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Technology update
There are a few interesting tech things going on right now and I just thought I would list them.
- First, Christian has pointed out a great little program named Launchy that does something called “Keystroke Launching”. It is very handy and runs on both Windows and Linux. It is funny how we are using fewer and fewer programs that run in only one of the two environments. Our expectation is moving toward compatibility with both operating systems.
- The volcano computer is moving right along. Evan brought me the GPS which he now has wired so that it can receive power from a USB port while sending positional information from the GPS to a serial port. Very cool. I am working on a code snippet for him that receives the information from the serial port and parses it.
- At the request of our buddy, Troy, we have started using phplist on our website to manage the daily mailings of Kelly’s Betty Blonde comic strip.
- I am in the process of writing a Python based program to accumulate and post Kelly’s comic strip. Right now, it takes me about ten minutes per strip using GIMP. That is down from about twenty minutes before Christian showed me David’s Batch Processor.
- We want to set up a computer on the network to serve our homeschool schedules, reports, etc, via a wiki. I am going to give that task to Christian. The way I would really like to do it is set up both a web server for the wiki and a Virtual Private Network so that we can run some programs on the server if necessary.
- Christian is deciding which technology he is going to use to prepare his Spike the Cactus graphic novel (comic book). We do not know whether he will colorize the comic on the computer or not, but he needs to both find programs to process the images and accumulate them into pages and then to display them on the web.
April 13, 2004 (no. 3)
April 14, 2004 (no. 1)
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I Cor. 15:23-28 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.


