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Goal-Setting Expert Advice and Tips: "5. Intimate Relationships With Your Friends

Surround yourself with nourishing friends. Share yourself with them and let them share themselves with you."

Share yourself with me.

boxing to look for

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?id=2272147
remind me to look for some of those fights

Congrats to the Big Game

Your Fantasy Football Champion for 2005

Third Day

Got the new Third Day cd for Christmas. It's good. Mellow, but still solid. I haven't listened to it enough for a proper feeling. Anywho, they have a blog now. Here. Check out the post on U2.

But it isn't, technically

CourierPress: Religion: "'GodCasting'

December 17, 2005

The Rev. David Niednagel is among Evansville's most popular and charismatic pastors. Now, his plain-spoken messages are finding new ears outside the walls of Christian Fellowship Church. The listeners aren't in pews. They're online, and they're not alone.

Nationwide, an estimated 4.5 million people this year used their digital music players - the most popular of which is Apple's iPod - to listen to spoken-word programs from sources such as ABC News or ESPN. Podcasting, as it is known, has become so popular it even earned itself an entry this year in the dictionary.

But Niednagel is part of the fast-growing niche known as Godcasting, which makes available downloadable messages from Christians, Jews, Mormons and even pagans. There, between Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus' and Kanye West's 'Jesus Walks,' Sunday's messages are available for download. An average of 488 people download Christian Fellowship Church's service, said Steve Gubbins, technical ministries director. 'Some of it is people from other churches who want to hear what David (Niednagel) has to say. We have a lot of listeners from around the world,' Gubbins said. 'It expands the reach of the church (to) shut-ins, people who can't get here. It allows them to stay connected and share with us.'

And the number is growing.

According to industry analyst The Diffusion Group, the 800,000 consumers who used podcasting in 2004 is expected to reach 56.8 million people in 2010.

In other words: The number will double each year through the end of this decade.

Right now, about 15 percent of those who have digital music devices use them for podcasting. That rate is expected to reach 75 percent by 2010.

Podcasting could represent the single largest increase in religious exposure since television, which gave rise to the televangelist. The on-demand audio has the potential to reach an even greater share of the population while spending very little on production costs. In many cases, the audio already is recorded. It just has to be converted into a digital file and made available online."

You can access the mp3's of the services online at http://onlinecfc.com/public/onlineresources/. However, techinically it isn't a podcast. The podcast involves the rss feed so that you can have a podcatcher to get the weekly sermons automagically. I think I need to call Steve Gubbins again.

cards blog

started a new cardinals blog:

http://www.bigbadreviews.com/cardinals/

I figure since 2006 is the cardinals year to win it all I would like a record of the events. It's still a work in progross, so excuse the mess.

baby pop up

Yahoo! News: "A mother trapped in a burning third-floor apartment prayed and then dropped her 1-month-old son out a window to the crowd below. The infant was caught safely by a man who plays catcher for his employer's baseball team."

just maybe

Yahoo! News: "Will the pay-TV environs of Showtime be a friendlier place for the Emmy-winning comedy 'Arrested Development,' which just got canceled by Fox?

Word around town this week is that Showtime is in talks to pick up the comedy about a chaotic family. Sources stressed that the talks are still exploratory and that it would be a big financial commitment on Showtime's part to pick up the show in its current form with a large ensemble cast that includes
Jason Bateman,
Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi,
Jessica Walter and Will Arnett.

'Arrested' was an instant hit with critics following its debut on Fox in late 2003, but the show never pulled in much of a crowd, even after it won the Emmy for best comedy series in 2004. Last month, Fox threw in the towel, cutting its episode order for 'Arrested's' third season from its initial 22-episode ticket to 13."

Unrealistic?

Narnia is off to a good start

Yahoo! News: "'Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' scored a much-needed box office hit for Walt Disney Co, taking in $67 million for the second-biggest debut ever in a weekend in December.
'Narnia,' based on the popular children's books by C.S. Lewis, fell just below the record $72.6 million three-day opening for 2003's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' but outpaced the first 'Rings' film, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' which grossed $47 million in 2001."

QOTD

The Quotations Page: "Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Theodore Sturgeon"

movies

Only 16 dvds left to watch before the end of the year. We've really picked up the pace lately. I think we're gonna make it.

cool

TheOpenCD.org: "TheOpenCD team is pleased to announce the release of TheOpenCD 3.1. Core applications including OpenOffice, Firefox and Gaim have been upgraded to major new versions. The popular game Battle for Wesnoth has reached 1.0 and a range familiar programs appear in minor version updates. The Live CD component is now based on Ubuntu 5.10 (the Breezy Badger). Blender has returned in version 2.37a and the MoinMoin Desktop Edition has been added. (see the full list here). The user interface which proved quite successful for v3.0 has remained largely unchanged, only tweaked slightly."

Are You Ready for Some Snow?

14 WFIE: "The drive home Thursday could be interesting.

Storm Team meteorologist Chad Sewich says there is a snow advisory for most of the Tri-State Thursday afternoon. One to three inches of snow are possible, with higher amounts north of the Ohio River.In Kentucky, the precipitation could come as a snow/sleet mix.

Chad says the snow will likely start during the lunch hour Thursday and continue into the evening. By Friday morning, the skies will clear and cold temperatures will return."

Sean Dockery Quotes

Duke vs. Va Tech: "'I was wide open. I know I can make wide open shots. The play was not really for me, but I was talking to Coach [Johnny] Dawkins on the bench, and he was telling me, 'They're not playing you, so go get the ball.' So Josh [McRoberts] and I just sort of nodded at each other, and I feel comfortable with my shot - I feel comfortable about the way I was playing all day - so I just let it go, and I hit the shot.'

'The play was really for Shelden [Williams]. I guess we were going to try and do the Christian Laettner play and go deep and try to get a shot from the foul line. But they just played me wide open, so Josh threw the ball and I just let it go. When I shot it looked like a little J.J. shot - it was rotating really good and I hit it.'

'I can say it was pretty much like slow motion. The shot was probably like 10 seconds in the air. It was a long time. It was a great shot, but I'm really excited that we won the game.'

'It's unexplainable. You dream about shots like that you know, just shooting on a crate or on a little hanger in your room. Just hitting that shot is unbelievable. When I made it, I was just lying on the floor like, 'Oh my God, I can't believe this.''

'I don't think we played as well as we're capable of playing. But that's a great team also - unbelievable coach and unbelievable players. They came out and they were ready to play today, so you have to give them all their props today.'"

vidcast

I'm going to start doing a vidcast (a video showing how to do things) of helpful computer tips on how to do things like setup a wishlist on amazon, how to setup a blog, why you should use firefox and how to set it up. Does anyone have any topics that they'd like to learn about? Some computer term or phrase that you've heard that you aren't sure what it is or why you would need it? Leave me a note in the comments about it.

the dunk contest

This is the 2001 all star NBA dunk contest video hightlights. Awesome.

Mouse-less Firefox

Lifehacker: Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn’t doing the trick.

Navigation from the toolbar

The address bar shortcut should be as instinctual as breathing by now, but there’s a few more shortcuts to that top bar that you should keep in mind.

* Select location bar: Ctrl/Cmd+L or Alt+D
* Select search bar: Ctrl/Cmd+K
* Back: Backspace or Alt/Cmd+Left
* Forward: Alt/Option+Right or Shift+Backspace
* Change search engine: Ctrl/Cmd+Down (Next) +Up (Previous)

See the article for more.

Pantera's Box you do not want to open

Pandora: "Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs."