Social Networks for the life of the world
An investigative reporter at Gizmodo has found the FBI director’s twitter account. He’s using the pseudonym Reinhold Niebuhr. Pastor Niebuhr was a twentieth-century theologian and ethicist. Among his many books is The Irony of American History, analyzing how USA exceptionalism is a tremendous temptation to arrogance and contains the seeds of its own destruction. That … Read more
Sermon Text: Matthew 17:1-9 The Transfiguration of Jesus Grace to you, and peace, from God our creator and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen Mountaintop experiences. We’ve all had them. I invite you to think about your personal mountaintop experiences. They could be anything. Maybe yours was something huge and visible and shared like a wedding … Read more
Texts Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 1Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. 3“O my … Read more
This post is dedicated to everybody who’s ever worked in tech support. When a packet hits a pocket. http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Some_More_Tech_Support http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Support-Should-Never-Be-Necessary http://thedailywtf.com/articles/radio-wtf-presents-quantity-of-service http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Its-the-Only-Way-to-be-Sure http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please http://www.techtales.com/techroom.php Got any more? Please put them in the comments.
Text Matthew 4:12-23 12Now when Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; 13and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15“The land of Zebulun and the land … Read more
Text: John 1:29-42 29The next day [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.’ 31I myself did not know … Read more
MySQL’s FULLTEXT search feature works best when it’s used on a large corpus of text. That is, for best results you need many rows. When the text corpus is too small, full text searching often returns strange results: the indexing process tries to work out common words. If the amount of text being indexed is … Read more