Overall i don't think this is a terrible book, and it may just be because i have run into several X type people and heard some of the arguments before that i did not find this book engaging. Also truth be know i didn't care for the corrupt book he used as the "Bible" to present the arguments. And the whole line on page 185 "No resurrection appearances in the original manuscripts."  The truth is we don't have any of the originals as far as i know. We have copies of copies of copies from the originals, yet to my knowledge nobody has a extant original writing of any of the books of the Bible.

I will give the author respect for the research that he has done. There was allot on both X and Y's part and that is a plus for this book. Another things is that Mr. Foster did not write in a style of "this is what i think and that's it", he pulls from other individuals for each position being represented.

I could just be to stuck in my ways, however i felt that i gave the company that supplied the book an agreement that i would read it all the way and give a review, and so i have. I just realized that i need to be a little better on the books i pick. :-D

Till next time, carry on.

And here is an update, it's late in the video.

And the harvest.

This is not something that will happen in one season so i don't expect to have a pineapple here soon. This is just something fun to do with the kids. We also have several plants out in our growing station that Simon and i built. It was something just fun to do so we did it.

I am planing on doing some timelapse photos with some of the plants we have going this year. I just am waiting for the power adapter for my camera to show up. Using gphoto and a cron job i should be able to get this done.

I wanted to note that the parent plant was 8 1/2 inches tall. So let's see how big junior grows.

sudo apt-get install mbr

if the package got installed use following to write the MBR.

sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda

I did not need to use this however so your mileage may vary.

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Prerequisites:

• dd
• qemu
• a DOS floppy image, e.g. balder10.img

Procedure (assumptions for this description: balder10.img is in CWD, stick appears as /dev/sdc):

• Insert memory stick (Caution: all data on this stick will be destroyed)
• Find out device name (e.g. /dev/sdc)
• Make sure it's not mounted (check with mount command)
• Clear the MBR:
  
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1012 count=2
• Boot qemu:
  
  qemu -curses -boot a -fda ./balder10.img -hda /dev/sdc
  The -curses option will make it run in text mode.
  (This way you can run qemu easily eg. over an ssh connection.)
• Answer all questions with their default values
• At the A:\> prompt:
  
  fdisk
  (create a bootable, primary DOS partition)
• Stop qemu
• Remove memory stick and re-insert it.
• Make sure it's still /dev/sdc, otherwise use new name in the next steps.
• Make sure again that it is not mounted.
• Boot qemu:
  
  qemu -curses -boot a -fda ./balder10.img -hda /dev/sdc
• At the A:\> prompt:
  
  format c: /s
• At the A:\> prompt:
  
  xcopy a: c: /n /e
• Stop qemu

Done! Now you can mount the stick again and copy any required utilities on it ...

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Once there, select the capture view by typing the tab key. You’ll get the next screen:

With the arrow keys select the column Capture and set it to the CAPTUR mode with the space key as in the screenshot. Adjust the recording volume with the arrow keys. You can also set it up with the gnome volume control panel going to the capture tab.

Recording sound to an mp3 file

You’ll need the lame mp3 encoder. Install it by doing

Recording sound to an ogg file

You’ll need the oggenc (the ogg encoder). Install it by doing

sudo yum install vorbis-tools

Type the following command

arecord -f cd -t raw | oggenc – -r -o out.ogg

And you’ll get your sound recorded to an ogg file. Take into account that we record directly to a compressed file, so there’s nothing in between, so you can record for hours saving an incredible amount of hard disk space.

I have had some clients have issues with their systems, so that has taken some of my time as well. I am giving about an hour a night working on some new software. I don't have much time to get into any major projects, so the few minutes i pick one feature and try to implement it. Sometimes it works, many times it doesn't, so i have to pick it up some other night.

Something i have noticed in talking with people is how lazy those that call themselves "Christian" really are. They know more about what's on some tv show then they do about the Bible. Ask them a question about scripture and they have no idea what you are talking about. You have to stick to the Easter/Christmas stories in order to talk Biblically with them. It's so pathetic. Something i read in the book mentioned above. I am putting it here. The software i am working on is my reference app. I write my notes in my notebook or i put them in reference. As soon as i get printing i will put more into it. I like to keep a physical copy. I have been using computers long enough to know not to trust them. :-D

All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet. It may do for other countries and other governments to talk about the State supporting religion. Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion which must support the State.

