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So I've been playing with Twitter - I'm not so sure I like it yet. It's like blogging, but more instantaneous. I guess it's good for finding out what someone is doing RIGHT NOW, but I'm still trying to figure out if that's a good thing or not. At least with a blog post, you get to think about it, edit it a little, then push the publish button. With Twitter, it's out there. BAM!

We'll play with it some more.

Much of my thinking recently has been about the mobile web. I believe that in a few years we will do more surfing on our phones than we do on our PC's. This will be a giant change for our lives - ubiquitous access to the internet, anywhere, any time. It will also mean big changes in our devices.

The iPhone and Google's new Android platform, as well as the 50 bazillion Blackberries are the first wave of web-friendly devices that are serving up the mobile web. Sites will become more mobile-friendly or will use intermediaries to serve their content up in a mobile-friendly way.

Colin, in one of his blog posts, encouraged me to do more blogging. I'd like to - I'm a little restricted because I work for one of those companies that would likely send you packing if they found out you were blogging on company time. They have the technology and the wherewithall to find out about it too.

So, I'll try to do some stuff in my off hours. Now if I could only figure out how to blog from my cellphone....

Thanks for the nudge Colin.

I upgraded my Linux box to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, the Hardy Heron. The upgrade ran for several hours and then started giving me some errors trying to upgrade several packages, VirtualBox being one of them. Finally, I clicked OK on one error message telling me that the Update Manager was giving up, and it just ended with this cheerful dialog telling me that my box might be "unstable."

OK, although no one reads this or cares, I'll try to keep this updated. Don't know why - there are lots of people out there saying blogs are SO over with. Still, it's something to do. Like I need more to do.

I really need to upgrade this Drupal to the new version - should be easy, but all I need now is time. HA!

The following is a quote from Charles Spurgeon:

I love this ... "The Earth has issues...."
Anyway, check out the new joint venture between Google and Virgin, called Virgle. That's right - Virgle. Wow.

This article is an interesting read - it says that the world's largest publisher of Bibles is in China, and produces the Scriptures for the growing Chinese church. Neat stuff!

In this great blog post, Al Mohler describes the outrage of some parents when a school superintendent banned sexually explicit dancing at a school dance. Most parents agreed, but a vocal minority took the students' side and said that their kids should be able to "dance and dress the way they want to."

When we exclude God from the marketplace, moral ambiguity becomes the norm. When parents question authority and join their children in rebellion, it shows what a lost world results when there is no anchor for what defines morality and ethics. An interesting, if not worrying trend.

This is an excellent article posted by Phil Johnson over at the Pyromaniacs by Dorothy L. Sayers, one of my favorite authors, a friend of C.S. Lewis, a translator of Dante, and a Christian. Please read it. Thanks for posting it, Phil.