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Thursday, 31 January 2008

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Friday, 11 January 2008

  • Daily Audio Bible

    Hey, have you ever read the Bible through? Highly recommend this podcast at www.dailyaudiobible.com or iTunes.

    Every day Brian reads a section of the Old Testament, the New Testament, a Psalm and a Proverb, so by the end of the year you will have read the entire Bible through. It's made an incredible difference my my and my wife's lives. We're smarter and oh so wise. Seriously it has changed my perspective on God, myself and this wacky W-W-W-World.

    This year I am reading the Bible in chronological order, so by now I have already read Genesis 1-11 and am working on Job 24. Whoo-wee!!

Tuesday, 08 January 2008

  • Tell us about your first time

    ....to use the Internet (sorry, I'm not doing dgausepohl).

    I'll start - it was 1988 or thereabouts and I was working for a mathematical software company called IMSL in their IT department. I got involved in helping to get IMSL connected to the Internet via NSFnet.
    We had to arrange a special MAN connection, probably T1, to Rice University. Rice was the local connection to a network of Texas universities. The connection fee was $10,000.00 USD and we had to sign a usage agreement that stipilated that we would not use the internet access for profit.  We had a lot of PhD in mathematics working at IMSL so the excuse was that they would be doing collaboration or something.

    There was no World Wide Web, it was just the boring Internet and that meant TEXT. I logged into my Sun Microsystems 3/50 workstation in my office on the 23rd floor of ParkWest Tower on Westheimer and typed in some Unix commands to open an smtp email session. I recall that I exchanged email with my brother. Other than that I just sent emails to some professors that we were trying to get help us arrange access to some Cray supercomputer for software testing. 


    PRETTY BORRRRING HUH?

    So, tell us about your first time.

Friday, 04 January 2008

  • New Year and focus

    I started this blog site, mostly because everyone else was, and used it, like everyone else was, as a public online journal of sort. Then, like everyone else, got bored with it and ran out of compelling things to say...and the posts got further and further apart. And who wants to read my boring stuff anyway, what do I have to say that is worth your time?

    So starting this year I'll be putting more effort at this and a new theme: the Internet and it's effect on us, or something like that. This seems appropriate at this time because I have developed a new interest in web technology (web 2.0, mashups, social networking blah blah) and also because I have, believe it or not, had a front row seat to the development of this big grand World Wide Web since ancient history of 1988 and have (really) something to say about it and its effect on our (my anyway) lives.....

    More to come.