Monthly Archive: February 2005

2 shy 0

2 shy

My Bloglines reader tells me I have 498 feeds, 2 shy of 500. Hearing Robert Scoble on a podcast say that he was subscribed to 1400 feeds, and I’d imagine he’s broken 1500 by now, I don’t feel so bad...

life is unfair

life is unfair

Life is unfair, we all have to deal with it. Most get inherited advantages (or disadvantages) via genetics or finances. The Economist captured an incisive analysis of meritocracy in America: Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend. While on paper...

limits of leadership 0

limits of leadership

Taking an online course, Dynamics of Leadership. Great deal b/c I’m auditing as a DTS alum — no homework, streaming videos of Howard Hendricks in action, plus transcripts of the lectures. Better than sitting in class to take notes! It’s...

The Gates 0

The Gates

Yes, we made it to The Gates! (and made it back too) Hoards of people from all over the world. Those same people overflowed to the art museums nearby too. The biggest unanswered question revolving around this giant art installation...

speaking gig 0

speaking gig

I took a speaking gig for a summer camp set for the end of July. Rarely do I do that, between 2 jobs and more (2 hour plus commute, single-parenting during weekdays), plus being out of practice and feelin’ a...

scorched souls 0

scorched souls

Having pastored for about 5 years, and not pastoring for about 4 years now, I’ve had some time and distance away from it to come out with 3 observations about church life (in no particular order nor priority, just what...

reconstructive surgery 0

reconstructive surgery

I just finished an hour-long reconstructive surgery — to rebulid the lost blog entries from yesterday’s server crash. I first learned of the crash from goodmanson.com (with whom I was dialoguing about money and church in a comment thread now...

web server crashed, blog entries lost 3

web server crashed, blog entries lost

My web hosting service had a server crash, and it appears that 20-some entries were lost from this blog, as well as recent template changes, and whatever else I might have done on the djchuang.com website during the past month...