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Archive for February, 2006

Feet-Mail?
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

CNet News reports that Microsoft’s research department is working on a program that will use a foot controller to check email.
The software maker’s research unit has developed a prototype e-mail program in which cubicle dwellers can wade through e-mail and delete messages using their feet. The StompMail program uses a standard dance pad, such as [...]

I teach internally written job workflow and tracking software. Business development people write proposals with one part of the program, and operations people use information from the proposals to verify the job design, dispatch the appropriate chemicals, people, and equipment to location, create invoices, and collect job results. Teaching requires not only aptitude in instruction [...]

Try Taking Something Up for Lent
Monday, February 27th, 2006

Some church practices can be instructive. When the practices are made compulsory by man’s rule, however, we sola scriptura folks shy away from them in order to demonstrate that these practices aren’t necessary for salvation. Pastor Thomas Chryst answers some common questions about Lutherans and Lent in his church’s monthly newsletter. Pastor Chryst in this [...]

HT: taynar
The Dallas Star-Telegram, in a column by Dave Lieber “The Watchdog”, reports (link dead) that this latest 2-cent increase on first-class stamps are not to subsidize an unprofitable U.S. Postal Service but instead being used to create a $3 billion escrow account that Congress can spend how it likes.
The Postal Service ended 2005 with [...]

Bethel Lutheran Church, Fort Smith
Sunday, February 26th, 2006

A slow Sunday morning at the office allowed me to visit Bethel Lutheran Church in Fort Smith. It was the only LCMS church in the area to have a completed web site.
The Bible study was on Amos 4-5. The elder who taught often deviated, but he made good points doing so.
A vicar from another congregation [...]