Nobody likes it. Most people get it at some point in their life. So what is it? “Sinusitis is a condition consisting of infection or inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, which may or may not be as a result of infection, from bacterial, fungal, viral, allergic or autoimmune issues. Newer classifications of sinusitis refer to [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Josh Champagne
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I love the ease of use that Picasa has to offer for uploading images to the web. However, until today I hadn’t found a good solution for posting these images in a nice graphical way on blogs. Picasna answers that need. To test this out, here’s an album from a day trip I took to [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2010 by Josh Champagne
Filed under: Computers & Technical, Photos, Product Reviews | 3 Comments »
I recently made the discovery of a fairly new website dedicated to Christian music, Hymnary.org. Built with Drupal, an open-source content management system, this website is a beautiful example of excellent information architecture. Letting it it speak for itself… The Hymnary is a new kind of hymn Web site. It combines the best features of [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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So in my search for the best savings interest rate, I tripped across the Christian Finance Blog‘s review of Dollar Savings Direct (which by the way has a 4% interest rate on their savings accounts). One of the posts on the blog was asking people to comment for the chance to win $35 worth of [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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I got to use Verizon’s business FIOS in Everett today while configuring a networked printer for a business client. Wow, I’d be willing to pay a pretty penny to get that kind of connectivity. Here’s a screenshot with the test results. 15Mb/s down and 5.4Mb/s up! At home I get 2.8 Mb/s down and about [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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The long awaited Picasa 3 for Mac OS X has arrived. Unfortunately it won’t work on my iMac G5, but I look forward to using it on my laptop. This was one of the last remaining reasons I still preferred Windows for my media storage and digital asset management needs.
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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After months of putting it off, I finally got around to changing my header graphic to a nice dynamic slideshow of some of my photos utilizing Flash and a little PHP magic. I went and downloaded the Flashfader Plugin and then had to find the magic spot in my header.php file to place the code. [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
Filed under: Computers & Technical, Product Reviews, Research & Learning | 3 Comments »
I was having a heat issue with my laptop, so I went to find something that could monitor and control the temperature and fan speed to keep things from melting down. I discovered a great little utility that fit the need perfectly. It shows up in my control panel err… System Preferences in mac speak [...]
Posted on November 26th, 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 [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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A friend recently opened an online store specializing in modest clothes. I was amazed how fast she was able to get it all listed. From conservative dresses, jumpers, skirts and swim suits to Carhartt workpants and black leather shoes she’s jumped right into the marketplace with both feet. The website is marketed towards anyone with [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
Filed under: Mennonite, News and Current Events, Product Reviews | 5 Comments »