February 2006

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• 02.27.06
  Freedom’s Price   Uncategorized (1)

  I live in freedom, here at home
  But my freedom it wasn’t free
  Your life and heart, your mind and blood,
  Pay freedoms price for me.
  I send my little boxes,
  Packed with love and wrapped with prayer
  Hoping that when they reach you
  Smiles and laughter will light your life
  While you read these odds and ends from one
  Who’s safe at home.
  I [...]

• 02.26.06
  New Challenge   Uncategorized (2)

  Patti Digh has tossed out a real good challenge. If you follow her writing, she carefully crafts a post per week. I visualized her posting process like this. For the next 37 days, however, she is going to just wing it. Do shorter posts, less complete, more single thought and potentially reuse them later for [...]

• 02.24.06
  Thought for the day   Uncategorized (1)

  “If you didn’t know how old you was, how old would you be?”
  –Satchel Paige (1906-1982)

  Who’s Satchel Paige?
  At the age of fifty-nine, Satchel Paige became the oldest player in the major leagues. He is also believed to be one of the best pitchers in baseball. Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was born on July 7, 1906. [...]

• 02.22.06
  Friends   Uncategorized (3)

  Friensdship is a relationship that cannot be bound by time, distance, age, culture, or race. It is one of the truly beautiful things in our world. The best way I can describe friendship is to say it is the sibling of love. Friends have a bond that can endure time, distance, racial differences, cultural challenges, [...]

• 02.20.06
  You could not make this up   Uncategorized (0)

  From Shelley Powers writing at Burningbird comes another wonderful piece of allegory, no, wait…this is real stuff happening… … A community, which now it seems, must absorb the Nine Champions of RSS 2.0, because they have been banished from the round table that was the RSS Advisory Board. A Board [...]

• 02.18.06
  Just don’t be surprised when you get left behind   Uncategorized (0)

  From Hugh at the GapingVoid comes this gem:
  So to Big Media, Madison Avenue, journalists, bloggers and citizens everywhere, I say: If you think this is just a game of bubbles, bandwagons, favoritism and knowing the right people, as opposed to having good ideas and plain old hard work- Fine, go ahead and [...]

• 02.16.06
  Truth   Uncategorized (0)

  “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo Galilei
  Hmmm…Very interesting quote that reminds me of what I do for a living. I manage an IT help desk. People call me, actually they usually call my team, and ask us questions, easy questions…to us. We’re IT [...]

• 02.16.06
  Don’t Wait for Permission to Succeed!   Uncategorized (0)

  Don’t Wait for Permission to Succeed! The Manifesto is the running!
  Check this out. My manifesto is up for vote at ChangeThis. Goto ChangeThis and vote for me! You can vote once per day per computer through March 18, so vote often and tell your friends.
  Thanks!
  Troy

• 02.15.06
  Customer Service Are You Kidding?   Uncategorized (1)

  Like many other idiots people new to the world of hosts and hosting, I thought bigger was better. I thought wrong. After months of endless frustrating on hold phone calls, snotty responses, less than accurate information, with go-evil an unnamed host. I was fed up.
  I decided to change hosts before I [...]

• 02.15.06
  Microsoft Abandons PowerPoint   Uncategorized (0)

  Redmond, Washington February 14th, 2005 (Wacky News Service)
  Bill Gates announced today, that in spite of its popularity, Microsoft (MSFT) would be abandoning PowerPoint. Originally developed by a former Berkeley PhD student, Bob Gaskins and software developer, Dennis Austin at Forethought Software - PowerPoint was launched for the Mac in 1987. Forethought was purchased by Microsoft [...]

• 02.13.06
  Somebody Loves Me   Uncategorized (1)

  There was a certain point in my teen life where I was no longer found entirely repulsive by boys. Having spent so many of my preteen years being teased and bullied by my classmates, I saw this change as both a new beginning, and proof of my self worth. For the first days and weeks [...]

• 02.12.06
  Fire Ants   Uncategorized (2)

  I am not ready for the man eating evil straight from hells door big as a house fire ants. But they are back, I saw one.
  My strategy this year was going to be; soak our entire property in a zillion gallons of concentrated DDT or some equally effective and safe pesticide, and laugh, hysterically as [...]

• 02.10.06
  The only stupid question…   Uncategorized (0)

  I have a very simple theory: the only stupid question is the unasked one. I try to impress this on my students as often as I can. If we don’t ask questions, that’s when miscommunication happens. Answers to questions inform, clarify. They can’t do that, though, if we don’t ask the questions.
  I ask a lot [...]

• 02.09.06
  In Which I Talk About Prayer   Uncategorized (2)

  Don’t be scared. I’m not talking about putting on a black lace mantilla and kneeling on a pied a dieu in some smoky, candlelit chapel, though to be honest, I think I’d rather like that.
  I like ritual. The problem, lately, is that all ritual feels empty. It feels like I’m going through the motions.
  I wrote [...]

• 02.08.06
  Where’s your ladder?   Uncategorized (2)

  From Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People calendar for 2006: It is incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.Where is your [...]

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