February 29 will be my last day at Trinity Bible College. We’re finally moving out of Ellendale, and going to my hometown, Glendive, MT. I’ve accepted a position at BOSS Office Products as a Computer/Network Technician where I’ll essentially be a computer tech and consultant for small businesses and schools and such. I’m a bit sad to be leaving my job here, but I’m a lot excited for this new opportunity and can’t wait until March.
Category: Shane
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openid
Started looking into a (sort of) new technology lately called openID. It allows you to use an existing account to login to a new site, instead of creating new accounts everywhere. Example: I’m at someone’s blog that only allows registered users to comment. I can enter my openID url, it asks me for my yahoo (or aol, or any other openID provider) credentials, and then I’m allowed in, without having to create a new account. It’s not widely adopted, but it’s pretty slick for the places that use it.
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scooter
It’s a boy! On Wednesday we adopted an eight month old puppy. He’s a lab-dachshund cross, and as cute as ever. He’s also amazingly well behaved. He doesn’t bark, even at other dogs that are barking their heads off. His only ‘weakness’ is that he loves to meet new people, so whenever we pass by someone outside, he alway tries to run towards them. Oh, and he ate a dead frozen bird the first time I took him for a walk. We tried giving him a potty mat just in case while we were gone. He didn’t potty, but he chewed the mat to shreds. He did find my slippers once too, but they escaped with no more damage than some puppy drool. Without further adieu, I give you Scooter:
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scatter
That’s about how my brain feels right now. We’ve been looking for a job for some time now (since May of 2007). After Thanksgiving, we were starting to think perhaps I should finish my Computer Science degree somewhere. The likely suspects were Evangel University and NDSU. Now, there’s another piece of the puzzle thrown out there (I think that God is is just toying with me at this point). At any rate, there’s a job opening in my home town that seems quite promising. I’m applying for it, but it’s almost too good to be true. And you know what they say about things that seem too good to be true. Well, I don’t think ‘they’ (whoever ‘they’ are) are always right, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.
I’ve also been delving back into the area of Bible study software. My favorite has always been Bibleworks, but just recently, I gave gnomesword another try. I’m not sure it’s a replacement for BW, but it sure is pretty good. You can even download some freely available content from biblegateway.com and crosswalk.com into it if you’re clever enough (or find scripts written by someone else who is even more clever). At any rate, it’s a nice interface for browsing, but the greek and hebrew lexicon integration of Bibleworks makes it the ‘king of the hill’. Maybe someday I’ll join the gnome sword team, and help them integrate cool things like that… -
quintuplets
Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything on here, and even longer since there’s been new life in my fish tanks. Well, today marks the end of both streaks. I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but sometime in the last few weeks one of my ghost shrimp had her babies. There have been plenty before I’m sure, since I’ve got 4 females (and had more) and they have been pregnant a lot. This time, however, some of them have survived long enough for me to notice them. They are probably only a few weeks old, but it’s hard to say, as I’ve never seen the babies before, and I can’t seem to find much info online about the size they should be. One is a bit larger than the others, which may mean it was born first, or it might just be female. At any rate, most of them are about a half inch long, with that one being perhaps five-eighths of an inch. They’re really hard to find, and it’s taken me almost an entire day to confirm that there are indeed five of them.
