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Clear Heads Take Time :: Welcome Back
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It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?
It’s been a good while, though…at least for me, it has. At one point, I was writing for this blog, Open House’s blog, and another side blog I had started. I thought writing was my thing. I thought if something was your thing, you couldn’t really wear it out.
You can’t over-do your passion, right?
Turns out, you can tell yourself one story, fully believe it, but have a real and true sub-plot flowing underneath it all. That was me. I love writing and have been at Open House from the time I took my much-needed break from Faith in the Frameworks. I have a passion for the crafted word. I love being provoked to think deeper than the surface and pushed to see God at work all around me.
I just let it consume me. Read More→
Revisiting Google Buzz :: How’s Your Experience Been?
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I found myself in the midst of a couple conversations about Google Buzz today and thought that my post on the subject could use a revisit. Hop over and read it if you haven’t already, and then let me tell you what I’ve encountered. Read More→
All the Buzz…or Not :: Google’s Feeble Attempt at Social Media
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Let me make something perfectly clear to start this post; I am a big fan of Google. Scratch that, I’m a huge fan. Other than getting booted unfairly from their AdSense program, I’ve been happily using many of Google’s free and useful web applications for a couple years, now. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Contacts, Google Reader, Google Feedburner, Google’s Picasa and most important, Google’s peerless search engine have all been part of my daily routine for some time, now. I also own a Palm Pre, which takes advantage of all these, wirelessly updating and syncing my personal data for me while I’m on the go. Trust me, if there is a Google fan, it’s me! I even keep myself updated on what’s going on with their mobile operating system, Android, just because I love their innovative style.
I’m creating this post using Google Chrome, their most-impressive, sleek, and super-fast web browser.
I love Google. I really do.
Easily one of the largest and most profitable businesses in the world, Google has little to fret about. Their search engine dwarfs all others in usage numbers. Their web apps are used by millions. Their Google-branded phones are selling like hotcakes with thousands of developers writing apps for them. All said and done, Google is doing very well.
Enter Buzz, Google’s newest creation. ”Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
Start conversations about the things you find interesting.” This is the title statement at the top of the page at google.com/buzz. All the millions of Gmail users around the world will be redirected to this site on their very next trip to their inboxes and will be confronted with Google’s latest “innovation.” Read More→
The First Snow of 2010 :: Do You Secretly Crave a Break?
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As I was slipping and sliding my way around town today, I had to marvel at the epic nature of the snow and ice storm. It rolls in, riding high on the tidal wave of hype, hysteria, and proportion-less reaction and is met squarely with reality, rational thought, and realistic retreat. Sometimes it lives up to the buildup and really ruins the regular rhythm our lives for a short time, but most of the time we all know (in this part of the country, anyway) it will be a mild hindrance and slight removal from the mundane, day-to-day monotony.
I saw hundreds of status updates, tweets and comments on the both of them yesterday, all alluding to the forthcoming snow. Some were hoping for a huge blizzard while others were petitioning for the precipitation to miss its mark, but everyone was buzzing about the impending snow.
But why? We don’t get nearly excited about the rain. Read More→
My Smartphone Stole My Brain:: Is That An Advertised Feature?
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I assumed that, by possessing the title “smartphone,” this little device would make me smarter. More efficient, agile, and professional… yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’ll be able to do more, do it quicker, and do it better than before. And, I suppose, those things are very true. I can check my email in my car, update my Facebook status while waiting for my lunch, be in the middle of a text conversation, checking directions with my Google Maps, and organizing my life one little calendar box at a time in the bathroom. (Well, I don’t do that too often!)
My point is this: this little device can really accomplish tons of work right from my palm, just not from my brain.
My wife asked me a simple question the other night. I can’t recall the question, (remember, my phone stole my brain!) but I know it was something simple such as, “What was the guy’s name that played so-and-so in such-and-such movie?” Now, I usually pride myself on knowing things like this. I can pinpoint actors in movies and rack my brain to figure out where it was I saw them last. I only need a few moments to kick my brain in gear.
On this occasion, though, I gave it a cursory 10-second thought and then made the move that stopped me in my tracks. I reached for my smartphone. Ten seconds. I couldn’t (or just didn’t want to try hard enough to) think of the name. I just couldn’t seem to pull it from the recesses of my brain. It was too hard. It just took too long. I didn’t want to wait anymore. Read More→
