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Microsoft Has a New Search Engine

Just when you thought Google had it all sewn up, Microsoft is still attempting to come up with an answer to Google and to try to get in on Google’s millions making search engine.

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Who Are Your Friends?

We live in an interesting age.  I don’t know how many times friends from my high school want to e-mail or contact me—if only I’ll pay cash to talk to them, or at least that’s what Classmates.com wants me to believe.

We used to be able to move on from place to place, keeping in contact with the people in our lives that really mattered, and letting the acquaintances and others move on with their lives and grow into fond memories.

Not today.  In the rush for the latest status symbol, if someone finds your name on a list of available people they’ll rush to add you to it.  They wear the number of “friends” or “followers” that they have like previous generations would collect beanie babies.

For me, the amusing part is that they let all these people in to look at their lives, and those insights usually provide quite the amusement in themselves.  Once added, twice forgotten, I believe.

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Highlighting

Time is precious.  As you may have noticed, my new job and the coming spring and summer months along with the inability to find a “groove” and continuing to build the increasingly popular Is This Modest? blog has meant that I haven’t had the time that I would like to write here on politics, current events and the culture.

The weird part is that it feels like I’m writing a lot, but you only see a part of it, and so what good is that?

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I Am Here, Just Not As You Expect…

Life.  It has a way of constantly changing the rules on a person.  Once you think that you’ve figured out a routine, or that you’re going to do things a specific way, things don’t go that way.

I believe that God gets a chuckle out of our planning and strategy.

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Finding a Home For Your Blog

As some of you know, I’m starting a redesign for my daughter blog¹, Is This Modest.  One of the interesting things during this process is realizing that that blog may eventually become bigger than this one, and starting to think through whether the current hosting situation I have will be able to expand as my “empire” does, or whether I’ll be able to stay where I am.

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1. Do you call them daughter blogs when you started them, even if you’re a guy? [↩]

A Little Housekeeping

Seriously, I haven’t been AWOL, I’ve just been a little busy, but I figure I owe a little explanation and update.

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Comments Don’t Seem to Work for IE Users – FIXED!

I’ll spare you all the “you should be using a real browser” lecture for right now, and just let you know: I’ve tried to post a comment to my latest post in IE7, and I got stuck on the wp-comments.php page. Right now, I don’t know whether it’s a WordPress bug, an IE7 bug, or something in my theme since I’ve upgraded to WP 2.7. So, for all of you that want to leave a comment and can’t, rest assured that I’ll get to fix this when I can!

Oh, and by the way, commenting is working for me in Firefox 3.0.5, and it’s a free download.

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UPDATE: Looks like it was a plugin causing the problem.  I use Link Love to take away the nofollow restriction on links in comments.  Guess I’ll be looking for a new plugin for that feature!

The Best of 2008

It’s that time again.  Time to look back at 2008 and see how the Lord blessed:

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