Hey Washington!!!
When the economy tightens up a little, we spend less to make ends meet. Maybe you should try the same. Stop spending so much money. Individuals spending more than they had got us into the current mess. Do you expect the inverse to happen when the government spends money it does not have? Even with tax hikes, you can't pay for what you propose. STOP IT!!!!!
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Joe Schneider (joe@revision29.com) - 03/21/2009
Os X Chrome (Chromium)
I just checked out the Google Chrome source and built it for Os X. It is certainly not finished, but still very cool. I was watching the waterfall that they have which shows if part of the build is broken or not, and when it was all green, I nabbed it.
What I notice is that the draing on the window contents is still sluggish. This is especially evident when resizing it. It is also not smooth when pulling up new pages. The other problem that I see is that the text in the address bar is too freaking huge!!!!
Other notes:
1) The menu option to add a bookmark does not seem to work. It puts the current page in the bookmarks menu, but they cannot be clicked.
2) There are no preferences.
3) A lot of menu options are diabled, and many key combinations bound to those menu items do not work.
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Joe Schneider (joe@revision29.com) - 03/20/2009
Work of the Holy Spirit
There has been a debate in Christianity for a long time as to whether some of the gifts of the Holy Spirit are still given to people. The most debated ones would be healing by touch and speaking in tongues. I have usually pitched my tent in the camp that says these have stopped. This view is labeled cessation. The main passage in 1 Corinthians 13, where it is says that these gifts will stop when "the perfect comes". This perfect is usually attributed to the completion of the Biblical cannon.
Since I have taken a very short look at this passage, I have taken my tent from Cessation Land. The word translated perfect is teleios (Ï„Îλειος) (related to telos), which really means end or complete. It is used almost exclusively in the New Testament of the return of Christ. It is never used in reference to a complete document. The fact is that this is really a difficult text and it is exegetical bad to say this refers to the completed Biblical canon as there is nothing in the passage that hints toward this. You have to look more at the use of this word in the rest of the book and the NT, and when you do that it has much more second coming overtones than we have acknowledged in the past. Thus, exegetically, I am not a cessationist.
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Joe Schneider (joe@revision29.com) - 03/18/2009
Where is my MacBook
I would like to give a shout out for whereismymacbook.com. It is a service that will track your external IP address when you open your web browser. It works by setting your home page to a specific URL that will pull the ip address, then forward to a desired home page. I am currently working on a background daemon that will communicate with the server to update the ip address by sending a simple curl query every 15 minutes. It is a great and free service which has already saved one laptop in its couple of weeks of existence.
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Joe Schneider (joe@revision29.com) - 03/18/2009
Tradition and Church
I am generally weary of traditions that get solidified in churches. The problem is not the tradition themselves, but they they are not adjusted to meed the needs of subsequent generations. Those who hold to the traditions hold on to them and refuse to let them change or let them loose. They may fear that truth, Scripture or the fundamentals of our faith may be under attack, which is a very good concern. When new people come along, these traditions are seen as legalisms and irrelevant to present culture.
I am beginning to think that tradition is not bad. Everyone has them and creates new ones. In 20 years, the traditions of churches will look like the cutting edge movements of today. The problem, as noted above, is that they become tests of faith and orthodoxy and tend to the needs of a particular group. We need to allow ourselves the flexibility to change our traditions for the sake of others so that they be won by the Gospel and not pushed away by our artificial demands. We need to be able to evaluate tradition against Scripture and current cultural need. I am not talking about following every fad, but allowing the Spirit to move in different ways to meet the now generation.
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Joe Schneider (joe@revision29.com) - 03/18/2009
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