How to Handle Sinners

Think Christian has a post about a business owner that chose not to provide his services to a gay couple. What would you do in that situation? I don't think it was a good idea. I think sometimes we might get confused as to the situations in which we should stand by convictions (a minister who doesn't conduct a wedding ceremony for a gay couple avoids hypocrisy) compared to other situations where we should show Christ's love through our service to the "outsiders."

For example, would you give clothing or food to a cold and hungry drug addict or alcoholic? This example can be stretched to other areas of sin as well, but when it comes down to it, Christians shouldn't be the ones handing out "punishment" (lack of love and service) to "sinners". If that were the case, each of us would deserve punishment from each other all the time.

Blind Carbon Copy

One of my biggest geek pet peeves is when someone sends an email to like 30 people and put all the addresses in the To: field. Whether the email is informative or junk does not matter. The issue is that there is often no reason to have everyone's email address exposed for everyone else to see. This raises a few issues:

• What if I didn't want everyone else to know my email address, and I only gave it to you because you're my friend? Now everyone else on the To: list needs to know my address.
• Now any recipient of that email can just click "Reply to All" and send even more often useless email to fill your inbox.
• If one of the 29 other people on the email decides to forward the email, now even more people can see my email address. Have you ever seen when you get a forward, that you have to scroll through all the other people that the email came from? This is often how email addresses are harvested for spammers.
  

Read more about Email Netiquette 101 (See especially Rule 12 -- "Don't expose your email routing list to spammers"), Bcc etiquette, and read some other content here.

Harvest Messages

Through some source snooping, I found that you can stream any of the current or previous Harvest Bible Chapel messages by using the URL format below:

mms://www.harvestbible.org/Streaming/4/wwyyyymmdd.wma

So let's say you heard the message from October 18 was great, but it's no longer available through HBC's website. Just go to mms://www.harvestbible.org/Streaming/4/ww20061018.wma. The mms:// at the beginning just tells your computer that it's streaming media.

Let me know if it doesn't work.

How geeks think

This article from OSNews.com captures my heart (except I'm not much of a Linux guy .. yet) in that it shows how I (a self-proclaimed geek) think.

Technology enthusiasts like the ability to choose between zillions of options, trying and tweaking at their leisure. In fact, it could be said that many enjoy it. Average users would disagree; to them, more choice constitute a source of headache.

Why Desktop Linux Will Not Take off, and Why You Don't Want It to - OSNews.com

Free Chipotle?

Okay don't get too excited. Free Burritos are only in DeKalb, IL. I guess there is actually a perk of going to NIU.

Geeked out Lexus

It looks like KITT is back ... as a Lexus. Not that I want it or anything. Really.



Yeah, I'm posting again .. I'm going to try at least once a week.

::Welcome to McDonald's India ::

While looking for a local McDonald's to meet a broke friend, I surfed my way over to McDonald's India. Check out their menu and other items. I thought it was amusing. And their Ronald McDonald looks kinda funny ...

You don't have to be cold to catch a cold.

I love debunking myths, especially the ones our parents believe!

It is passed from one person to the next, usually by way of airborne droplets from a sneeze. You can also pick it up if your hands are dirty (with the virus) and you touch your eyes or nose. Catching a cold has nothing to do with the temperature outside, or whether or not your hair is wet.