And never more loudly than at this moment have these institutions of ours called for such support.... Who does not perceive in all these circumstances that our country is threatened, more seriously than it ever has been before, with that moral deterioration, which has been the unfailing precursor of political downfall? And who is so bold a believer in any system of human checks and balances as to imagine, that dangers can be effectively counteracted or averted in any other way, than by bringing the mighty moral and religious influences of the Bible to bear in our defence.

It's more than just the Christians being lazy. I think there are many other people that are lazy as well. There are things that will require allot of the American and to many of them have become so "entitled" to what they think they deserve that they will selfishly  watch their country be destroyed than to give up what they can to see it be preserved. Now this is not everyone, just to many people. Heck when 1/3rd of US. Wages and Salaries are payouts from the government, it is a big sign that things are going wrong. Another sad fact is that most people don't even know about the kind of government that America was founded as. Just so you know it's a Constitutional Republic, or some say a Representative Republic. So many people run around saying we are a Democracy, which is sad. I guess what Hitler said is true, Tell a lie often enough, loud enough, and long enough, and people will believe you.

And people have taken this Democracy  hook, line, and sinker. My personal belief is that man removed God's Word from being the text book of America.  Dr. Benjamin Rush had this to say about removing the Bible:

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism

Don't look for the Church to help. There are so many men that the building they are in is just a temple to themselves ( I call them Whore houses), and they wouldn't know the True Word of God if it hit them in the head. They like to scratch ears these days(II Timothy 4:3). I have talked with some that are seeking the Truth, yet so many are not. Something i was telling someone else the other day. Many people want God on their terms, and they think He has agreed with them. However you just need to open up your KJB and realize it's His terms, period.

Carry on!

This book presents a big gallon or two of  milk(Hebrews 5:12-14). David Platt has presented a way for Christians to live and asks for only a year. This is good to see a church with a minister preaching to their people to forgo living for themselves and live for a eternal purpose. However to request people to do it only for a year is a joke to me. Now i know some would be thinking, "Ed really come on once these new recruits live this way for a year, they will be hooked and they will keep going" but that's the milk. Instruct them to live the life for the rest of theirs. (John 12:25-26) We don't need a bunch of short term thinking recruits. Either live the life or just live and enjoy this season (Hebrews 11:25). Because if you really live the life of a follower of Christ, it will be very different. I would like to say it will be hard, but that is not really true. See when we are weak Christ gives us strength (Acts 3:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Phillippians 4:13, Colossians 1:11,  Hebrews 11:34), yet there are times that we find it hard to stay on the straight and narrow (Matthew 7:14). The message needs to be clear and honest. Stop watering it down and just tell it like it really is, and should be.

And you don't need to sell everything to follow Christ. If you did that then you would be as homeless as the people you should be helping. Just jettison the things that you don't need for day to day survival and put the money to better use. Some people need to burn the stuff they don't need or as a follower of Christ, have in the first place (Acts 19:19). P.S. Don't hock it on Amazon, or throw it away, if you don't need it you should not be passing it to others even for a penny.

The usage of scripture without the reference inline to where you can find the passage was annoying. But then again many of the people that claim to be "Christians" probably don't read or own a Bible.  How sad is that. However they could own something they call a Bible, but is nothing more than a perversion of the Word of God. And they don't even know it, which is even more troubling.

I do feel that the people that are mentioned in the book are very sincere, i just have trouble with the milky message that this book contains.

All Scripture taken from the KJV.

Well this is a short post, just wanted to get something new up about the site. I know there are several things broken like the RSS button at the top of the page and the page navigation at the bottom is not working correctly. I will get these things fixed in the next few weeks. I have a client that wants work done on their site, so i will be spending my time on that. I think next year i will get another nice theme and get it to work here as well. Like to change it up every once in a while. I wish i had more creative skills in the design area, however that is not my gift. I am happy for what i do have thou.

Hey God loves you even when if feels like no one else does.

Well anyway this book in my opinion is well done and relays the story and message that each one of us is important. Each thing we do will ripple through time and touch many other peoples lives. If you have young kids this would be a good book to read. Help encourage them and let them know that they do make a difference in this world. And we want them to use this time to be a difference for good, not evil.