Any time I begin to collaborate on documents, I inevitably come up against one of the greatest banes of the desktop publishing world, manually formatted text. This is a particular difficulty with website submissions. In submitted web articles text comes in manually formatted with headers, often with line breaks following to make the text look…
Category: Geek
I’m a geek. I love technology, especially communications technology. So, any time I’m dealing with geeky stuff it’ll show up here. As my geekiness is linked to my pastoral call, however, this stuff will often be found elsewhere.
Using Google Voice as a “home” number
Last month we finally “cut the cord” and rid our house of both cable television and home phone service. We still wanted to have a “home” number to give out to business and acquaintances, however, so we set up a Google Voice number and set it to ring the phones of both my wife and…
A thought on iBooks
I am writing my first book using iBooks author. It's nothing major, just about 50 pages on a presentation concept I call “Idea Painting.” As I continue to research the concept, and do more reading on communication theory, I be adding to the book over time, and issue updates through the iBooks store. Yes, there…
Dear Barnes & Noble
For Father’s Day my family got me a Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight, I love it. I love that I can carry around all of Tolkien and Harry Potter in my pocket. Â I love that I can pick up reading material for my sermon research in seconds. Â I love that my annotations and highlights are available…
Simply the Nook
I received my Father’s Day present a bit early this year. My wife let it slip that she was planning on getting me an eReader as a present, and had to pick the model I wanted. Thanks to some sleuthing I managed to track down a Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light at a local…
The odd-relevance of “hoodie-gate” for the Church
Mark Zuckerberg, who is a rather odd guy (I say that by way of affection, “normal” people annoy me), started Facebook. Â He made millions upon millions of dollars and created a platform where people re-connect and share with one another. Â Yes, it has problems. Â They like to play fast and loose with privacy a good…
