This morning, I listened to a powerful message by Paul Washer, preached at last week’s Revival Conference, that disturbed me — and that’s a good thing. The sermon is titled Ten Indictments (link below). I won’t comment on my response to it too much as there are things from the message that I have to [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Most parts of Washington State look like the following photo during the month of October.
Scattered here and there however, you will find more traditional fall color like the photos below that I took while out walking today.
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Yes, it’s autumn, and a beautiful autumn it is turning out to be here in the Pacific Northwest. But I was thinking about a different fall this morning.
I was thinking of what the remaining 31,040 verses in the Bible would look like if two verses in Genesis read differently:
6And when the woman saw that the [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Open Office 3.0 is officially available today.
I wasn’t able to download it from the official site, because their servers were so slammed by traffic, however there is an alternative download at the University of Utah.
I was smiling when I read this on the Open Office website which is stripped of its usual graphic-laden appearance in [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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One of my favorite aspects of running an onsite computer service business is meeting interesting people.
I’ve met:
A retired lead design engineer of the Boeing 747
A best-selling author who remembers voting for FDR!
Someone who helped build Bill Gates’ house.
Another individual who because of the weather, canceled a job interview with a startup called Microsoft about 30 [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Video games have always fascinated me, not because of the games themeselves, but because of their effect on the individual playing. Here’s a video from TED that covers the topic illustrated by a video clip of someone who was born the same year I was. (A side note: I rarely play video games because I [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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It looks like mankind has not given up on building a tower that reaches to “heaven”. CNN has an interesting story.
‘Space elevator’ would take humans into orbit
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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