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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The “disgrunted world citizen” from Full Throttle & an Empty Gas Tank has produced the eighteenth Lutheran Carnival. The post borrows heavily from White Zombie song titles. I get a little grief from submitting my entry in the third person, but hey, I was just following instructions.:grin: I do get called a “defensive lineman,” [...]
Another three-week tour of duty begins Saturday, after I get a couple of games in on the final week of basketball. That seemed to go fast.
I’ve booked two weeks in Fort Smith, AR. I don’t have too many memories of the city as I was always waking up to go on fracturing jobs at 4am [...]
GetReligion and other blogs are fervently discussing the LA Times report (link dead) that DNA evidence may contradict Mormon scripture.
The use of science to refute religion to me seems dicey at best, especially when done by Jews and Christians.
Take the Biblical story of creation for example. Genesis 1 details a six-day creation. Scholars have taken [...]
