Category Archives: Random Miscellany

Laptop: Stolen

Random Miscellany

My Stolen Laptop
Update: Insurance has come through! See my comment…

If I had a dog, I suppose I’d lose it, next.

:: sigh ::

This last Sunday night, after I returned home from a quick coffee-run, some miscreant waltzed into my garage and boosted my $1,800 laptop, shown at right. In case some ethical pawn shop owner uses Google to validate their stolen goods, the laptop is a Gateway model 7510GX, serial # N3258 010 02495. Or perhaps you are not intending to be an ethical merchant, but because the mouth-breather who stole my laptop was too stupid (or in too great a hurry) to also steal the attached power converter, you might be trying to lookup suitable power supplies for a Gateway laptop of this model. Well, you’ve come to the right place. If you will reunite me with my laptop, I’ll gladly give you the power supply.

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Killer squirrels attack. Oh, the irony.

Fiction, Links, Random Miscellany

Back SquirrelIn a completely non-churchy, frivolous post, I had to share this with you. My head is reeling with the story, and I’m amused that a piece of “creative” fiction I wrote doesn’t seem as far-fetched as I once thought.

First, the news item, via the BBC.

Last Thursday, a pack of hungry, killer squirrels (yes, that’s right — squirrels) descended from from on high to terminate with extreme prejudice a stray dog. The stray was, admittedly, annoying the hungry squirrels: loitering around their tree, barking at them with short-lived temerity. When the black squirrels finally had enough, they swarmed down the tree like ninja rodents, attacked the dog and literally eviscerated him.

When some human-folk came to investigate, they scampered off … some of them still clamping dog-meat in their jowls. Read about it here:

Continue reading Killer squirrels attack. Oh, the irony. →

Farewell to CTI: A retrospective, and thanks

Random Miscellany, Work

Christianity Today InternationalAs I have mentioned in various posts throughout this weblog, I have been a proud employee of Christianity Today International for some time now. After serving as the first webmaster for the General Council of the Assemblies of God and a brief stint as a self-employed consultant, I was invited to join CTI’s staff by Vice-President of R&D, John LaRue.

That was in the late-summer of 1999. I already had a relationship with CTI by then because when the A/G first decided to go online in 1995, we did it through CTI’s America Online content-provider area, “Christianity Today Online.” In order for the A/G to provide content on AOL via CTI, I was sent to the CT offices in Carol Stream to learn how to use the AOL “Rainmaker” system for content-management. (What a headache that system was!) As it turned out, only a few of us outside content providers ever took advantage of the training CTI provided after returning home, and that apparently made me noteworthy in CTI’s eyes. So, when Judy Gill, office manager for the content production team at that time, found out that I was no longer working for HQ, she prevailed upon John LaRue to find a way for me to come work on staff in an official capacity.

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Hello from the ECPA University!

Random Miscellany

Today (Tuesday, the 14th), I will be giving a presentation at the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s third annual “Publishing University.” This is a shout-out to anybody from the ECPA-U who’s stopped by to say hi.

My assigned topic is “Technology for Editors.” But After working through several different plans of attack — and nearly losing my laptop in the process — I’ve settled on the subject: “Strategies for working and publishing in an information age.”

I plan to give a very broad view of three subjects that could easily justify a week-long course for each:

Continue reading Hello from the ECPA University! →

Eric Brian Golden sentenced to life. Or 14 years. Whichever comes first.

Assembly of God, Random Miscellany

Eric Brian GoldenAn alert reader notified me that on Tuesday, October 17, Eric Brian Golden admitted to murdering his wife, DeeDee Marie Golden late one night 11 months ago, on November 17, 2005.

If you’re new to this blog, I wrote about Brian Golden previously. He was an ordained Assemblies of God minister, serving as youth pastor at Southside A/G, in Savannah, Georgia. Here are the former posts:

Continue reading Eric Brian Golden sentenced to life. Or 14 years. Whichever comes first. →

A/G Podcasts? Maybe. But meanwhile…

Assembly of God, Links, Podcast/Media, Religion

MicrophoneFound yesterday on the AG-NEWS announcement list:

AG News wants to know if podcasts of sermons/messages by the local church is widespread.

