A new experiment brewing at Mozilla labs. It’s called Ubiquity. Check it out.

Introducing Ubiquity

An experiment into connecting the Web with language.

It Doesn’t Have to be This Way

You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them.

This kind of clunky, time-consuming interaction is common on the Web. Mashups help in some cases but they are static, require Web development skills, and are largely site-centric rather than user-centric.

It’s even worse on mobile devices, where limited capability and fidelity makes this onerous or nearly impossible.

Most people do not have an easy way to manage the vast resources of the Web to simplify their task at hand. For the most part they are left trundling between web sites, performing common tasks resulting in frustration and wasted time.

Scientists are still trying to figure out how the earth was created.

Tests clear way for “Big Bang” experiment

Hey I have some inside information that might help out. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Gen 1:1) This is the very first line in the bible.

four days late is going to be playing with Casting Crowns on September 20th in Dalton, GA. Check out four days late’s blog and their big announcement.

Forgiveness is a topic that I have been meaning to write about far a long time now.  I am slow to forgive people.  In the past it has been a defense mechanism I used to protect myself.  This was back in the day when I thought I was in control and I was trying to be a self made person.  I used to think if I would shun those that hurt or did me wrong I wouldn’t have to deal with the hurt.  Now I have been forgiven by my Lord for all of my transgressions.  If the Lord can forgive me for the crap I have done I can forgive others for things they might have done.  Not to mention it’s a command from God.  There is no telling how many wonderful people I might have hurt myself or missed a chance to get to know because I was unable to love and forgive them.  Lets see what the bible has to say about this.

Matthew 6

14For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Matthew 18

21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?”

22Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.^[f]

23“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents^[g] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26“The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.^[h] He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

29“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’

30“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

Sign ups will finish this Sunday on the 24th of Aug for the online small group. If you are interested in being a part of the group please go to www.cornerstonebuzz.org and click the sign up link on the right or you can go directly to the online small group site and register for an account and I will send you the enrollment key.

This group is open to all who want to join so I hope to see you there.

I watched the interview of Obama and McCain by Rick Warren last night.  They held the civil forum at the Saddleback church.  I’m not sure what I was expecting but I did enjoy the questions Rick asked.  Some of them included:

• Name 3 leaders that have shaped you or those that you listen to.
• What does it look like to be a Christian in everyday life?
• Define marriage.
• What do you think about stem cell research?
• At what point do a baby in the mothers womb gain human rights?
• When is someone considered rich?
• Does evil exist?

Obama danced around the issues on several of the questions and McCain was very direct and straight forward with his answers.  What can I say? “Normal politics.”

I will say this though it appeared that both the candidates have read Rick’s book because they both answered the question about what a christian looks like today with “It’s not about me.”  I wonder if they only read the first paragraph or did they read the whole book?

I dislike politics so this will probably be my last post about this.  The only reason I bring it up now is because I was totally fascinated with the idea of having a forum with two political leaders at a church.  All in all it was a great forum.

Did you get a chance to watch it?  What did you think?

I just found a new blog started by a couple of great people, Jason and Meredith Martin!  They just got started so add them to your readers and keep up with the progress as their blog grows.

A Minute with the Martins