My Friend

Is working out at a gym starting this week. The complaint was that soreness and any weight gain makes you want to give up. I have done that SO many times. Keep going 🙂

Symantec Anti-Virus

So we use this anti-virus software here at work by Symantec [Corporate Edition]. It’s horrible. I turn off it’s ‘real time scaning’ feature so that I can use Source Control software and in 30 minutes it turns itself back on. No matter how I turn it off (from the task bar or from the program’s less than intuitive control panel) it comes back. It’s like this thing I can’t kill. I want it on there most of the time, but this recurring problem is really annoying. My source software slows to a crawl with it on. I love Anti-Virus for protection, but does it have to come at the cost of my computer not working? You can’t get virii on your machine if it doesn’t work 🙂

Modem Still on Order

Qwest, being the sort of company that prides itself for quality customer service, magically cancelled my modem order this week. Friday I ordered it (to fix my connectivity issue with the old modem I got from SBC) and asked that it be shipped next-day on Monday. Well, being that Tuesday is the next day after Monday I waited to call them until Tuesday night when the modem didn’t get here. The helpful person on the other end of the phone informed me the order had been canceled. She didn’t know why, or who I should shoot after finding, the order had simply been canceled. Anyway, she helped me get another one on order immediately – overnighted again. So, this one should get here tomorrow (Thursday) some time. Hopefully in the morning.

I called just now to make sure it was still on order, it is.

Good Theology

There are some good theological papers, articles and books at www.withchrist.org. Definitely recommend the daily devotional. I’m working on converting that devotional into an RSS feed for daily edification… of myself, but hope others would read it as well.

VeggieTales

I have been listening to VeggieTales CD‘s so much with Abby in the car that this morning I got in and didn’t bother changing it or turning it off. This means one of the following:

  1. I’m a good dad
  2. I’m insane
  3. I’ve become numb to kid’s music
  4. Parents around the world do this every day, so I’m normal

IMAP

I was reading Photo Matt ? 0wn3d and I thought to myself: Do you use IMAP? I find IMAP to be ‘the bomb.’ POP3 is annoying and has lots of weeknesses where IMAP is quite amazing to me. I can download only the message headers in my mail client (including the one on my cell phone) and it will not download the 5 MB attachment, giving me an option to look at the headers first and then decide whether I want to open up the message and take a gander at its contents. Just a thought… if you use POP3 consider giving IMAP a try (unless you’re stuck on AOL or MSN web based services – then you’re hosed).

Old Age

The woman that lives across the hallway from my parents is in her nineties. Apparently sometime in the last day or two she thrashed her apartment and about 20 minutes ago the paramedics carried her away on a gurny (I probably didn’t spell that right). She was a sweet woman and would always tell my (50 year old mom) that she should be a model. I’m hoping that she’s all right, but I also hope that she’ll do OK if they have to move her to an ‘old folks home.’ My mom will surely visit her if she does have to move, but I hope that others in her family would, too.

Lemming

Others (1, 2) have been doing this silly thing where they turn to the nearest book, flip open to page 23, find the fifth sentence and type it into their blog. Like this:

Commentary on Isaiah:
Already, in the Middle Ages, this day was sung of as the diesirae, i.e. the dayof wrath.

Author: Harry Bultema