Take the short AG News poll and let us know! Click here to begin…

I took the poll.

I listen to a lot of sermons and other spoken word content on my PocketPC. I load it up each week with chocolaty goodness and fill my mind while commuting the two hours I spend driving each day.

Here’s to hoping the A/G decides to promote podcasting by the local church. Though, not every church needs to (or should) podcast, it would be good to get some of our better preachers more exposure.

Meanwhile, check out my good friend John Abela‘s online audio initiative for A/G preachers at:

Continue reading A/G Podcasts? Maybe. But meanwhile… →

On Blogging: A Challenge to Pentecostals

Blogging, Rage and Rants, Random Miscellany

KeyboardI want to say a few words about the power of blogging on a personal level. And I want to challenge my fellow quiet Pentecostals and Charismatics to pick up the keyboard and begin writing.

Words have Consequences
A friend on an email message group recently asked me about the effectiveness of ministering through a blog. So I’d been thinking about that when a couple things landed in my inbox that encouraged me and seem to illustrate the answer to his question. Writing in a public forum — whether blogging, managing a web page, or crafting freelance articles for a newspaper or magazine — can have an effect.

First up, from Amber, who sent me a nice note via my online contact form:

« I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your blog.  … Your blog is always honest and open, you don’t shy away from even the hard stuff in your comments. After joining the Assemblies at 16, I soon discovered that opinions and controversy and doubt are all too often a flag for that person needing to “get saved” again.

I have just recently left the Assemblies … but a part of it is still in me, hopefully the good parts. And honestly, I think all of those good parts are what you portray here at your blog.

Thanks for being there and restoring a little of my fragile hope for humanity. »

Continue reading On Blogging: A Challenge to Pentecostals →

Jesus Camp and BlogRodent on MSNBC

Pentecostal, Random Miscellany, Religion

MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart
At 2:40 PM (CST) on Tuesday, September 26, I “appeared” on MSNBC’s ‘Net review: The Most, with Alison Stewart. Alison’s producer spoke with Mark Moring, editor for the Christianity Today Movies channel, wondering if he’d be willing to answer a few questions about Jesus Camp on-air.

Since I’d seen the documentary and recently written an article for CT Movies, he deferred to me. I nervously accepted the opportunity.

I appeared not as a representative of Christianity Today (my employer), but as “a Pentecostal blogger” writing for Christianity Today Movies.

For three minutes, I fielded three questions:

  • “What did you walk away from this documentary thinking about Evangelical camps for kids?”
  • “Becky Fischer … was not pleased with the film. … How important do you think it is to talk about context when you’re documenting religion?”
  • “Is this in any way … ‘brainwashing?'”
jesus camp — click to view larger

Alison’s second question, by the way, is the critical question to ask of this film, and I’m delighted she asked it. (Most blogging punderati never get around to this.)

I’m hardly as articulate on-air as I sound in my own cavernous head. More pity me. I flubbed a couple word choices, have since been corrected on the inflammatory “liberal democrats” phraseology (I used Grady and Ewing’s own self-description, but should’ve said “secular liberals”), and the moment I laid the phone down a dozen brilliant answers to Ms. Stewart’s questions popped into my medicine-fogged cranium. (When in doubt, always blame the meds!) I’ve since forgotten my witty riposts, so don’t ask me to repeat them here.

Watch the clip (below) and observe how I answered Alison. If you can stand the pain, that is.

Alison Stewart, with MSNBC's The MostBy the way, this was the first I’d even heard of The Most — much less seen it — I’m impressed. I don’t know how Stewart and staff can pull together a live one-hour broadcast so professionally executed every single day. It must be almost as stressful as crossing a highway while jugging blindfolded. No wonder her producer was sounding frazzled!. They have my congratulations and an empathetic hat-tip.

