Just thought you’d want to know, you of PDA fame, that there is no reason to lose your RV’s anymore.

Although I am working on an even better system, let me tell you how a $20 bill could change your life forever.

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Just a tip to point you toward an excellent research resource. Project Gutenberg digitizes books that are in the public domain (either placed there intentionally or whose copyright has expired) and distributes them via the internet.

You can choose to donate a reasonable sum, but the material is provided at no particular cost to the user. I flip ‘em a fiver once a year just to keep the lights on.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

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(2 Peter 3:16) speaking about these things as he does also in all [his] letters. In them, however, are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Paul was writing under inspiration when he wrote those words that were “hard to understand”.

He, far the better writer who had the additional advantage of writing under inspiration through the holy spirit, found his words misunderstood in some cases and willfully twisted in others. The same has happened for many other portions of the Bible. So I am not surprised that my inelegant writing met with misunderstanding. Writing is an art and a craft and I have not mastered it yet. Words I wrote were, indeed, “hard to understand” through no fault of the reader.

So, I want to apologize to any who found racial offense in some of my previous writings. None was intended and essentially all of the previous postings have been deleted.

I took down most of the previous content. Although begun with great intentions, it suffered from the lack of a clearly defined ‘mission’ and was, all things considered, pretty bad. It got the axe a couple of days ago. It’s not on the Google “Way Back Machine” … so it’s just gone.

I don’t even have a local copy.

I plan to re-vitalize and re-write the blog, following a much more clearly (and narrowly) defined choice of topics. I am hopeful that this adjustment will make this corner of the internet far more useful to you, the reader.

From time to time I will be looking at boxed and free software that makes short work of record-keeping for active Christians. I’ll show you how to create, for instance, a spreadsheet to track (your own) activity and graph your improvement. You choose the activities you want to track, I’ll show you how to track your progress from month to month and year to year.

I’ll try to outline how to do these things in a simple, direct, fashion using both proprietary software on Microsoft Windows and free software running on the Linux operating system.

I’ll publish an assortment of “Read the Bible in a Year” calendars along with some tips for using them.

I have a son who is a capable programmer. I’ve commissioned a couple programs from him that should make your Christian life easier and quicker to keep organized. He could use a few bucks, so I’m going to charge a nominal sum for the programs (all under $10 per license).

I also have begun development of some printed record-keeping material that you will find convenient to carry and useful to organizing your efforts. I plan to offer it for sale in pre-printed and bound form and also as *.pdf files that you can print for yourself to give the tools a fair trial or even to get you and your immediate family through a ‘tight spot’.

All in all, I think that there is much to look forward to here. I hope that you’ll look forward to it with me.

The problems we bloggers face pale in contrast to those faced by that kid on the left. He’s going to be waiting a long time for his next push.

So, keeping that in perspective, let’s take a look at a comparatively minor problem that seems to consume an awful lot of electronic “ink”.

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Patience is the unseen lever that moves the world. Few situations, presently intractable, will not change if we are patient. Then, under the new circumstances, we may find ourselves better able to proceed with our goals.

Here is a thought (and why you may want to bookmark this): this lets you write those ‘letter to the future’ letters that you sometimes read about or see in movie plots.

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Avast, my (free!) anti-virus program of choice, has twice, in as many days, reported that eraser.exe is trying to modify the INI file for Avast. This would seem to be, at the very least, odd. My well-honed personal level of paranoia leads me to regard it as downright sinister.

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The best teacher I ever had was tenured … and that gave her the freedom to teach her final year as she wanted to. On the very first day of our “Seminar in Ideas” class — taught, most likely, as a ‘200′ class in college might be, she noted that we were in a ‘Level 5′ English class — hand-picked, literally, by her — and earning college credit for her class. We thought we had lucked out by applying in time. She noted that almost the entire senior class had applied. There were three hundred applications for 60 seats. She also noted that we were Seniors in high school, most of us bound for college next fall, who had never been taught the art and science of taking notes. So she dispensed with the printed curriculum and taught us how to take lecture notes for 6 weeks. Nearing the end of that detour, we could take notes as fast as she could lecture … and we finished the full, 18 week, curriculum in the remaining 12 weeks.

That is, we read the major work and defended the ideas of two major philosophers every week: twelve weeks, twenty-four philosophers and the high points of nearly thirty centuries of thought.

Every Friday at 2:15 pm, the inquisition convened anew.

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