20 hours ago, WordPress 2.0 was released. 20 minutes ago, I downloaded the new code (put up a temporary offline notice, got rid of the old 1.5.2, installed the new). Less than 9 hours from now, I’ll enter a new year with [ . . . ]
towards a more social web
Lots of buzz building around Web 2.0, and I’m watching it unfold with eager anticipation; eHub keeps a running log of Web 2.0 apps. When hunger pangs hit me last night, I wandered online for a place to eat. I found the [ . . . ]
risky blogging
Blogging is risky; risky business. The internet has a profoundly long memory of all that someone has written, thus a political and professional liability. Yes, everything that I’ve written can be found by someone who does a Google-style background check on me, [ . . . ]
Whole lotta Christ’s Birthday Celebrations
Scot “Jesus Creed” McKnight makes a gracious appeal in When Christmas falls on Sunday that Christians of all people can and should show Good Will Toward Megachurches, those that have decided to celebrate a day (or two) earlier and to close on [ . . . ]
2 great dining finds
Gotta tell you about 2 great delish’ dining finds, one franchise-wide, one local (to McLean, Virginia). Last night, made a stop at Cheesecake Factory as an alleged mystery shopper, probably disqualifying ourselves because we didn’t sit right at the bar like we [ . . . ]
Asian American Pastor? Need your wisdom.
Are you an Asian American pastor, or know of one? Get $10 for filling out a quick survey*, and help with this research project. You can pass it along too, or better, link to the permalink here. Greetings! I am a professor [ . . . ]
the Asian, the mission, and the stereotype
A good number of actors and actresses don’t want to be typecast or stereotyped, primarily or exclusively identified with a particular character or role. A good number of Asian American don’t want to be typecast either, seen as only Asian, or often [ . . . ]
Verizon kudos, evangelicals documentary
Kudos to Verizon, at least this 1 CSR (customer service representative) named Michael, who was able to aptly diagnose and fix the DSL problem that had plagued my family all weekend. Our DSL internet connection was very intermittent, sometimes I could get [ . . . ]
Closed for Christmas, even churches
Speculations have surfaced that some churches are combating the nominal C&E (Christmas & Easter) Christians by keeping their doors closed on Christmas this year, to goad these nominal Christians to either attend more regularly or don’t come at all. I had first [ . . . ]
