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Mom, it’s your birthday and so I thought I’d croon you a little toon. This is perhaps one of my most memorable recordings. And here’s a picture of me mixing the one-cut wonder.

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And when you’re done with that feel free to enjoy this previous birthday song for Mom: Life Begins At 60!

I’m sorta hoping this [...]

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gods-must-be-crazy xs Eddie has a thought-provoking post on localization of the Gospel which Doug has responded to. Eddie is suggesting that the Gospel is localized in ways similar to the way software is localized in different languages and regions. It’s a great metaphor showing how on the surface what seems like a straight-forward transfer of [...]

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just say no to hippos JK has a very laughable meme on his blog on what, who, how and why people laugh at our blogs. I know people laugh at me because of all the geeky Technorati obsessing. And I’m pretty sure people laugh at the lingapotami. Most certainly they laugh because I’m so dang funny. But possibly [...]

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No one says, “My bad” anymore.

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easy tigerThinking that a certain piece of information was public about a certain one of our friends I published something here and then discovered that he would rather not have that information public. So I have pulled that post. If you try to visit there you might get a message like the following: I [...]

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Today I discovered that the notoriously slow Gmail (when used on a dialup or GPRS) can be zipped up by adding the m. extension to the address. So if you connect to http://m.gmail.com you will get your inbox but in a mobile format that is very stripped down and fast. I am using this in [...]

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jeremiah 36 downloadInspired by Jim West and Tim Bulkeley I’ve added a link in the sidebar to the daily PodBible Podcast. Today’s reading was Jeremiah 36. As you can see in the screenshot below, it took me quite a while to download this with our slow dialup connection in Mozambique. In actual fact, it only took about [...]

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around the world in 80 blogs Last weekend I invited readers of this blog and especially those on my blogroll to share a favorite new blog that you have been enjoying recently. The countdown is at 50. Helps us make it all the way around to number 1. Around The World In 80 Blogs. Wikipedia article on [...]

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god says no - bill keane If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. —Dave Barry I’ve been memed with a question about God’s goodness in the [...]

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Thanks to Michael Halcomb for a tip about an article on Exploring Adoption about irregularities in adoptions in Vietnam. Ethica receives 50-80 inquiries a week from adoption triad members in crisis. Over the past 6 years, we have assisted over 8,000 children and families, often advocating for them with the U.S. Department of [...]

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Ben and Daddy on bike ride, originally uploaded by afrikers.

Hanging out in the pine forest road.