As many of you may know, I just returned from a week-long vacation through south-central and south-eastern Missouri. Rather than give a play-by-play of the trip, I’m choosing to tell the story in the form of web links to the many places that were a part of our trip. You can also see some pictures through my wife Becky’s facebook page and on her flickr album for the trip.
Missouri vacation links
June 21st, 2010I’m not as successful as you think
April 28th, 2010It’s come to my attention that I often give folks the impression that I’m good at everything, that I excel at any undertaking I embark upon. Let me assure you here and now that this is truly not the case. Not only that, but I’m feeling a bit confessional at the moment, so I would like to share with you (and the world) some things I’m not good at and consistently find difficult no matter how hard I try. Keep Reading »
Authenticity, Identity, and Social Media
March 18th, 2010From time to time I also post on Already and Not Yet, a blog written by several young adult leaders from the Church of the Brethren tradition. This is cross-posted from that site, so I’ve closed comments on this post. Please post any comments on that site instead. Thanks!
How do we as young adults and church leaders engage with social media sites? While this might seem like an innocent enough question at first, with seemingly easy answers (I use site x not site y, etc.) in actuality it’s much more complex.
I was recently at a local blogging workshop where they were discussing institutional involvement in social media (aka social networking). The presenter was speaking out of his experience working with colleges and universities that are trying to be more active in connecting with prospectives, students, and alumni using current and emerging social media sites. One example that he gave was how the chancellor of our regional campus of Indiana University (IU East) is using Twitter to make a personal connection with people, in addition to several other IU East-related Twitter feeds.
Immediately I started thinking of how different this is from how I use social media on a regular basis. Keep Reading »
Chocolate Granola Bars Recipe
March 15th, 2010
A couple weeks ago I ran across this excellent recipe on Wit & Whistle for homemade granola bars. Of course, being the culinary tinkerer that I am, I couldn’t simply leave well enough alone and adapted it to my tastes (CHOCOLATE!) and what I had on hand. While I was at it I also made some handy conversions from volumetric to weight measurements for geeky folks like me who like to use kitchen scales. The result: easy-to-make relatively healthy absolute deliciousness!
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QuickPost: Android Blogs
February 28th, 2010While I still intend on writing a longer feature-length post chronicling my adventures in Android apps, here is a quick listing of some of the blogs I’ve been reading since I jumped on the Android bandwagon.
Android Central – Part of The Smartphone Experts network, the same folks who run CrackBerry.com, which was one of my favorite Blackberry blogs, and The iPhone Blog. Like several of these blogs, Android Central also runs a store with accessories.
AndroidSPIN – AndroidSPIN appeals to the slightly more technical user, with more coverage of the latest unofficial Android ROMs.
Android and Me - This blog easily wins the Android blog beauty contest, both for its main site and its mobile site. In addition to news, they seem to have a good proportion of original content, such as app reviews and a great tutorial on making your Wordpress blog more iPhone and Android friendly (something I hope to do soon!)
Droid Life – This is definitely the oddball of my list. It’s much less polished than the rest, and focuses exclusively on the Motorola Droid. Despite it being a little less robust than the larger sites, this one has lots of excellent Droid-specific content like the Android 2.1 apps (with multi-touch) that have been ported to the Droid. It can get a bit technical at times, with information on “rooting” and so on, but still a useful site to have in my RSS reader.
I also keep an eye on Android-related posts at Lifehacker (one of my favorite blogs in general) and occasionally browse the Android-tagged posts on Engadget.
Any other Android users out there have favorite blogs (or other Android sites) you frequent? Any you’ve found completely useless? I’d love to hear about them in the comments.
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