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I found a cool new video sharing site called Viddyou. It’s actually pretty easy to use and pings Twitter and has a Facebook app. I’m going to try and embed a video here.

We’ll see if that works or not.

After several months of trying to figure out what direction my life was taking, it seems that God has been slowly trying to open my eyes to see where he is leading me. I have been “messing” around with the internet and the new technology that is coming out in hopes of turning it into a full-time, pay the bills endeavor. My stated purpose in having this blog is to help you prepare for and use the new technologies. I have always assumed that the “you” was other people wanting to earn a living on the internet, but have come to the realization that maybe I’ve been focusing on the wrong “you”.

I earned a BA in Bible in 1988. I have “wandered” in the wilderness for the past 20 years and now feel that God has prepared me for his ultimate purpose. I am seeking a position with a congregation to help them grow ever more into the likeness of God’s Son and become the Bride of Christ that God is calling them to be.

With that in mind, the “you” is now going to be more focused on those who are working to spread the News,  of God’s great love, and Hope of Salvation with those around them. We’ll be talking about how to use the new technologies…Facebook, Twitter, Ustream, Blip.tv, Wordpress, and others to help with the work.

God is providing us with great and useful tools, lets use them to spread the News.

Sherman Hu has a great tutorial about how you can assign another person the role of “author” on your blog and limit their access to your whole blog. So effectively you could either contract with other people (you know “hire them”) or maybe have a collective blog, but limit what the other writers can do to the blog, and in that way you wouldn’t have to write every post for your blog. 

Just an idea.

My daughter Mallory wanted so badly to get back out and ride her bike again. We had to wait for two days, but this video shows the results of that waiting.

I’m very proud of Mallory. The actual riding time was about 20 minutes, but I didn’t think you would want to here the Indiana wind blow for that long (sorry about the sound quality of video) :). This episode in her life points out some reflections in my own life and hopefully will reflect in yours. If you want something and you’re willing to work for it, you will enjoy success. It might take several times, but not giving up is the key. Success will come in time. The second thing is if you fall down, you gotta get up and get back on the bike. When things go wrong you just get up dust yourself off and start pedaling again. The last thing I want to point out today is that small corrections will generally give you better results. Everytime Mallory tried to correct her course with big adjustments the results were not what she wanted. Same goes for me and you, usually small adjustments work better than large adjustments. When in doubt just keep pedaling. It seems that just when she was about to crash, she learned that by pedaling it would come around. Take action, when it seems that it’s about to crash it’s time to take action. Till next time, JUST KEEP PEDALING.

Ok. I know there wasn’t much on this site before, mostly just posts from my twitter feed. So I went with a different website design and then decided to come back to Wordpress. So I’ll be updating and posting here for the next couple of days trying to catch up and then it should be more regular after that.

Sorry for the confusion.