Book reviews now available!

image of stack of booksOne of the things that I enjoy doing on my blog and elsewhere is reading and writing reviews. I have done a few reviews on Quawkle, mainly hardware and software reviews, but I would also like to write some book reviews.

Recently, I changed my daily routine to allow me to wake up early in the morning so I could devote some time to reading.

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Daily Bible reading plans for 2009

image of guy reading Bib;e
I was up early this morning and found this website while reading Justin Taylor’s blog. From it, you can setup your Bible reading plan to view:

  • from a webpage
  • in an RSS reader where each day the text of the reading would appear in an RSS feed
  • via email where the text of each day’s reading would be delivered to your email
  • you can also download an .ics
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Imation Shutters N.D. Floppy Disk Plant

Do they still make these???

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ― Imation, which makes data-storage products, announced last year that it would phase out the Wahpeton plant’s nearly 390 jobs by mid-2009 as part of a companywide restructuring.

Imation Corp. has shuttered its floppy diskette plant in Wahpeton and will transfer ownership of its buildings to the city this week, its spokesman says.

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The best lessons of 2008

2008 light drawing imageAs the year comes near to a close, I am reflecting on the things that I am most thankful for. To use the proverbial expression, “…drinking from a firehose…” it is difficult to cull my list to just a couple of items. However, the exercise of summarizing the year to just a few bullet points helps me focus on the essence of what I learned from the past year that I can carry with me to the coming one. → Read the rest

Hopeful Post-Christmas Melancholy: Desiring God

Desiring God blog reposted this entry from last year. It was written by Jon Bloom and gives great perspective on post-Christmas emotions.

Each year Christmas night finds members of my family feeling some melancholy. After weeks of anticipation, the Christmas celebrations have flashed by us and are suddenly gone. And we’re left standing, watching the Christmas taillights and music fade into the night.

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