Please feel free to post your comments and scathing reviews below! Oh, and if you want to send feedback to Alison & crew and carefully explain why it’s generally a bad idea to invite Pentecostals on-air, send an email to: themost@msnbc.com.

Watch the interview clip online: Jesus Camp on The Most — Windows Media or QuickTime

Download it here: WMV (11 megabytes) or MOV (10 megabytes)



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Jesus Camp: Brainwashed in the Blood – or Is it Spin?

Pentecostal, Rage and Rants, Random Miscellany, Religion

Jesus Camp — click to view largerJesus Camp, what an experience. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s investigation into the hidden world of one Pentecostal kids’ camp simultaneously delighted me, fascinated me, and embarrassed me. I love this film. I hate this film.

It angers me.

For those who haven’t seen the trailer, by now, the premise is simple: follow three pre-teens from Missouri heading to a summer camp owned by the Assemblies of God in Devils Lake, North Dakota (Lakewood Park Bible Camp). Document their experiences there, and follow up on the aftermath. Simple enough.

But the devil, as they say, is in the details. Or, in this case, the future Evangelical Army of God is in the details. As Ewing and Grady have noted, their initial raw footage had no real drama: “There was absolutely no conflict. … it wasn’t dynamic enough.” So, toss in a conflicted profile of the “Kids on Fire” camp director, Becky Fischer; include a few oddball characters for color and commentary; stir up dissent using Air America radio host Mike Papantonio and his uninformed Greek chorus of callers. Then get a major Charismatic Evangelical to appear in the documentary to give your subtext some heft and legitimacy and tie it all together with a neat little bow called George Bush and the Supreme Court.

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September 11 and a Terrible Joy

Random Miscellany, Religion

Marc, over at , posted a and its aftermath, now five years gone.

At the very least, whether it’s the day after or five years later, it comes down to how you have made a difference with the life and talents you were given. Have you loved deeply and given much? Can’t do anything about yesterday, today is a work in progress, and tomorrow holds out hope for something better. It’s up to us to grab that opportunity.

Amen.

I’ve been reflecting on this as well, and commenting elsewhere about suffering and tragedy. So, Marc’s post prompted me to say more. And and I thought why not share my thoughts here, as well?

Continue reading September 11 and a Terrible Joy →

Jesus Camp review coming soon, my reaction to the trailer

Pentecostal, Rage and Rants, Random Miscellany, Religion

This week, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s indie documentary, Jesus Camp, is set to release, and already the blogosphere is all abuzz about it. I can’t wait. I will be catching a pre-release screening of the film through the auspices of Christianity Today International, my employer, and will write my reactions to it as soon as possible. Of course, I’ll share it with you.

Upon seeing the trailer, linked below, I was shocked and fascinated. Repelled and embarrassed. And angry. You see, I went to these camps as a kid. I witnessed this kind of exuberant excess, only I saw it with the eyes of an insider, both as a teenager and later as a camp counselor. I have seen the pseudo exorcisms (I sincerely doubt any of the exhibitions I saw at the altar were genuine possession) and I’ve seen my peers faint and wooden on the floor, both praising, weeping, and sometimes faking it.

And, looking back, it is a little creepy. But it was also formative.

Continue reading Jesus Camp review coming soon, my reaction to the trailer →

The One Book Meme. My Response.

Bookshelf, Fiction, Links, Nonfiction, Random Miscellany

I keep seeing these posts where memes get passed around, where one person “tags” another as an inducement to answer a list of questions. One is presumably supposed to answer the questions, post the response, and tag a handful of others.

I had been secretly glad that I’d never been tagged. And I also wondered, just how are you supposed to find out you’re on the hook?

Well. Never mind. There I was ego-surfing my blog, checking out the incoming referrers, wondering who’s linked to me lately, and there I find that Travis Johnson, fellow PneumaBlogger, has done gone and tagged me with the One Book meme.

