Category: Status

Boom Goes the Power

The transformer on the powerline outside our house just exploded (second time in a week).  I didn’t do it.  I swear.

Anyway, at least it’s in the 50’s with bright sunshine today.  Not a bad day to be forced outside to get some work done in the books.

I have about 25 books piled up beside my desk that I <strike>want</strike> need to read.  I also have a quiz from last week that I need to grade.  And I have about 1200 feed items that I need to pour through in my feed reader (Linux’s Liferea… thank God I keep an offline feed reader).  And, I have a major paper that I’m trying to write to claim that the Deuteronomistic History was written very late (close to the Maccabean period) by an pro-prophetic agency (not pro-monarchical or pro-priestly).  Fun stuff.

How am I blogging this you ask?  Linux’s cleverly titled “Drivel” blogging program.  I do most of my blogging here because it’s a clean and clear interface.  If you run Ubuntu (or any Gnome distro), I highly recommend.

Gosh, I want to check my email.  Oh wait… I have a smart phone!

UPDATE:  Lights are back on.  A squirrel was fried on top of the transformer, however.  Poor squirrel.

New Feed Address

Apologies to all, but with the move to a hosted WordPress blog, I’m also consolidating and changing my feeds.

So, the feed address you need to use is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/samharrelson/GZMU

For those of you who don’t read feeds, for shame!  Try Google Reader, Newsgator, FeedDemon, Bloglines or any of the dozens of readers out there.  You can even subscribe to feeds on your personalized Google homepage, your Netvibes page or your My Yahoo page.  There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be using RSS!  It will change your life – trust me.

Thanks for your cooperation in switching over!

Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog Podcast

Fraser does a great podcast show out of the UK and interviewed me on my online marketing thoughts earlier this week…

In this interview I had a great chat with Sam Harrelson from Cost Per News about many aspects of affiliate marketing and more. I’ll let the related links part give you an idea of what we talked about.

Interview with Sam Harrelson – Cost Per News – Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Mysterious Universe

I listen to a lot of podcats. I’ve done a lot of podcasts as well. I’m always getting asked which marketing podcasts I listen to. My answer is none. They all suck (well, except for Fraser’s and Shawn’s). I need to give WebMasterRadio a try again, I guess.

But, I do love Mysterious Universe. I’ve been listening since last summer and the show only gets better each week. Great stuff and very well produced. If you haven’t listened, give it a go. It’s sort of a Coast-to-Coast meets the BBC…

It’s well worth the wait though as we cover USOs, forests on Mars, and of-course, an alleged interview transcript with a Reptilian humanoid.

Mysterious Universe

This is What the Kingdom of God Looks Like…

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This is just an amazing picture and story.

Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, Indonesia have four babies in their care who normally wouldn’t get along. A pair of baby orangutans and a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs both endangered species were rejected by their mothers, and are being raised in the hospital’s nursery, where they became inseparable friends. In the wild, tigers eat orangutans.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Unlikely Friends.

I’ve Unleashed Waynebuntu

I’ve converted my wife, my mother in law, potentially a Lutheran priest and now Wayne Porter.  Ubuntu will never be the same again after Wayne gets through with it.  What have I done?

I need to send him a hat 🙂

My old IBM Thinkpad X40 (story below) now sports this O/S and it screams like a bat out of hell (you might try Ubuntu 6.06 if your PC is rather dated)….so far so good…. I feel like I have been unplugged from the matrix and spat out into a giant toilet bowel of jelly slime…now I wonder if it can push Second Life? Doubt it. I do feel some machinima widgets coming on though.

Opinions From My Space

It Don’t Get Easy

I don’t even feel like writing today at CostPerNews.

It’s not burn out or disillusionment… it’s just my own reservations about the place becoming something other than a blog. Is it already too late? I’m having to watch my tongue there and keep on the correct side of the line.

Is there room for honesty when you have paid placements, or do the people paying (and reading) want honesty?

I’m guessing they do since they are consciously reading a blog and not Business Week or Revenue.

Still… it doesn’t get any easier as time goes on.

Waynebuntu

Wayne is thinking of switching one of his boxes over to Ubuntu.

What are you waiting for, Wayne?? Even Anna uses it and seems to like it. At least her laptop is much quicker than it ever was with XP and she can do (just about) anything with it that she could do with Windows. Most of all, it’s fun to watch her play with tarballs, sudo apt-gets and compilers.

That’s what technology is for… playing.

And when did your blog become a splog? Geez, man. 🙂

Finishing Paper on Deuteronomistic History

Specifically on the importance of 2 Kings in the DH.  Read up on chapters 22 and 23 of 2 Kings if you haven’t done that in a while.  Fascinating stuff…

Deuteronomist – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

King Hezekiah centralised the religion and destroyed places and objects of worship that were outside of the control of the Jerusalem Temple and its priesthood. The Assyrian empire invaded Judah shortly after Hezekiah died, and gained suzerainty. Subsequent kings of Judah, owing allegiance to the Assyrians, restored the places and objects of worship outside the temple. However, Hezekiah’s great grandson Josiah instituted a new reform.