When I have time this site is going to change. I’ve talked about writing more and then I haven’t, mainly because I feel an obligation to my subscribers, not to overwhelm anyone with random entries. I think I’ve said this before, and obviously this is not a good start to changing the way I blog.
I’m dabbling in a lot of things I’m interested in, getting organized, technology, business stuff, Christian stuff, politics, etc. I worry if I start writing about all those things then I’ll find I lose a lot of readership. But the turth is I think there are people out there who are like me. Okay, maybe not just like me, but a lot like me.
If you’ve ever watched public television, they’ve got this little ad thing that comes up after every show, brought to you by “Viewers like you.” That’s my inspiration for this blog from here on out. I’m still thinking about my subscribers, but now I’m writing whatever is on my mind, and my readers will be “People like me.”

Alright, that’s all for now, busy week, hopefully I’ll have more time later.

my new best friend and favorite website. I read a lot of informational blogs, and most of them I find about one in 8 or less of the articles worth looking further into. When I read through lifehacker I seem to open a new tab for every post!

This probably says more about my interest then anything else, but I say it’s worth a look around.

So, I don’t have my very own cellphone, but my wife recently got one. We’ve been trying to keep good track of her minutes so we don’t get charged tons of extra money. During this careful attention to minutes I realized something.

You know all those automated instructions that nearly everyone has on their voice mail, “To leave a message press “1”…” My thought is that the phone companies do that so that it takes over one minute to leave a message. They double your minutes usage right there!

Besides the fact that rarely does anyone do anything besides leave a message, those who want to do the other things usually know how to.

So, To all my friends and family, take a minute this weekend and go through the complicated admin menus on your phone and figure out how to take off the instructions on your voicemail message. We have sprint and it wasn’t too hard.

That’s my two cents.

And do me a favor and post what cell phone company you use and what steps you took to get rid of that annoying message.

ACLU has an interesting look at the direction our society might be heading.

What do you think?

So, I’m not one to promote Christian culture trends or things like that. In fact I have a disturbing picture to post in a bit that will balance this post out a little. But, I wanted to spread the word in Nashville, that I have been listening to a Christian radio station and… I Like It!
The choice of music on WNAZ is really good. It’s so good I can listen to it when the students are around and that can’t tell it’s not the hip-hop station (like that really means much to any of you). I guess the sort of Contemporary Christian culture is getting a little more hip, cause I’ve heard some good music on this station.
And WNAZ is commercial-free (though they have a commercial announcing that every other song, and they have businesses sponsor the traffic report)! Meaning I don’t fall into the dilemma of having to email the Christian radio station about their horrendous advertising and lack of concern about Christian values within their advertising.
So, if you got a chance flip the dial to 89.1fm in Nashville or go to WNAZ.com to listen online.

Okay, the infomercial is over.

Another attempt to reach a group of people with a contextualized Bible Translation.

I think some of you might enjoy this version: SMS.

Okay, Let me take this moment to introduce you to a new wave in the Internet. If you haven’t picked up on it, it’s called ‘tagging.’

The basic idea is an effective labeling system for your stuff (images and bookmarks, etc). The amazing thing is collaborating this tagging system with others, known as folksonomy. Now we are just beginning to see the popularity of sites using this system, and believe me they are popping up all over.

I’m only doing a short little post on this for right now because I wanted to give others a heads-up so they can explorer this quickly up and coming Internet trend. Here are two sites that are at the head of this trend: del.icio.us and flickr. First, del.icio.us is a chance for you to not only take all of your bookmarks and share them online with friends and others. Not only can you share your bookmarks but you can see others bookmarks who have used similar tags as you, and search for tags for topics your interested in. For some of your coming Internet searches I suggest you try searching del.icio.us tags as well and see how effective it is.

Second, flickr started off as a great site to post your pictures to share with friends and family. Now, it is becoming a one stop shop for getting the pictures you want. Try a flickr tag search to see what I mean.

That’s all for now. I hesitate to show you my del.icio.us page as they are rather unorganized and incomplete, but here it is. And for those interested my flickr page for all to see.

p.s. before you start tagging here are some tips from top taggers.