Buzz

It seems like the name buzz is around in a lot of places on the internet, from Yahoo's buzz, or Blogger Buzz, or the new service from AT&T simply called Buzz. Buzz is a new service that collects popular blogs post from that day for your consumption, what makes them different from every other blog collecting site (e.g. Google Reader, Yahoo Mail)? Buzz will read you the posts to you through a creepy avatar that speaks to you in a Stephen Hawking voice. This is a cool little feature that is worth checking out but not really anything to get excited over, at this point you aren't able to add the blogs you read to this service so you won't be having your daily news read to you anytime soon. In fact buzz is pretty featureless when it comes to the ability to put user generated content in there. Still it is an interesting site that is making me play with the voice feature in windows right now (good memories of Ravencrest can be found in this little electronic voice).

Luke 9:46-50

Luke 9:46 An argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest. 47 But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side, 48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great.” 49 John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us.” 50 But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you.” (NASB)

I don't hear many people talking about these verses for some reason. It isn't the most comfortable of all verses I will admit, I can think of a lot of people who I wouldn't want to align myself with by saying that we ultimately believe the same thing, in fact most times I might try to distance myself from them by highlighting our differences. But that is not what Jesus is telling us to do here. John basically comes to Jesus and says that because this man is not part of their group he shouldn't be able to cast out the demons, John latter would change the criteria by which he would judge someones ministry from what group they are in to, simply, whether or not they would preach Christ 1 John 4:1-4.

Jesus' response to John is to make it clear that there is no in between, if someone is teaching the name of Christ that is what is important, either someone is helping you or not. Later in Luke 11:23 Jesus puts it a different was saying "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters." Jesus makes it clear that the way in which we are to judge mans ministry is by who's name he does it by. It is either Christ or by the world.

Stuff

Recently on Richard Dahlstrom's blog he posted about a video on the web called the story of stuff. In the video a woman named Annie Leonard takes you through the complete process of production of stuff, from extraction to disposal and the effect which each stage has on the environment. It is only twenty minutes long and is an eye opening video. Click the link above or the picture below.

I am a grown up

When I was in third grade I looked at the fourth graders and thought that they were almost grown up. When I got into middle school I looked up to Peter B. thinking that he was mature. In high school I wondered if I would ever become an adult. It took me 22 years and a marriage but I realized last night at about 2am...I am an adult...
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Shoot.

More Free Stuff

I, like most people, love free stuff, so anytime that anything free pops up on my screen I take notice. That is just what happened the other day, thanks to Webware, when I found Giveaway of the Day. Giveaway of the Day does just what the name says that it will gives one software title away everyday for free, the thought is that the more people have and are reviewing the software that is given away the better it is for the company, a way to get free advertising. This is one of the best ideas that I have heard about in a long time, I don't get why Microsoft can't think like this. To see what todays free software is take a look at the ticker below.