The blog over at A Boomer in the Pew is giving away an Calfskin ESV Study Bible:
Welcome New Visitors!  We are celebrating our first birthday, here at the Boomer in the Pew blog!  To celebrate, we are giving away a brand new calfskin version of the ESV Study Bible! 

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Dave on February 26th, 2009

A Steady but Riveting Story by a Top Shelf Author
I ordered Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River from Amazon’s Marketplace after reading a brief review by John Piper in his blog. I wasn’t sure how I would enjoy the story which seems to follow a rather methodically pace. What keeps the reader attached is the [...]

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Dave on February 24th, 2009

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Dave on February 22nd, 2009

I have all but disappeared from Twitter, Facebook and Quawkle.com – must be a social networking sabbatical I am on this week! #

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Some good thoughts from The Simple Dollar blog:
A few weeks ago, a nice reader named Nicole introduced me to the concept of a gratitude journal:
Have you ever written about a gratitude journal? It’s something I’ve started doing and it’s really helped me figure out what is important in my life. It’s easy. Each day you [...]

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Dave on February 16th, 2009

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Dave on February 15th, 2009

Spending lunch hour at Arby’s while waiting for new tires installed on Caravan. Another big expense! (Tires not the Arby’s lunch) #
Loving the Keurig coffee brewer. Dark Magic is my favorite. We have decided to buy nothing but the bold coffees for K-cups. #
Annoying Russian speaking guy on cell phone at Starbucks. [...]

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Good thoughts from Matt Perman’s blog, What’s Best Next
You wouldn’t take the trash out every time you throw something away. Likewise, don’t check your email every time something new comes in. Best of all, shut it down between those times if possible, or at least minimize the window and turn off the bell.
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Dave on February 11th, 2009

Not your ordinary iPhone “How to” iPhone book
I read the iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G by David Pogue and it served as a “user guide” to most things iPhone. I recently bought Andy Ihnatko’s 2nd Edition of iPhone Fully Loaded expecting it to be a tool to fill in some missing holes [...]

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Dave on February 10th, 2009

In trying to figure out a WordPress 2.7 Press This error I was getting when selecting text prior to using the 2.7 bookmarklet, I kept getting an error. A little web surfing via Google found this helpful forum post…
When trying to use the pressthis tool I get the error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode [...]

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