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Friday, August 4th, 2006MacBook Pro 15″ Blogging tonight from it in fact! Now I can officially retire my Dell Inspiron to the bottom of the Hudson River. Or, as a friend suggested, conduct a ritual burning of some kind. Either way, what a relief to have a reliable computer again. Much love to the donors who made it [...]
Paging Bob, Ben, Matt, Rudy, Teter, and Mac aficionados everywhere
Thursday, June 15th, 2006An anonymous reader asked: “Im sick of PCs… can anyone tutor me to use a Mac… what are the differences nowadays?” Give us your best 2-3 sentence pitch in the comments section here. Note to self (6/24/06): Remember to import comments.
“His parents didn’t know about his journey until he told them by e-mail.”
Saturday, December 31st, 2005More on those tech-savy milennials: A 16-year old Florida boy plays hooky for a week, buys a plane ticket, and flys to Iraq. Mom and dad were clueless until after the fact. He’s due home after the New Year. Says mom: “Once he’s back and safe in my arms, then, yes, he’s going to be [...]
Behind the curve, again
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Five years ago, a global evangelical ministry asked a group of youth workers how to become relevant to young people. We suggested leveraging the power of the internet to create a “virtual youth center” where kids could share interests and ideas, find their voice, and connect. Several months later they hired me to write a [...]
CCDA blogging
Sunday, December 11th, 2005One of the highlights of the CCDA conference last month was pinch hitting for Rudy to co-present the City Blogging workshop with Neil Cox. Neil’s a blog machine while I’m still a relative newbie, so it made for a fun presentation. Neil just posted a question from Linda Dyer, one of the workshop participants, and [...]
I’m using Firefox
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005Explorer keeps crashing on my home PC, so I downloaded Firefox the other day. So far, so good. It appears to be much more stable. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 11/01/2005 10:00:00 PM 2 comments
Spam-ploitation
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005I received a spam email today with the following subject line: “Nagin said he still needed to confirm a report that the floodwaters will be gone much sooner than first thought, but progress was being made.†The email had absolutely nothing remotely to do with hurricane relief or even New Orleans. Some people are simply [...]
I feel the need for speed
Monday, May 16th, 2005“‘Internet2 is a thousand to 10,000 times faster than the networks that people typically have in their homes.’ The network is so fast that downloading an entire feature-length film isn’t a matter of hours or days, but mere minutes or even seconds.” More here.
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