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 [...]

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 communication”. For [...]

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 been programming in C#, [...]