinks, so I think it might be time to get back on the wagon.
Meanwhile, if you didn’t see it on facebook, here’s a very simple video I took the other weekend.
Surely even better than twins is to have two pregnant kiddies?! (looks like Gumnut is already in the midst of a breach birth…)
I think we’ve got enough kids in the house for the moment.
I’m definitely not going to be able to take things to Swanson level…. but I’ll get somewhere…
495 years since the start of the reformation!
May God continue to reform our hearts!
We’ve been looking at buying a new desktop computer. I’ve had our current one since Bible College & it’s starting to get a little slow, and more than a little senile.
I almost bought one a month or two ago, but was thankful I held off when Mac announced that they are rolling out the latest edition of the iMac.
…without an optical drive.
NO DISK DRIVE!!!!
Wow, what a bold move! Of course, the cynics will jump up & down, saying this is the way they force people into purchasing movies through iTunes instead of buying DVDs. Of course, I’m not so naive as to say that this isn’t a consideration for them, but I actually think this is a bold & wise move by the mac people for other reasons.
DVDs, even bluerays are yesterday’s news. Disks are too big, it takes nothing to scratch them & leave them worthless, and solid-state memory is getting cheaper and cheaper by the day. Why would you want a DVD if you can get something on a thumb-sized drive? (apart from advertisers, who, no doubt, appreciate the extra real-estate to advertise their wares….) Why would you have a big device with lots of moveable (read:breakable) parts that take up a lot of room if they don’t really do the job?
At some point in time the world needs to move on, and Mac is showing that they’re willing to do so.
Is it inconvenient?
Darn right! I am thinking about whether I need to rip all my DVDs to a hard-drive so I can still watch stuff in my study… but before I do that, I have to work out whether I am officially breaching copyright law by doing so. Australians, who were one of the lowest per-capita purchasers of videos were apparently the worlds biggest per-capita purchasers of DVDs! Will all of these collections be redundant? It is something to consider.
But I do think Mac is making the right move. As much as I treasure the memory of buying my very first CD (De La Soul’s “three feet high and rising” at Tower Records in San Fran), and my first ever DVD (Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” in bought in Melbourne) the truth is, the world has moved on & computers ought to as well!
Sometimes Germans are cool.
Well done Felix Baumgartner, becoming the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall.
I haven’t seen any real footage of it yet, but here’s some dude’s lego interpretation!
I read this article about a “white hat” hacker (rather than breaking into sites illegally, they test the vulnerability of big sites & let the companies know about their weaknesses.)
The bit I loved was that google pays these “white hats” for finding vulnerabilities, OR they can choose to refuse payment and have DOUBLE the amount go to their favourite charity!
What a great way for a company to give charitably, while encouraging others to be altruistic in their lifestyle.
I wonder if I could apply this to my kids & pocketmoney one day. Where are those places in our lives, where we could “value add” with our giving?
I enjoyed Angry Birds & I love Star Wars, but….. really?
You could have him reading other people’s shopping lists & it would be interesting.
Tim Goldsmith 