An enterprising Ben Fernström, with way too much time on his hands, tracked down the beginnings of the One Book meme, wrote an entertaining narrative, and positioned himself as belonging to the 14th generation of this meme’s recipients.

Thus, ultimately, we have Benjamin Myers to blame for this post. I’m the 18th generation of this particular meme, but by a different route (see the note at the end).

:: sigh ::

Well, at least I’m one of the cool kids now!

So, here goes:

Continue reading The One Book Meme. My Response. →

Del.icio.us links for August 26, 2006

Links

Rich's Delicious LinksThese are a few of the things I’ve recently found interesting, but don’t have the time to properly blog on. I don’t necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they’re interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.

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AJ and his first day in kindergarten – a podcast interview

Family, Kids, Photography, Podcast/Media, Random Miscellany

Update: I’ve added Jennifer’s account of AJ’s first day in the comments section, for the interested.

Today we sent our little boy to school for the first time. Nobody wept. There was no gnashing of teeth, wailing, or sack-cloth and ashes. On our part, anyhow. Instead, we were excited to see AJ off to a new adventure in his life, one that promises whole new rafts of friends, future sleepovers, new books to read, realms of knowledge to acquire, and numerous — I repeat … numerous — parent-teacher conferences down the road.

AJ in the parking lot
He’s not angry, just surprised and squinting into the Sun. Or maybe he’s just part Ferengi.

Every parent believes their child to be the brightest bulb in the firmament — with the possible exception of overachieving, insecure parents who vicariously live through their childen, ever suspecting and fearing that their child will prove to be as colossal a failure as they imagine themselves to be.

Not us. AJ is not only bright, he is certifiably bright, even if nobody believes us the first time we warn them — err — inform them. My Bride and are enomously proud of our son (when we’re not enormously vexed by his impulse-control), and I’ve already been justifiably corrected by my son on many observations I’ve made. The days are few until he truly knows more about things than I do and I become the student. Nevertheless, I hope to remain in service as his father, mentor, and guide — even through High School.

Continue reading AJ and his first day in kindergarten – a podcast interview →

Video Games: Violence In, Violence Out?

Links, Rage and Rants, Religion

This is a repost of a recent article for CTLibrary.com. Enjoy, and please post your reactions. (For a related post, see, “Violence and Entertainment.”)

Is mounting teen violence evidence of the effects of violent video games?
CHRISTIANITY TODAY LIBRARY | RICHARD TATUM | JULY 31, 2006

On Tuesday, March 24, 1998, two cousins, aged 13 and 11, soldiered up. Donning camouflage and armed with handguns and rifles, they hid in the trees near Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, while an accomplice set off the school’s fire alarm. The ambush came off with military perfection: firing only 27 shots, the juvenile commandos killed 4 middle-school girls, 1 teacher, and wounded 11 others fleeing the building.

While most planned acts of violence in school are probably foiled, many attempts have been successful in recent years, including several well-publicized events. Beyond the immediate tragedy and bloody aftermath, one troubling aspect of these events is the lack of a profile for children prone to violence. Apparently, children “snap” into violence, and there’s simply no predicting the fracture.

But something is clearly causing a “tipping point,” driving children to violence in increasing numbers. The catalyst, many say, is violent media — specifically, gory video games that desensitize players to violence, train them in deadly shooting skills, and reward killing without consequences.

Continue reading Video Games: Violence In, Violence Out? →

Using Windows Live Writer (beta)

Blogging, Random Miscellany, Site Updates

Okay, so I’m trying out the Windows Live Writer — because I’m a sucker for new tools and I’m always on the lookout for the better (free) blogging tool. Besides, Amy at GentleWhisper made me do it. …

Installation

The install went okay … the second time. The installer wants to add the Windows Live toolbar to Internet Explorer. I initially opted for it, but after Live Writer failed to read my blog settings, I uninstalled everything and started over — this time without the toolbar.

