I watched this today. The social networking phenomena continues to grow. This is a very interesting online, group study, social networked Bible tool. What do you think?
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A new mobile pda device
I recently switched from a Palm OS Treo 650 to a Windows Mobile 6 device. I’m using a t-Mobile Wing. I’m enjoying grafiti again which is good since I have trouble typing on the Wing’s slide-out keyboard.
Things I like about Windows Mobile 6:
• Outlook Mobile. I live in Outlook. I can live comfortably in Outlook Mobile.
• Today screen.
• Opera mobile browser. Faster than IE mobile and much better than the Palm browser.
• Multi-tasking. I can sync while on a phone call.
Things I don’t like:
• Having to use menus for so many functions. Palm’s user interface is cleaner. Key functions are exposed through buttons on screen rather than nested in menus.
• Having no “silence” button. As one who moves in and out of meetings, an easy way to go silent is great.
• Memory management. Why can’t we have more than 64 mb of main memory? I have a 2 gb micro-SD card, but many programs must be installed in main memory. Email storage is in main memory (attachments can be directed to the storage card).
Program’s I’ve added:
• Google maps
• Delta flights tool
• Opera browser
• Infosafe (password store)
• Pocket e-Sword (free but no NIV, must be loaded into main memory)
• Pocket Bible (not free but has NIV, I’m using KJV for trial period)
I tried Microsoft Onenote. I love it on my PC, but the mobile version hides everything in menus. I found it clumsy to use. I use Word Mobile to take notes. 🙁 The good news is that with grafiti, I can keep up with a speaker while taking notes. I could never thumb fast enough on my Treo.
What Windows Mobile 6 programs do you like?
Kay’s Salwar Kameez
Kochumol helped Kay purchase a salwar kameez. After unsuccessfully looking around department stores and clothing kiosks, Kay purchased cloth and had a tailor make her dress. It’s a combination of loose-fitting trousers (salwar) with a long tunic or shirt (kameez). It’s accented with a long silk scarf worn around the neck and down the back. Very beautiful. It’s Kay, so of course it’s red! How do I know this stuff? Wikipedia!
Lucy
Granddaughter Lucy was diagnosed with meningitis while we were in India. It was probably bacterial (the really nasty kind). She’s home from the hospital and doing well. Praise God with us for her healthy recovery. Praise God for giving doctors wisdom to treat her. Praise God for giving parents Daniel and Michelle the grace and faith to walk through this time. Thank all of you who held them close to the throne of mercy.
“You were born into a world at war, and you will live all your days in the midst of a great battle, involving all the forces of heaven and hell played out here on earth. … Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days, we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90 percent of what is happening around us and to us. It will be hard to believe that God’s intentions toward us are
life abundant.”
– John Eldredge, Waking the Dead
Paul and Lifesong from India
I’m sitting in India for the first time in my life. Home to 1 billion people. We are on the outskirts of Bangalore in a small, local hotel. Looking out my window, India looks like Nigeria. Building construction is very similar. Walls around property. People walking everywhere. Cars and buses on the roads. It smells the same – kind of smoky from burning trash and auto fumes. It sounds the same – cars honking as they drive, kind of like saying “I’m here. Don’t
move over into my space.”
The sun comes up very early. I woke up at 5:18 to a bright sky and thought it was 8 am. Of course, it is 8 am in Bangkok where I woke up yesterday morning! India is 2 ½ hours different in time zones. It’s one of those countries that does a half-hour adjustment so the entire country can be on the same time zone.
I’m sitting here in the cool of the morning reading Paul’s loving letter to the Philippians and listening to Casting Crowns sing Lifesong. What a powerful combination!
Yes, and I will continue to rejoice for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. [1:19-20]
May the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you
For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. [1:21-23]</font
Let my lifesong sing to you.
Let my lifesong sing to you.
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to you.
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. … For it has been granted to you on behalf o Christ no only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him … [1:27-29]
Lord I give my life
a living sacrifice
To reach a world in need
To be your hands and feet.
So May the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you.
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead. [3:10-11]
Let my lifesong sing to you.
Let my lifesong sing to you.
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to you.
Amen! So be it!