to accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. we must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. ~ Alexis Carrel

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. All that counts is the obedience that marks the life you have been given." ~ rlp [dws.] 10:06:54 PM    comment []

Counting my many blessings this evening: Jo Ann (22 years my wife), Ben, Conner, Abbi ... each of which came in and blessed me without even knowing it in the last few minutes. I am a lucky person. [dws.] 10:06:23 PM    comment []

The Ride of My Life The Three Sisters Real Live Preacher [dws.] 10:06:06 PM    comment []

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. ~ Richard Feynman

Friday, April 4, 2003

The Real Evil  As always, The Preacher says it best. [347.com || Andy's World] 12:01:51 AM    comment []

Eudora 5.2.1 released. Among the changes to this popular email client, this version fixes a crash when running a script from the Scripts menu. [AppleScript Info] [dws.] 12:01:23 AM    comment []

New Rendezvous Products. Many interesting new products have come out recently which let you take advantage of Mac OS X's built-in Rendezvous features. Here are some of them. [MacMegasite] [dws.] 12:00:59 AM    comment []

Most IT Experts Do Not Trust Microsoft Products. A Forrester Research poll has shown that 75% of major IT security experts do not think Microsoft's products are secure. [WebmasterWorld] [dws.] 12:00:54 AM    comment []

QuickTime 6.1.1 Released. QuickTime 6.1.1 is now available via the Software Update panel as a 19.4M download (restart required). It delivers important bug fixes to MPEG-4 streaming. [MacMegasite] [dws.] 12:00:41 AM    comment []

the advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. ~ Pierre Charron

Thursday, April 3, 2003

Albert Einstein. "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." [Quotes of the Day] [dws.] 11:58:50 PM    comment []

never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Good luck to ideal form. [dws.] 7:55:38 AM    comment []

Ben Stein. "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.] 7:55:10 AM    comment []

Be Remarkable In all things you do With all people you meet With your goals, your accomplishments, and your desires As John pointed out, life is indeed short and you never know when you're going to be reminded of that simple fact. [347.com || Andy's World] [dws.] 7:55:04 AM    comment []

Keep This in Mind While You Watch the Grammys..... Who Gets Hurt When You Pirate Music? "There's a case study in the NYDaily News -- apparently a propos nothing but this Sunday's Grammy Awards -- that breaks down the cash flow of a hypothetical hit album by a hypothetical rock quartet. It illustrates all the people that get paid along the food chain, including some odd recoupable record company expenses, like a 25 percent 'packaging deduction' and a 15 percent 'free goods charge,' off the top, most of which the label keeps. The bottom line is that a gold record (500,000 copies) selling at $16.98 will gross roughly $8.5 million, of which each member of the hypothetical quartet will pocket about $40,000. (The case study doesn't take songwriting royalties into account.) So for every $16.98 album you rip, you're costing a performing artist about 34 cents, and the lawyers, producers and labels about $16.64." [Over the Edge] As Will says, "Kind of makes you want to just toss $0.34, or a share of Covad, in the guitar case of a starving artist, doesn't it?" [The Shifted Librarian] [dws.] 7:54:50 AM    comment []

a good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. ~ Lord Jeffery

Saturday, November 9, 2002

The PQI 6in1 USB Flash Card Reader/Writer that I bought at Fry's for $30 is now on sale for $20 at Fry's !!!. It works without drivers on OSX and Windows ME/XP. On my PowerBook with OSX 10.2.1 it just works as expected. I have been quite happy with this reader. [dws.] 9:04:50 AM    comment []

Eudora 5.2 ships today, By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac [dws.] 9:04:22 AM    comment []

