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Monday, December 29th, 2008I came upon a recent wall post on the “Christians in Technology” Facebook group: “For ‘Caesar’ I do server maintenance. For God, I am a Sunday School teacher.” I couldn’t let that go by without a comment.
I believe that whatever we do in the world we do for God. Kingdom work is more than just […]
The End of the Internet
Saturday, November 15th, 2008These are some of my favorite “end of the internet” pages:
http://www.weirdity.com/internet/eoti.html
http://mdesmond.com/end-of-the-internet
http://www.endoftheinternet.com
http://shibumi.org/eoti.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~thesandpit/misc/the_end.htm
http://webnme.com/endoftheinternet.html
Serendipty
Saturday, November 15th, 2008My cousin, who is a librarian, recently sent me this quote from Annie Proulx: “I mourn the loss of the old card catalogs, not because I’m a luddite, but because the oaken trays of yesteryear offered the researcher an element of random utility and felicitous surprise through encounters with adjacent cards, information by chance that […]
Think Critically, Act Ethically
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Last week (November 3-7) was National Media Education Week in Canada. The Media Awareness Network, who organized it, posted this video to help publicize it:
Here are some excerpts from their website:
Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate - able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media messages and […]
Discipline for the Technologist
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I am not sure whether there is an accepted generic term for those of us who have vocations in technology: programmers, web designers, games developers, software test engineers, database administrators, network administrators, IT managers, and computer geeks of all kinds. I will use the term technologists.
Co-blogger Wan Phek How and I (both technologists ourselves), along […]
A Prayer before Logging onto the Internet
Monday, July 21st, 2008Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 636) is the patron saint of computer technicians and Internet users. He was the Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades. A great scholar, he was the first Christian writer to compile a summa, or encyclopedia, of universal knowledge. It was cross-indexed, so it could be considered […]
Good Technology, Bad Technology: How do we tell the difference?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Always on, always available, always connected—these are the buzzwords regularly touted by successful technology companies. Popular websites like Facebook and YouTube, powered by simple Web 2.0 tools, enable a broad range of users to author and share personalized web content. To improve efficiency and productivity, businesses demand technology that is standardized, modular, and easy to […]
Internet Addiction
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I couldn’t help chuckling at the irony of this, the left sidebar on the home page of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery (snippet shown at left here).
So you’ve got an Internet addiction? No worries! Spend time on our website, reading our blog, shopping online in our bookstore, chatting in our addiction support group. Join […]
International Shutdown Day - May 3, 2008
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008I just learned that today is the second annual International Shutdown Day.
Unfortunately the site is down (they must have taken their own mandate seriously and taken their server offline already), but you can still read about it here.
So what am I doing online at 5:30am on Shutdown Day? My excuse is my day hasn’t started […]
Pray as you go: technology and prayer
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I recently learned about a great website from a friend who has it set as her home page in her browser. Jesuit Media Initiatives has created pray-as-you-go, a daily podcast for a guided prayer time of about ten minutes. I’ve bookmarked it and now am trying to develop the habit of taking a prayer break […]
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