On the second install I de-opted for the MSIE toolbar, since I rarely use MSIE anyhow. This time, Live Writer started up nicely and read my blog settings without halting. Not sure why the toolbar would’ve made a difference. Not sure if it did or not, but second time was the charm.

Setup

After installing,

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My FireFox on crack: the best extensions I could find.

Links, Random Miscellany

Updated: On 9/12/06, I updated this list with my current active plugins.

Because Amy over at GentleWhisper asked nicely, I hereby share with you my fabulous list of FireFox extensions I could not live without. This is my list of plugins at home … my work plugins differ a bit.

A couple recommended exceptions that I don’t list here and which I haven’t gotten around to installing yet are Aardvaark (to modify page layout before printing or copying and pasting) and GreaseMonkey — which allows for select javascript to be run on any page, which makes the options infinitely varied. Oh, and RSSPanel (providing a nice floating menu with links to the sites feed entries and links to the feeds themselves) … which can actually be done away with once you get the proper GreaseMonkey script installed.

  • A9 SiteInfo 1.0 (This puts a little icon in your location bar for the sites that support the extra info [like mine!] that gives you quick access to various areas within the site and quick links to futher information.)
  • Aardvark 1.1 (Ardvaark lets you remove unwanted elements from a page before you copy and paste or print.)
  • About site 0.4 (Provides more information on a site via your context menu.)
  • Advanced Search Sidebar 0.1.8.2 (Nice utilty to improve searchability via your sidebar. Honestly, I don’t use this one much, but it’s there, just in case.)
  • All-In-One Sidebar 0.6.4 (Provides a neat sidebar function for many tools that otherwise wouldn’t show up in the sidebar, plus a whole lot more.)
  • BetterSearch 1.12 (This improves the output of various search engine websites, providing alternate links to other search engines, and more.)
  • Blogger Web Comments 1.3 (This updates the status bar if other blogger.com posters have linked to a particular page. Clicking on it brings up their comments.)
  • Bookmarks Synchronizer 3 1.0.2 (This allows me to synchronize my bookmarks with my FTP site on tatumweb.com–or any ftp site–then I can download them on any other browser using the same plugin. In some ways, this has been superceded by Google’s browser sync, but I still use it, especially since it allows me to keep my bookmarks on my website here: http://tatumweb.com/xbel.xml.)
  • Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics 1.0.1 (A quick test of my actual ISP speed.)
  • BugMeNot 1.3 (Allows me to quickly bypass many newspaper login site forms.)
  • Cacheout! 1.10 (Allows me to query web archives of heavily used or 404’d pages.)
  • coComment 0.2.3.0 (Allows me to track my comments online and quickly see what’s been responded to whether it’s on my site or elsewhere.)
  • Codetch 0.3.7.20060518 (Nifty, quick HTML editor.)
  • CoLT 2.1.1 (Like Copy URL+, this provides a context menu item that allows you to create automatically formatted hyperlinks so you don’t have to do all the rearranging when pasting a link into your blog or a comment form.)
  • Compact Library Extension Organizer (CLEO) 1.0 (works with FEBE to package any number of extensions/themes into a single, installable .xpi file.)
  • Copy URL + 1.3.2 (A quick way to copy the title, selected text, and URL of a page … very useful when I’m emailing somebody a recommended page, or commenting in a blog.)
  • CustomizeGoogle 0.49 (Like BetterSearch, it modifies Google’s search page to my liking.)
  • Data Analytics 0.1.7 (Import, analyze, an extract tabular data from web pages. Haven’t really found a lot of use for this yet.)
  • del.icio.us 1.1 (Allows me to quickly tag pages for Del.icio.us.)
  • DOM Inspector 1.8.0.6 (Techie web page mechanics.)
  • Download Accelerator Plus Integration 8.0.6.5 (Ability to quickly download single files more quickly or multiple files at one swoop. Similar to Down Them All.)
  • Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1 (Modifies my download manager page, not really useful now that I’m using a download manager.)
  • Download Statusbar 0.9.4.1 (Similar to above, but it brings the download status up to the statusbar.)
  • DownThemAll! 0.9.9.6.3 (A built in download manager for Firefox.)
  • Enhanced History Manager 0.5.8.05 (Makes a much nicer history manager, especially when I’m trying to find that site I surved on a couple weeks ago and can barely remember it’s name.)
  • Feedview 0.9.8 (Makes RSS feeds pretty and much easier to read.)
  • Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 3.0 (Allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions and rebuild extensions individually into installable .xpi files.)
  • FireFTP 0.94.3 (Free FTP client, very reminiscent of WS-FTP. There are better FTP clients out there, like Beyond Compare, etc. but this is free and useful.)
  • Google Browser Sync 1.2.20060802.0 (Sync your bookmarks, search history, and cookies with another browser via Google. I turn off the cookies sync.)
  • Google Notebook 1.0.0.5 (Neat way to bookmark sites without making them bookmarks. This is where I store stuff I want to research and delete the links to later on. It’s a notepad, too, so I can store research snippets and full-text paragraphs. It’s sort of a reminder space for me. Nice thing is, it’s stored on Google so it’s available at work and at home simultaneously.)
  • Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W (Just what it says it is!.)
  • Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727 (This is an interesting tool and invaluable once you get used to it. It’s like a super-extension that runs javascript on every page you visit–or only on select pages if you desire. With GM you can add widgets to your favorite pages, remove unwanted elements from the display, add new functions like improving search results with keywords and links to other search engines, automatically hyperlink scripture text, and more, more, more.
  • History Menu 0.44 (Divides my history menu up into days and weeks into the past.)
  • Html Validator 0.7.9.3 (Automatically validate the HTML of every page you visit. When you want, you can examine the errors and warnings. Useful if you’re fiddling with your blog all the time, like I can never seem to stop doing.)
  • Hyperwords(tm) 1.3.1 (A nifty context menu word lookup / reference utility.)
  • IE View 1.3.0 (Just in case I need to see a page in IE, I can pop over to it via the context menu.)
  • Image Toolbar 0.6.3 (Puts an annoying but useful toolbar over images to save, expand, copy, email, etc.)
  • InfoLister 0.9e (A plugin that generates this basic list. Handy for when you want to try to sync plugins across browsers. But there’s a new plugin that actually will export your plugins so you can install them elsewhere that I haven’t tried yet.)
  • LinkChecker 0.4.5 (Test the hypertext links in the page you’re viewing.)
  • Linky 2.7.1 (Validates links in a seperate tabbed window.)
  • Live HTTP Headers 0.12 (Techie view of the server and browser communication bethind the scenes.)
  • lori [Life-of-request info] 0.1.0.20051225 (This puts info in your status bar telling you exactly how long you waited for the first byte, last byte , page size, and number of requests for every page you visit. Yeah, it’s more information than a mortal needs to know, but it was useful when figuring out why my web pages were loading so slowly. It won’t tell me, however, why I write so much.)
  • Mozilla Archive Format 0.6.3 (Allows you to save HTML pages as HTML, MAF, or MHT.)
  • MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay 2.2 (Quickly install plugins because, you never know, that five seconds could be spent writing a blog post.)
  • NeedleSearch 3.1.2 (For any website that provides a search query, you can add it to your search toolbar. Need to search Bible Gateway, add it to the needlesearch by performing a search at BibleGateway in three steps. Google search, image searches, newsgroup searches, and more.)
  • Options Menu 1.1 (This provides a menu to get at all your extensions options without having to click through on each extension to find options to modify.)
  • PDF Download 0.7.4 (Choose whether to download a PDF link, view it in browser, or send it to the application.)
  • People Search and Public Record Toolbar 1.0 (Toolbar with extensive links to various free and paid online databases allowing you to stalk nearly anybody online.)
  • Platypus 0.64 (Works with Greasemonkey. You can remove elements from any page and modify it to your heart’s desire, then turn the result into a Greasemonkey script that will run automatically every time you return to the site.)
  • Resurrect Pages 1.0.1 (Provides an one-click way to grab the archive of a slow-responding web page, can pull it from Coral, Google Cache, Internet Archive, and others.)
  • RSS Editor 0.0.9.1 (Quick tool to edit standalone RSS text files.)
  • Send Page By Email 0.1.0 (Quickly and easily send the web page you’re viewing without having to load GMail or your email client.)
  • Slim Extension List 0.3.1 (This makes the extension list much easier to read and browse.)
  • StumbleUpon 2.83 (Yet another social networking toolbar like Del.icio.us. However, this isn’t as much about bookmarking as it is about random discovery of content enjoyed by like-minded web surfers. It has two great benefits, after it learns what you like, it helps you discover great related content that you are very likely to enjoy. The other benefit is for bloggers who want their content found by strangers. Get your pages added into the stumble database and Stumbleupon will literally drive traffic to your blog.)
  • Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 (This puts a close control button on every tab, which is handy, and provides some other controls, even handier.)
  • Text size toolbar 0.5 (Don’t really need this now that I’m accustomed to using CTRL-+ and CTRL–, but it’s nice to have in the toolbar for when I’m feeling keyboard lazy.)
  • VideoDownloader 1.1 (Can open up a popup window with links to the source media for the videos embedded in a Web page, like YouTube, etc.)
  • View Source Chart 2.4 (Nice way to view the source of a page with all it’s nesting and confabulation.)
  • ViewSourceWith 0.0.8 (Send the source to my favorite text editor, or anything else.)
  • Web Developer 1.0.2 (An indispensible techie toolbar that I wouldn’t live without. It’s varied options are astounding in their usefulness and variety. This is my first install every time.)
  • WordPress.com Sidebar 1.5 (Nifty sidebar to get at administrative functions on WordPress. Only works on your WordPress.com blog, though.)

