ExpanDrive looks like a great, easy-to-use Mac tool for file servers. Check out the AppStorm review. Hopefully, I’ll win a free copy from their competition!

“Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

Po Bronson (1964 – ), American journalist and author

When printing, I see all those different paper sizes in the print dialog. Here’s a list of the the common terms & sizes.

From what I found, there are 3 ways to connect the Xbox to your network. (from easiest to hardest)

1. Wireless using Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter
• Overview of wireless networking for Xbox 360
• There are 2 adapters & I would ask at a store which to pick:
• ~ $50 Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter MN740 (don’t use the install disk)
• ~ $100  Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter
2. More thoughts on Xbox 360 Wireless Networking
3. Powerline Ethernet – using the house powerlines for ethernet connection
• ~$150 Corinex GameNet – Powerline Ethernet product
4. Ethernet connection
• First, you have to run ethernet cables from your router to your Xbox.
• Xbox Connections through gateway

Then when you are connected, and it doesn’t work, you can Troubleshoot Your Xbox Live Connection

Next Level Guitar – Beginner Lessons

Free Guitar Lessons @ JustinGuitar.com

iVideo Songs: Learn to play popular songs

VideoTabs: Learn How To Play

iPlayMusic.com: video podcasts of 35 free guitar lessons for your iPod

How to Read Guitar Tablature

After you open the document, hit Shift+F5 to zip straight back to the location of the last change you made. Handy! Find this and a few other great Word tips over at the Web Worker Daily weblog.

And here are some more Word tip & template sites I’ve found useful:

• How to turn off annoying MS Word Features
  
• Typography Tip: Change Line Spacing
• Docvert: Convert Word to Open Standards Formats
• Over 250 Free Microsoft Office Templates & Documents
• Art of Office

Thanks to the A New Mac Tip Everyday blog I learned a great mac shortcut.

From any mac browser, hit “Command-L” and your browser’s current address link is selected and you are ready to type the address of the website you want to visit.

Thanks to everyone who shares their thoughts, opinions and revelations here. I have learned a great deal, but I still struggle trying to follow God’s law. I’ve talked about my problem with legalism many times. I just can’t figure it out.

Maybe you can help me by giving some advice on how to follow these specific laws.

1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. My daughter is 13 and she has a bad attitude. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness – Lev. 15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality (Lev. 18:22). I don’t agree. Can you settle this?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Speaking of
   Lev. 21:20, I had a vasectomy several years ago. Are testicles considered damaged if it was by choice or only if by accident or defect?
9. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die? I believe i can use a razor to shave my beard, but not electric clippers. Am I wrong?
10. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
11. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them (Lev. 24:10-16)? Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know many of you are as focused on following the law as I am. Some of you more so and have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help.

Thank you Sunday Papers for the eye-opening chuckle.

Links & tips I’ve found and used:

• Declutter Your Desk & DIY under-desk gadget mount pics on using pegboard & ties to hang all the gadgets
• The Cordless Workspace managing those cords
• Ikea Cable Basket
  
• DIY Recharging Station
• Belkin Concealed Surge Protector

Break time

Originally uploaded by jstvnrbl.

Morgan & I went last week with 35 others from Farmer’s Branch Church of Christ to help rebuild New Orleans.

This was very eye opening for me. I had no idea there was so much damage over such a huge area.

I was in a group that worked gutting a house on Saturday. It was hard work and dirty and tons of fun. I got rid of alot of frustration with my crowbar! On Sunday we helped hang some drywall for a very nice couple.

There is so much work to do. If you want to help, the Carrollton Avenue church of Christ’s Operation Nehemiah” is focused on coordinating and helping the work.

I plan on going back!