Category Archives: Technology

One Laptop Per Child

I’ve been following the One Laptop Per Child project for a couple of years now, getting more and more excited as it progressed toward becoming a reality. And now it’s here. I’m excited because it combines three things (perhaps three … Continue reading

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Your Own Personal Gutenberg

An article I co-authored with Shawn Coons about Web2.0 and its relevance to the church was recently published in the Presbyterian Outlook magazine: But what does any of this Web 2.0 stuff have to do with the church? Wikipedia brings … Continue reading

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This is for you, Bettina

(and any other copyright hawks still reading)

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Commercials

Today’s viewing entertainment has been brought to you by Novell. I’m not a huge fan of SUSE Linux (Novell’s product) but we’re all on the same team, right? (I’ve been happily using edubuntu Linux for almost two months now). But … Continue reading

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Brand New Day

913914915 Moving day. Not physically (although that will come soon, too) but digitally. Today I begin migrating all of my files, applications and other software from Windows to Linux. Documents are a snap — nothing to do, since I already … Continue reading

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Free at last…Thank God Almighty, Free AT LAST!

Unless you know me very well, you have NO IDEA just how excited I am right now. It’s 1:00 in the morning, February 9th 2007. I’m sitting in my office at church (yes, I know–I should be home now). But … Continue reading

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Web 2.0

If you don’t know what Web 2.0 is (or even if you do) you have to watch this–it’s awesome. If a picture says a thousand words, then an embedded video about embedded videos and hypertext and XML and blogging and … Continue reading

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