Technology, Theology, and Anything In Between

I decided over the Christmas holiday to install Vista Ultimate on my laptop. Since I have a 64 bit processor, I loaded the x64 version.

Of course, I loaded all the usual stuff, like Visual Studio 2005, and my programming tools.
I also loaded Logos, since I use that for lesson and sermon preparation at [...]

As someone who has an Amateur Radio license, and has gone to church all my life, plus having a degree in Biblical Studies, it has been easy to draw and recognize similar patterns between the two entities.

1) “The net” vs. “The ecclesia”
In Amateur Radio, “nets” meet for a given purpose, such as passing messages, [...]

I’m officially on Christmas vacation now. Work is getting very busy,so it will be nice to have the time off. I have been thinking aboutthe blessings that I have, and the graciousness of God in giving themto me. I’m sitting on a couch in a nice warm house, using wirelessinternet and a Cingular 8125 pocket [...]

Well, it finally happened…. the FCC has decided that code will no longer be a requirement for any of the license classes. I think that it probably is for the better. Morse Code has its place, and most of my HF operating has been with Morse, but there are better systems for “emergency [...]

I recently upgraded my copy of SlickEdit. I bought version 8, and then as part of the maintenance agreement received version 9. This was, I think, before full .NET support was built in. I did not renew, simply because I was not doing coding work at the time. Now that I’ve [...]