Tired

I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden I am exhausted. I was going to post one or two good posts tonight, but it ain't happening. I promise normal blogging will resume soon.

Meet the Apple Nessie PC

Having read the News.com story about Apple’s supposed impending switch to x86, let me propose an excellent code name for this forthcoming system: “Nessie.” Like Nessie’s namesake Loch Ness Monster, the rumor of Mac OS on x86 rings of the stuff of tabloids, not something that people take seriously. Of course, that leaves us to ask what we are to make of it when one of the most respectable online computer news sources, News.com, reports as virtual fact that Apple will be switching to Intel, and the story apparently seems credible enough to get Reuters to pick it up. Read my full thoughts at OfB.biz.

Apple to Go Intel?

News.com is usually a pretty respectable news source, so when they report as fact that Apple is switching to Intel, I have to pay somewhat more attention than I usually give to such claims. But, Apple to Intel chipsets? That makes little sense, since no legacy software would run (at least decently), the systems would be slower, AltiVec would no longer be available, etc., etc. If this is true, I predict Apple will not survive the switch. For now, I am presuming the report will be proven false during Job's WWDC keynote on Monday.

Gallery Problems

I thought I'd upload my PhotoQuest to my photo gallery, but I found out my tightened security on my server has broken the gallery software. I guess it will be another day 'til the May PQ appears. I'm sorry, Flip.

Late on PQ

Well, I was going to get the PhotoQuest up this past weekend. Or at least by the end of May. Or at least no later than the first day of June. No dice. How about the second day of June?

Putting it On Paper

I've spent a good chunk of the evening today writing down every detail I could about last week. I ended up with over 10 pages of material. What will I do with this now that it is written down? I'm not sure; it is too raw to do much at all with. But, at least I have a record while things are still fresh.

Improved on IE

Asisaid should now render properly on standards non-compliant browsers ( cough Internet Explorer cough) as well as those which obey standards, now. I tested the site against IE 6 on Windows 98, and, as always, continue to test it against Mozilla Firefox 1.x and Apple Safari 2.0. With Firefox now grabbing nearly 10% of the browser market, less than one year after release, I'm a bit more optimistic that Microsoft may soon have to learn to play nice with W3C specifications, but I'm not overly optimistic.

As a side note, I love the new features of Safari 2.0, especially the RSS reader integration. Now, I can keep up with all of my regularly read blogs without having to go to each one just to see if something new has been posted. I added all of the RSS feeds to one bookmark folder on my bookmark bar, and now I can just click that and see all of the feeds aggregated conveniently. I am also appreciating that Apple finally supported embedded PDF's; it is beyond me why Apple opted not to do this with the original Safari, but I am happy to have it finally acting the way it does in other browsers.

Wrestling with God

I was reminded of Jacob's nighttime wrestling with God this week (Genesis 32.21-32). On Monday, I felt like I had one of the clearest experiences of God leading me that I've ever felt. I spent the rest of the week puzzling over the details of exactly what that meant. Why was God telling me these particulars? What should I do with them? Jacob struggled with God for a blessing; I was struggling for an understanding of how these details fit together. Being in the mostly uninterrupted quiet of the Ozarks was just where I needed to be for this.

A lot of what I would like to know remains a mystery to me. I started to doubt if I had really heard the Holy Spirit. Could it be I was just reading too much into things? No. I prayed that God would show me a sign if I was really hearing Him and not just myself. Unexpectedly, this morning's sermon was on taking the leadings of the Spirit; the topic had been picked a few weeks ago (although I had not noticed that), but our pastor had scrapped the original sermon and written a different one yesterday that hit even closer. It really seemed like a confirmation to me. As usher captain for the month of May, I was alone in the Narthex during the sermon, which was just as well, for I was overcome by what I was hearing.

Other things have stood out in the last few days. Having finished a few novels (the Da Vinci Code, Silenced, the Remnant and Armageddon) in the last few weeks, I decided to return to a non-fiction piece I had barely started last year and had never made it back to: Philip Yancey's Rumors of Another World. Yancey always has something good to say, but today I was taken aback by what I found on the pages directly following where I had stopped so many months ago. It all fit into the pattern of what I thought God was telling me. A few sentences were eerily almost word-for-word what I had planned to jot down as I organized all of my thoughts while in the Ozarks this week.

I still don't know what to do with this information, but I know I need to keep listening.

I'm Baaaack!

Well, it is always a downer to be back after a nice vacation, but it was such a nice trip that I'm feeling pretty good today anyway. It was a great week, and being the week before Memorial Day, it wasn't too busy, although busier than it typically is the week before Memorial Day. The weather was mostly nice and unseasonably mild, which I appreciated very much.

I did wave when going past Rolla, did you wave back, Christopher? I like Michael's idea of meeting at the Hen House sometime. I thought about my blogging buddies of Bourbon and Rolla while I was enjoying my broasted chicken dinner there last night.

Adieu, For Now

I'm off for a few days of R-n-R in the Ozarks. I'll be back at the end of the week, so make sure the party celebrating my absence ends by Thursday so that you can pretend you really missed my daily posts.

Seriously, have a great week, y'all!