Technology, Theology, and Anything In Between

I just installed Fedora Core 6 last night. The install went without incident. For the last week or so, I’ve been running speed tests on my business Cable internet connection. I am paying for 6mbps down/2mbps up. I’ve been getting about 6 mbps down, but only 1 mbps up in most cases, sometimes even less. [...]

I had a good experience using my Cingular 3G device today. I used my laptop at an offsite location, started up a data session, and then dialed into a conference call. So I was able to totally do everything that I could do in an office, and the 3G speeds were acceptable for the WebEx [...]

I’ll admit it — I’ve become a fan of converged devices — more specifically, PDAs that have cellular phones built into them. I’ve owned several Blackberry units since 2003, and have now moved on to devices produced by HTC. I recently forgot to bring my Bible to church, and then remembered that I could use [...]

I found http://www.gettymusic.com while browsing some other blogs last week. I really appreciate the work the Gettys are doing, creating modern hymns. Their website is worth a look, and I will be buying their CD in the future.

Cingular mentions in their ads that they have the fewest dropped calls in their network. I find that I rarely drop a call here in New England. However, today I had one, and it was on Rt. 20 in CT, right before getting onto I-91. When I had AT&T; wireless (just after they merged with [...]

I’ve been using OpenDNS for the last week. This service is a free, open DNS server system which claims to be faster than using ISP DNS servers. I do seem to notice a little increase in resolution speed (web page content will not download faster). There are other benefits, like redirecting a mistyped URL, to [...]