During this long Fourth of July weekend, many of us will be enjoying barbecues, family, friends, and fireworks. Many churches held annual church picnics and will tomorrow hold a special patriotic church service.
It never tires me to be thankful for our troops who serve this country protecting us for those who would do us harm. We have much to be thankful for and much gratitude to show for their service.
One way you can do that is to donate a Military BibleStick. Continue reading »
Pictures are a quintessential activity at Christmas. Parents capture snapshots of their children’s expressions as they open their presents. Others may take pictures of the newly fallen snow on Christmas day. Even more will be taking group pictures of family and friends while enjoying Christmas dinner together.
Most folks will probably not check twice to see if their GPS equipped digital camera or GPS equipped mobile phone is geotagging their photos. What is geotagging? It is adding the GPS location to your picture’s metadata. Doesn’t sound bad to you? Well, for a well connected, internet savvy thief, it’s called “cybercasing.”
Imagine you are visiting Aunt Matilda’s for Christmas. Home is some 60 miles away. Uncle Frank decides to don his famous Christmas sweater much to Aunt Matilda’s horror. You pull out that shiny new iPhone or Android device and snap away. You then quickly post it to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and perhaps your own blog. If geotagging is on, you’ve given away your current location, not to mention the pictures you took for fun earlier that morning and loaded to the cloud also included your home’s location. A potential holiday disaster in the making.
Sure, it maybe unlikely that you would be targeted at all, but it can happen. Even a celebrity accidentally disclosed his home address and announced he was off to work for the day. An open invitation to those would-be evil-doers. One website even went as far as posting what homes were unoccupied by their geotags, although they have stopped after bringing attention to this issue.
So what to do? Use common sense when posting pictures to social networking sites and blogs and turn off geotagging. Tell a friend or a neighbor to keep an eye on your home while you are gone. This way the only holiday disaster that you’ll experience is Uncle Frank’s Christmas sweater.
“In five minutes, I’m going to tell you everything you need to know to never forget something important again.GTD, OmniFocus, Things, Day Planners, etc, etc. They all have four fatal flaws.
- They all require management
- They all require that you spend time reviewing what’s there
- They are all too slow
- They all suffer from bloat
After trying just about everything under the sun (including the things mentioned above) for years, I finally found a system that works for most people (I’ve talked to quite a few people that do the same thing I do) and I’ve proven it for over 8 years.
I don’t have a fancy name for it. I haven’t written a book about it. I’m not a productivity “expert.” I’m just some guy who did trial and error until I found something that really works. And the system isn’t revolutionary or new. It’s just very simple and easy.
Here’s what I do…”
Since moving to a Quicken, MS Money, etc. like program for your computer, have you missed the old days of entering items in your checkbook register? You were so consistent with writing in each item. You diligently entered the item right on the spot holding up the customers before. Now, you stuff the receipt into your pocket, telling yourself to remind yourself to enter that receipt in once you get home. A couple days later, your wife shows you a clump of paper that rode thru the laundry. Thinking back you “remind” yourself of a receipt that you missed.
Sound familiar? It does to me. Continue reading »
Being a father and in the ministry brings lots of ties my way. I have had basketball ties, Spider-man ties, plaid ties, and swirly ties. Thankfully I have never been given a pink tie. **shudder**
Instructables has a awesome homemade tie made of wood. A wooden tie you say? Think about it. No more tie flapping in the wind. No more tie going to the cleaners as food just comes off with no leftovers. Tired of tying full Windsor knots or re-tying over and over. Then this is the tie you are looking for.
There is one caveat. You have to make the tie by hand. It looks to take some work, probably a weekend or your Monday off. The step by step instructions should help you craft this amazing tie. Just imagine you could color each piece differently. If you’re handy with a knife you could etch a design or two. Criss-cross the grains for each piece. Oh the possibilities are endless.