OK. Enough.
They’re not insurgents anymore. They’re not rebels. They’re not freedom fighters. They’re not even terrorists. They’re not that good. They are butchers. Butchers. Butchers.
The blood of children is on their hands. Women are their victims. Men strolling on the street are their targets.
They have gone beyond the pale. They are no longer worthy of […]

Teresa and I (and the kids) just came back from a Michael Card concert.
It was sponsored by WorldServe, and featured Pastor Elisha, the leader of something like 2000 house churches in Vietnam.
It’s illegal to for Christians to evangelize in Vietnam, so Pastor Elisha has spent many years in prison - 4 prisons, actually - which […]

Tonight I heard the one of the best definitions of leadership I’ve ever encountered:
“Leadership is the ability to achieve your goals through the efforts of others.”
- Pastor Elisha (a Vietnamese pastor)
It’s perhaps a bit one-sided … and you’d have to be careful that this kind of leadership wouldn’t deteriorate into manipulation, but it’s a […]

Wow - it’s been 11 years since graducation.
Incredible.
SFU is holding an alumni celebration of 40 years of existence … staggeringly young for a university with 20-30 thousand students.

I haven’t been blogging with quite the old pace, mostly due to being busy, but also due to taking some down time in the evenings that I haven’t taken for over 6 months.
But checking my blog, postings, comments, etc. tonight, I found the oddest post. (Visitors can post, but I have to review it before […]

Rastin is blogging, and it’s A Good Thingâ„¢.
At very least, you now have an outlet for those feelings of unrequited love, Rastin.

OK, maybe that’s overstating the case a little.

Teresa took this photo of me, Ethan, Aidan (the youngest) and my dad a month or so ago during Ethan’s 6th birthday party:

Saw this nugget in a comment on Business Week:

Don’t forget the basic formula for success–first, best, or different.

If you’re launching a new product or service, those are good words to remember.

Dave is blogging again.
I guess once you’ve had your first hit, you’re hooked.
I see that, as of 30 minutes ago, he is not at home. Bad boy, cool app.
My only question, Dave, is: why Movable Type? Was it preinstalled or something? Wordpress is clearly superior (ok, I’m somewhat biased) and certainly much cooler.

Wouldn’t you like to have your own store online, with your own products?
No, not the kind of store that is really someone else’s, filled with someone else’s products, that you just advertise and hope somebody somewhere buys something on so you can take a couple nickels of the sale.
Your stuff, your store.
When I get a […]

A couple of days ago, my wife Teresa told our youngest son Aidan that she loved his race car pajamas. She added that she’d like to have pajamas as nice as his.
Today Aidan put on his boots and his jacket, and headed towards the garage. He had his hand on the door when Teresa asked […]

Yahoo! has a story about a man who built up 40,000 volts of static electricity in his clothes …

“We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,”

I wonder if this is one possible […]

I wrote a few weeks ago about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and have since been checking out Scientology a little bit.
Yikes.
This is a deadly, deadly organization that kills its members who want to leave and forces adherents to sign a contract that indicates that Scientology can do whatever it wants to you, at any […]

The hydrangea in my front garden has been beautifully blooming for months.
And fruitfully - bees have been coming by in droves to stock up for the winter.
Here’s one I caught sipping nectar:

It’s amazing how incredibly huge bees’ compound eyes are in proportion to their heads!

My company’s annual conference is on right now (well, it’s actually the last day - we’ve been on for 3 days already) in Seattle.
We’re in the Westin downtown, and I’m on the 31st floor, looking out over Union Lake or Lake Union, whichever comes first. Very nice for the previous 3 days, but today’s a […]

Scott Ocheltree, one of the great people in Premier’s IS department, is adopting a baby from China with his wife.
They (and their two sons) are leaving for China in the next couple of days to spend two weeks, pick up Kai, and bring him home.
Wow - I’ve talked to Scott about it a bit, and […]

It’s a sobering experience to see the faces, names, and ages of the US Army men and women who have been killed in Iraq.
Makeshift bombs
A phrase that repeats itself again and again and again is “makeshift bomb.” Killed by a makeshift bomb. Killed when his vehicle ran over a makeshift bomb. Died of injuries sustained […]

When those guys at Ars Technica stress-test something, they really, really, really stress-test it.
(They took an iPod Nano and did unmentionable things to it.)
PS 1: It’s amazing what the Nano can withstand.
PS 2: That’s two Seinfeld references in two posts. Uh oh.

I picked up a couple CDs at House of James yesterday, one of which is a really, really, really good album, Starfield.
It’s a debut album; the group’s also called Starfield. They’re Canadian, and some of their music is similar to Kutless. It’s basically Christian rock with some softer stuff, some hard beats, and a lot […]

This camera is looking very good.
Teresa is really looking for something a little better than our Sony DSC W1, which is pretty good at 5 MP, 3X optical zoom, and fairly high-quality lense, etc.
But the 10X optical zoom sounds very, very nice (as do the 6 megapixels) on the Coolpix S4. I’m noticing a […]