I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
Smittie Every Saturday morning I have breakfast with a friend of mine. We usually end up hanging out together most of the day. We go to various restaurants throughout Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz has some great offerings. This morning we went to Ideal Bar & Grill, mostly because they are currently running a breakfast special. You … Read more
March of the Penguins It was family movie night. Somehow, March of the Penguins ended up at my house. I don’t know how but it did. In a word, zzzzZZZZ. March of the Penguins is a National Geographic travelogue on par with Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Actually, Wild Kingdom had better scripting, March of … Read more
Well, I’m no Guy Kawasaki but I have managed to collect two photos in my Flickr group. Well, OK, one if you insist on not counting me. I made the URL to the group a little easier with a new feature they just implemented. It is now http://www.flickr.com/groups/smittiesramblingreaders/. Go put your mug up there. No … Read more
My hard drive died on Friday. Friday morning I was using my PowerBook for email and web while waiting for my tower to do work. Suddenly it started making this click, click, click sound. It didn’t sound at all good so I shut the thing down. I was going that direction anyway so I decided … Read more
I’m A Bad Boy: Google had sent me an email explaining that my account was disabled and why. It landed in my JUNK folder which is why I didn’t see it until a day or so later. The Evangelicals: If you read Dan Kimball’s article that was linked in ‘The Evangelicals’ then you’ll probably want … Read more
Guy Kawasaki is touting a new application called FilmLoop. The company developing FilmLoop is one of Garage.com’s latest children. Guy Kawasaki is one of their directors. Guy wants FilmLoop to be successful. FilmLoop is an interesting concept but, in my opinion, flawed in its implementation on one major point and one related minor point. FilmLoop … Read more
You’ll notice that the Google AdSense section of my sidebar has been removed. That is because I’m a bad boy. It should have been obvious. It started to dawn on me this weekend. It is interesting that Google sorted out what I was doing even as I was figuring out that what I was doing … Read more
My daughter went off to camp for the weekend yesterday. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not glad to see her gone, not in the least. However, I know that she have a great time. I also know that she be glad to be out and away from home for a few days. I’m glad … Read more
I have been involved recently with a number of people who are, in one form or another, involved in ministry. Numerous discussions about the church, Christians, Christ, non-Christians, evangelism and sundry related issues. Recurrent in these conversations is the concept of evangelism. In most case, evangelism means “telling others about Christ,” at least in the … Read more
I think we seldom stop to think through, how does anyone make money on the web. Typically, we think of the web as free information, freely distributed. Yahoo, Google, flickr, MySpace – we tend to think of all of these as free services. Yet, there are large corporations behind some of them and there are … Read more