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TiBooks hit 1GHz, get a SuperDrive. Apple refreshed its laptop line today as expected, with a new 1GHz processor and SuperDrive in the top-of-the-line TiBook and a $200 price drop on all iBook models that help bring the entry-level 700 MHz iBook to $999. The refreshed professional PowerBook includes two TiBooks: the $2,999 high-end machine with 1 GHz processor and DVD burning SuperDrive, as well as a 867 MHz TiBook with 1MB of Level 3 cache and a DVD/CDRW Combo drive selling for $2,299. The iBook line has more modest updates, with each model seeing slightly faster G3 processors and the $200 price drop across the line. The $1,599 high-end iBook has an 800 MHz G3 processor coupled with the 14.1-inch LCD, 256MB Ram, a 30GB hard drive and a Combo DVD-ROM/CDRW drive. At $1,299, the mid-range iBook also runs at 800 MHz with a 12.1-inch LCD, 128MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, and Combo drive. The $999 model boosts a 700 MHz processor, a 12.1-inch LCD, 20GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive. All three iBook models have 512K of level 2 cache and an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics card, with 32MB RAM on the mid-range and high-end models. [Mac Net Journal] [dws.] 9:03:38 AM    comment []

"One Who Was Able", by John Stanley Browning Ware: 1928-2002 [dws.] 9:02:49 AM    comment []

Restricting to MAC Address To Avoid Using WEP May Not Be Too Secure [dws.] 9:02:36 AM    comment []

Lois McMaster Bujold. "His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.] 9:02:35 AM    comment []

FireWireDirect debuts 4x DVD-R drive [The Macintosh News Network] [dws.] 9:02:31 AM    comment []

my weblog is my global business card. ~ John Robb

Saturday, November 2, 2002

Faith is the translation of difficulty into the language and action of hope. Faith receives, endures and transforms unattractive, even devastating, episodes and passages by the confidence that one's life has meaning that is grander than any awesome adversary. The substances of that meaning reside within us and our circumstances, but its fuller realization races beyond us. Wiser travelers than I report that faith's potential pulses within us, but its source emanates from beyond us. It rises from springs of reality that are deeper than we are deep and reaches towards images of hope that we have not yet envisioned. ~ Browning Ware, Diary of a Modern Pilgrim [dws.] 1:25:40 AM    comment []

From today's celebration of Browning Ware: Words from Suzanne Ware Luper Words from Camille Ware Kress "Browning used short sentences to paint big pictures.", Milton Cunningham "His enemies were not ... his ... enemies", Milton Cunningham "My illness has not been in vain, for in this time I have learned to pray.", Browning Ware, Oct 2002, as quoted by Jerry Brock [dws.] 1:25:29 AM    comment []

"Not Answers, but The Answerer", by Browning Ware "New Address: Cabin in the High Country", by Joe Phelps "Reflections on Browning Ware", by Larry Bethune "One Who Was Able", by John Stanley Browning Ware: 1928-2002 1:25:19 AM    comment []

Dr. Browning Worth Ware, Pastor Emeritus at First Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, died on October 29, 2002. Dr. Ware graduated from Baylor University in 1950 and received his Doctorate in Theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1961, and was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard Divinity School in 1984. He served pastorates in Satin, Denton, Hubbard, Cleburne, Beaumont and retired in 1996 from First Baptist in Austin. A celebration of his life will be held at First Baptist Church Austin, 901 Trinity, on November 1 at 3pm. Internment will follow in the Texas State Cemetery, 909 Navasota. Visitation will be Thursday October 31 from 4-6pm at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 North Lamar. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the First Baptist Church Austin,Caritas or Hospice Austin. Dr. Ware is survived by his wife Juanell; daughters Suzanne Luper of Wake Forest, NC and Camille Kress of Austin, TX; grandchildren Jenny Corrine Luper, Max Roberts Luper, Caleb Browning Kress, and Molly Mayer Kress; brothers Weston Ware and Broadman Ware; and former wife Dr. Corinne Roberts Ware. His son Brooks Browning Ware, a brother Conwell (Connie) Ware, and his parents J. W. and Myrtle Barber Ware predeceased him. From First Baptist Church Austin website [dws.] 1:25:08 AM    comment []

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~ Plutarch

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Browning Ware: 1928-2002 Austin American Statesman, 10-30-2002 Ware was "among the tall timbers of our community ..." ~ Rev. Bob Landry "Our worst circumstances may be God's best opportunity to bring new meaning to our lives." ~ Browning Ware, May 2002 [dws.] 3:39:43 PM    comment []

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) [dws.] 3:39:17 PM    comment []