Chad Vader S1 Ep1: A Galaxy Not So Far Away
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Life Almost Entirely Off the Grid
In 1998, a year after my first mission trip to Brazil, my ministry program at Harding University went to Brazil on an "International Campaign".  One classmate didn't make it to orientation and also had to go to Brazil a couple of days after the group arrived.  We were in downtown Belo Horizonte walking back to the church building after lunch when we met up with him.  He was grinning from ear to ear and looking up at the buildings.  I told him it was good to see him, and he continued grinning and looking around. "Wow.  I didn't know there'd be all these buildings here.  This is a city!  I thought we

Thanksgiving 2009
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Android Could Have a Problem
Originally Published on the Igneous Quill Xanga blog. Mike Elgan thinks Android could fail.  I'm afraid he might be right. When the iPhone first went on sale back in 2007 it made an enormous impact on the smartphone market.  Really, it took "smartphones" mainstream.  Up until it came out, what we now call smartphones were devices primarily for business people and geeks.  Rank-and-file mobile subscribers were content to talk and text with dinky flip

"Go" is a Go
I'm pretty close to being a complete n00b with programming, despite the year or so of contact I've had with Python, Ruby and Bash.  I like programming, but haven't been able to spend much time on it.  When I heard about Google's new "Go" programming language I decided that despite my inexperience (or perhaps because of it), I needed to check it out. Since I don't believe I'm knowledgeable enough about programming to give a full review, I'll just say this: I like it.  Also, it isn't apparently intended as a language for Android or the Chrome OS.  It's being offered as a systems programming language, intended more for the backe