Yesterday some despicable person 1 decided it would be a wonderful idea to blow up the NAACP chapter office in Colorado Spring, Colorado. Thankfully, their homemade explosive didn’t work as it was intended. The building suffered only minor damage, and no one was hurt or killed in the incident. The story was slow to reach…
Month: January 2015
My Goal – Constructive Blogging
Thus far, I am enjoying this new discipline of blogging something every day. Blogging can be a difficult practice to do well, and I’m committed to making Painfully Hopeful a valuable destination for blog readers. As I begin this journey I want to make to myself regarding the nature of Painfully Hopeful. It would be…
Own a bit of the paradigm shift – Some thoughts on ownCloud
For Christmas of 2013 I received a Raspberry Pi. I enjoyed setting up the computer, and even configured a lite MineCraft server for my son. Aside from that, however, the only other use my Pi got was as an AirPrint server. I knew it could be much more, and lined up some projects in my…
Typed, Markdown Zen
Earlier this year I wrote a post on an amazing Markdown1 editor for iOS called Editorial. Since I’ve taken up Editorial on my iPad and iPhone I’ve been looking for an editor of comparable quality on my Mac. There are several popular Markdown editors on the Mac App Store, and I’ve purchased two of the…
A Pastoral End to Vacation
Given that I’m a pastor, I think I’ll reserve my Sunday blog entries to talk about “all things pastor.” At least, as I see them. Today was an interesting Sunday in several ways. First, I was technically “on vacation.” This meant I got to sleep in a bit and not spend the early Sunday hours…
Approaching Lightroom
Last Spring Apple announced the expected, and yet altogether depressing, demise of the incredible Aperture. This photo organizing and post-processing application was one of the first purchases I made after begin given my first DSLR. I love it’s simplicity, clean lay-out, and speed. Aperture will probably work for another year or so before it becomes…