Enjoy!

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Del.icio.us links for August 12, 2006

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Rich's Delicious LinksThese are a few of the things I’ve recently found interesting, but don’t have the time to properly blog on. I don’t necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they’re interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.

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Blake Bergstrom, pitched tents, and the fake FCC fine

Links, Random Miscellany, Things going awry!

Remember the “pitch his tents” sermon by Blake Bergstrom? No, tell me you haven’t forgotten about the youth pastor who insisted that Lot pinched his bosom … several times–and then nearly passed out from embarassment. Well, then refresh your memory over at “When sermons go awry“, first, because the followup here is priceless.

Blake still has a job, fortunately, but his employers aren’t above never letting him live it down. Recently, the film crew of Prank 3:16 showed up with several hidden cameras and wired the church offices for sound. Continue reading Blake Bergstrom, pitched tents, and the fake FCC fine →

Del.icio.us links for August 9, 2006

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Rich's Delicious LinksThese are a few of the things I’ve recently found interesting, but don’t have the time to properly blog on. I don’t necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they’re interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.

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  • State of the Blogosphere, 08/08/2006 (Technorati)
    – Technorati tracking 50 Million+ blogs
    – Blogosphere over 100x bigger than 3 years ago.
    – Blogosphere doubling in size every 200 days
    – 2+ blogs created every second, 18.6 posts per second (2x last year’s volume)
    – ~70% of the pings Technorati receiv&hellip
  • AOL’s disturbing glimpse into users’ lives | CNET News.com
    An AOL researcher inadverntly released a database of 21 million search queries to the Web. It’s been snagged and is providing a valuable trove of sociological search behavior … and potential privacy intrusion if the ID numbers are ever associated with u…

[tags]2006, AOL, behavior, blogging, blogosphere, BlogRodent, charts, data-mining, graphs, ideation, integrity, internet, privacy, psychology, search, search-engines, security, sociology, statistics, technology, technorati, trends, web[/tags]