It was a remarkable day. We took the Aspen Team and speakers out to dinner then to Starbucks for more great conversation. My brain hurts after 12 hours with Mel McGowan, Will Mancini, Jim Sheppard, Bill & Jim Couchenour, Brad Eisenmann, and pastor Denny Wilson. I got back to the hotel around ...

I’ve always tried to avoid trite Christian sayings like, “Christians aren’t perfect…just forgiven” or, “Be ye fishers of men. You catch ‘em; He’ll clean ‘em.â€� Yet after 30 years of walking with Christ, I still struggle to explain the all encompassing impact of...

With President George Bush leaving office, it’s important for Israel supporters to take a minute and thank the President. History will no doubt show that he was among the greatest of friends to the Jewish state. After the tragic 9-11 terror attack, Bush declared a war on terror, and unlike his...

Knowledge Management using Mind Maps In these days of information overload, the compact way of representing ideas that is embodied in Mind Mapping is essential. You can summarize a huge amount of information in a very compact space. For us to be able to cope, we need efficient knowledge generation, ...

we’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over. seeing people print their passive-aggressive flow charts off the internet makes our resident nerd, eric, sentimental for simpler times....

Every semester I get a handful of students who have settled on the idea that the more big words they use, the better. Regardless of whether they know what those words mean or not. So I get papers elucidating the patriarchal configuration of the social arrangement, rather than telling me about male-d...

Yes. Velu bhai is coming to town. While living in Thanjavur jilla, I often heard people constantly use the word 'pisuru padaama' to describe other people's speech capabilities. It was not uncommon to find this adjective being used in school oratory competitions, social gatherings, and while introduc...

This morning I was reading Colossians 4, and saw this: 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I sh...

I've recently discovered a blog called if you see the dhamma ... written by Joseiem, which I've really enjoyed reading, and commenting on. I thought I'd just lift a set of replies I posted to Joseiem's comments. I've used the title of this post to highlight what I'm trying to point at, not to charac...

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD There's simply no question that the beauty of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (above) can only truly be appreciated after a winding drive down from Kailua Kona (or Hilo, for those who love the rain), but for folks without weeks on end to spare waiting to see lav...