title matters and other meandering thoughts

[a lost entry reconstructed]
Call me a slow learner. Now it’s finally making some sense to me about the value of using a title. When I had started blogging in 1999,
I resisted using a title on my blog entries as much as I’d [ . . . ]

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influential people

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Today I finished reading Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt of www.hughhewitt.com,
an A-list blogger depending on which A-list you reference. The book is
a good read, and makes a compelling case for the [ . . . ]

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DSL exile at home

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For those of you keepin’ score at home, I am still dial-up at home (see SOL on DSL).
My previous DSL provider Earthlink still has not removed the signal
from the phone line, and my new provider Verizon cannot activate new
DSL [ . . . ]

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tapping into motivation

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I mused (without a muse for the past 2 weeks) about elusive motivation
a week or so ago, and in a recent conversation, I shared a very small
bit of insight that if one is tapped into intrinsic motivation (aka
passion or [ . . . ]

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my random life #2: improbable workaholic

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Reading Lee’s musing about what he learned on vacation triggered a revelation for me. I might be a workaholic! It’s not a hard confession, but it’s just not how I think of myself (self-perception being as influential as it [ . . . ]

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quick trip, slow travel

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Back from a quick trip out West to Las Vegas, was at Leadership Network‘s Multiplication & Teaching Churches Briefing. Tight schedule, brillant concept: 24-hour schedule that provided exposure and interaction with up to 16 innovatively effective churches.
Like Rudy (who [ . . . ]

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Six Apart and LiveJournal join forces

The rumors are true, Six Apart (makers of Typepad and MovableType) buys LiveJournal. Official press release, FAQs, LiveJournal’s initial comments, and initial rumor [the Internet exclusive].
One of my friends uses LiveJournal. I was disappointed to find out recently that search engines don’t [ . . . ]

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SOL on DSL

Last night was the DSL service ready date. 6:00pm came and went. No DSL. I’m at the 1-month mark of being without DSL, in my valiant attempt to switch from one DSL provider to another.
I have to name them now. I’ve been [ . . . ]

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out of context

Inspired in a different kind of way by jordoncooper.com‘s Contextless Links, how about some out of context quotes:
“I’m an amateur, not a professional.”
the ways that culture shapes faith
in order to take a bit of my own medicine
I can’t make a good coffee [ . . . ]

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