Great artwork by Jeremy Cowart…definitely worth a look and to experience this image coming to life.
A Portrait of Christ
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Category Archives: I Love Technology
Avoid Digital Devastation
Currently, this is one of the windows on my computer screen.
Over 1.2 million files on my computer are being backed up to prevent possible digital devastation.
I’ve written about this before, but need to say it again (mostly to myself). If you have not backed up your computer files, do it now.
The money* you’ll spend on a hard drive is worth not having the sickening feeling that you’d have if:
1. You just lost all of your pictures of your wife, kids, and experiences from the past year.
2. You lost all of your work files and were in the middle of a big project.
3. You lost thousands of dollars in music files.
Costco, Wall-Mart, Target, Best Buy all sell external drives. About 6 months ago I bought a 500gb hard drive for around 80 dollars. If I had just lost all of the stuff on my computer: music, pictures, thoughts recorded, ministry ideas, movies created, etc…and someone said, “Would you spend $80 to have all of this back?” My answer would be an easy ‘Yes’*
*If I had $80 dollars available at the time. This is not condoning debt or financial irresponsibility!
Blogo – My New Blog BFF
My buddy Mike showed me another great tool to make my life easier. Meet Blogo, my new blog best friend forever. It has pretty much everything I’ve ever wanted in a blog creating software: drag and drop, offline editing, seamless integration with WordPress, the list goes on…but it also has features that make it even better than I imagined: the ability to crop pictures after they’ve been inserted in a post, a Safari (or other browser) link that creates posts from highlighted material in other sites (with a hyperlink and in a quotation style). This is saving me so much time and if you blog you should definitely look into it.
Things Are Going to Change
Yeah me too, but I’m talking about my blog. I’m bored with how it looks so it’s time to do some updates. To Jen’s blog too…and I’m going to be creating a blog specifically for news and info revolving around our work in Barcelona.
I know you’ve all been waiting eagerly for this news….there you have it. Both me and my blog will continue to grow and change…that’s good news for us all.
MacHeist
I found out about Macheist at MinistryTechBlog. Macheist is offering a great package deal on some software. There are few applications in this bundle that are really great and at the price that they’re selling them it’s a steal. MacHeist is offering this deal for 6 more days. Browse through these apps and see if any of them are useful for you…even if one of them is, you should pick this bundle up.
Another cool deal is that they give 25% of this bundle’s sales to charity. So you can get geeky and generous at the same time! They’ve already raised $293,983 to give away!
Jen’s Blog
We’re experiencing some technical difficulties in our little corner of the blog world…so if you’ve gotten to my blog and were really looking for Jen’s blog (which you probably are!) the click here to get there.
And please bookmark this new address for Jen’s blog: http://allmyish.com/blog/
It will look like this if you get to the right place:
If you are looking for marital issues…
…mess with your wife’s blog.
See, I’m the nerd in the family. I like technology. I like hacking my way through some code and messing things up and then fixing them. This is mostly fun, until I get in too deep. Which happens more than I’d like to admit.
Today I set sail into dangerous waters…I started messing with Jen’s blog. I’m trying to migrate her blog from typepad to wordpress. I think that wordpress is superior and I’ve been using it for the past year. I think that it’s getting better and better and it’s…free software. Between the two of us we were spending close to $200 per year on our blogs. Not anymore.
But I got going too fast today and did some dumb techie thing (rerouted the domain name from the old blog to the new) before Jen had a chance to do what she needed to do…update her pictures on the new blog. So, because of this, I lived a few moments in fear of my life as all of Jen’s pictures on both blogs went missing. Oops. She was not pleased. I was frightened. Frightened that I’d be alone in a house with her if this didn’t get fixed and even more frightened that I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to undo what I had done…
Thankfully, I did. Jen smiled. My pulse went down to a normal level. And we’re harmoniously trying to do this in the right order. I think…
Feedburner
I’ve finally taken another step in my nerdom…I’ve added feedburner to my blog. I barely know what this is other than it helps me keep better track of whose blocking me…that’s blog stalking in case you were wondering.
So if you’ve subscribed to the old feed..all 2 of you…could you update to the feedburner one? It would really help me keep better track of you and ultimately try to market myself out to you more effectively.
If you’ve never seen a feed, and I don’t mean like when a guy feeds like a 1,000 hunting dogs at the same time, then click the little orange icon next to the words “Urban Idealist Posts” and see what happens. Your guess is as good as mine.
Thanks!