real mobile computing

well I think the era of real mobile computing has really come. I am writing this on my N97. I have just read someone elses blog, posted a comment on it, and now I am writing this. My callender and address book are updated to my phone over the 3G network and I can access all sorts of info via the web. Information is truly ubiquitous. I am truly amazed!!!!!

Deliberate Living

Well there are a few things that have happened in the last few weeks, one of them being several nights with Dr Peter Daniels at a conference at World Harvest. One thing rediscovered for me was the phrase "a sense of Destiny". Sometimes we need to rediscover things that get lost in the whirl wind of life.
If we are not careful we can fall into a "subsistent lifestyle", Living from day to day and waiting for a set of predetermined parameters to to occur before we can start "living life". In doing so we give up our control and decision making to some external source. Something that makes us truly human is our ability to make decisions about how we live our lives. A consequences of living subsistently is that we can often start to feel trapped and caged in, and then frustration sets in.
One of the gifts that God has given us is the "freedom of choice". I am also convinced that He has an ultimate plan for our lives and that we have the freedom to choose whether to follow this plan or not.
A phrase that I have been contemplating is "deliberate living", I think we need to consider carefully how we are going to live and make deliberate choices rather than float along with out purpose, controlled by external factors. I think that we have to seek after that ultimate plan and start to live deliberately making good choices that will lead us along that path.
Not all of us are called to become multimillionaires like Peter Daniels, but we can all have a significant impact upon the people around us by deliberately choosing to have a positive influence in every situation that we are involved in. Let us seek out Gods purpose for us all individually and rediscover what it is like to live with "A Sense of Destiny".

thanks Darrin

Wow talk about changes in your life, mine is going to never be the same, I am experiencing a liberty that I haven't had for a long time. I have a lightness and a joy that I can't explained from an earthly perspective.

CS Lewis said "If you discover a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, then perhaps you should ponder that you were created for another world."

That is exactly what I am experiencing, the reality of what Jesus did for me on the cross, and the recent pruning of what was unfruitful in my life has freed me to be what I should be, a free child of His. And so I am living in supernatural joy and loving it

watch this space

Well 2009 was quite a year, full of its ups and downs. Most years I have a "lets get refreshed and get on with what we are doing last year" attitude, but this year everything is up in the air.

I'm currently getting refreshed on my annual holiday, all sorts of options are open to me, new study options, new job options and new social group options.

I am fully convinced that for me 2010 will be a completely new year and I don't know what it will bring, however I know that my Heavenly Father is all loving and all powerful and he has made a promise to me;

NASB: Jeremiah Chapter 29
11. 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

and I'm claiming that promise and all I can say is "watch this space"

Jimmy the Greyhound

Jimmy came into our house a little over a week ago as a foster dog. When we first met him he was full of beans and very unsettled but it soon showed that he was just a bit upset about being out of his familiar surroundings of his previous home.

What we soon discovered after a few days was the he was a big hearted dog who would do anything to make his people happy.

We had a lot of walks in the 8 days he was with us, and he was just starting to walk loosely and relaxed on the lead. He was a lot of fun and enjoyed running around with the toy bunny. He also started to enjoy a hug and was starting to embrace the inner couch potato that we know is on the inside of every greyhound and was getting the hang of this strange up bed that he was given to sleep on. He loved children and socialized well with other little dogs.

I have no doubt that he would have passed his green collar test with flying colours, he had all the attributes of a greyt pet and companion dog.

Unfortunately there were some complications while at the vet and they weren't able to save him. Some things are tragedies, this is one of them.

Jimmy you were a greyt dog, even though you were with us for only 8 days you bought something into our lives and made an impression upon us, we will always remember you.

Tomboy Notes

What can I say, I love free software!!!
For me a while back "Free Software" used to mean the programs I got a crack for so I didn't have to pay for them. Now it means the programs that I can use, swap, redistribute and modify, free as in freedom to do with it as I choose.

One of the most useful programs that I use is called Tomboy notes, I have been using it for a while and it usually comes installed with Ubuntu.



You know those little tid bits of info that you need to keep, and you can't find your pen so you need to type it somewhere? Or it doesn't fit into any category so you cant file it any were on your computer? Well thats Tomboy notes is for. Whats more is that it has a built in search, so if you can't remember exactly where you put your info its still easy to find. Another feature that I like is that you can link notes together by inserting the title of one note into another.

What is even more awesome is that I noticed that Tomboy is not only available on Linux but they do Mac and Windows versions as well, so go ahead and download it and check it out and see if you like it if you do, let me know what you think.

Download here

I think I have made it easier to leave a comment :)


(Images are unashamedly copied directly of of the tomboy notes site I believe they are under a creative commons license)

this week

OK so its been an interesting week, I wasn't fortunate to get an invite to google wave, but I know that some folk are busy testing it for me for when it is ready for release to the public.

I'm getting tired of Facebook, it is really limited in a proprietary kind of way, what you seem to get is what they want to throw at you, I still use it to keep in touch with family and friends, but I have disabled all the game notifications, they were starting to annoy me. I am instead going to blog here which is what I want to do and maybe link to it.

There are lots of tools here to do some good blogging so I'll try them out and see if I like them.

I have been happy with Google Picasa it seems to do a great job of organizing my photos without rearranging my file structure I think I will stick with it for now, I can't see myself getting stuck with a proprietary format so it should do the job for a while, at least until a mature GPL program come out.

I have been reading the blogoshere regarding the up and coming Windows 7 release, there have been a lot of positives about Windows 7 however the fact remains, it is just an Operating System, with it you still lack the freedoms that you have with Linux/FreeBSD to do with you computer as you wish, so it remains something that I'm not really interested in but feel free to use it yourself.

I'm pretty happy with how Ubuntu 9.10 is going, its hard to believe that it is still beta software. What is really cool is how much the bluetooth stuff has improved, especially the audio, I think they have finally got that properly sorted I need to get testing some audio editing software I guess to really put it though it paces.

Well thats it for now I guess, have a good week an I hope to blog again soon. If you read this please do me a favor and at least put a smilee face in the comments, I'd like to know you are reading my blog.

Cheers Darrin