Floppy Farewell

Sony has announced that they will be discontinuing the 3.5″ floppy disks. Which led me to one thought:

Sony was still producing 3.5″ floppy disks????

Seriously, Apple discontinued carry floppy disks drives in 1998 with the iMac G3. Remember those? I remember when they first came out, I was working at the Princeton Review and the Tech/Design guy there said that the floppy disk was an old technology and was going to be replaced in the near future. I thought he was crazy. And yet, he Steve Jobs was right.

I always admired Apple for giving consumers what Apple felt they needed, not what the consumer thought they wanted. For every hit (no floppy, USB, MagSafe adapter, iSight cameras, iPod, iPhone), there have been some misses too (Firewire 800, Express Card, Apple TV).

Makes me wonder, if we are being a church that gives people that which God says they need and not just giving them what they want.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (II Timothy 4:3, NIV)

Tweekly Tweets for 2010-02-20

• Lent starts tomorrow. Gonna have a nice swig of Diet Coke tonight. #
• The growth of the fruit of the Spirit is natural but not passive. #

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Tweekly Tweets for 2010-02-13

• Richie scored his first goal in soccer today!! #
• Why does it bother me so much that Shockey caught the go-ahead TD? #
• Superbowl party: 50 people watching in the fellowship hall with games, food and good times. Best. Superbowl party. Ever. #
• Eli would never have thrown that pick. Just sayin' #
• My prediction 41-35, Colts. What's yours??? #
• 41-35, Peyton over Brees. #

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Tweekly Tweets for 2010-02-06

• is celebrating my wife's birthday today! #
• Why it's great to be a Mets fan… http://3.ly/jxCk #
• thinks that it's hilarious when Chloe says "alien" 'cause it sounds like "idiot". #

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Tweekly Tweets for 2010-01-30

• had a dream that I shot and killed an intruder. I guess that's what happens when u watch Dateline NBC and Training Day before u go to sleep. #
• I've gotten 3 attempts to change my Google Password in the last 4 days. Should I be worried? #
• Finally has become a 'regular' on Friday mornings. Waitress heated my cup with hot water while I waited for my table. Nice! #
• Careful: it's slippery out. #
• Snow?!? #
• think that the best thing that Apple did was leak that their price was "under $1000" so that the price of $499-$829 seems like a bargain! #
• The staggering numbers from Haiti – http://bit.ly/92v2Dy #cnn #
• will be sharing my LifeStory to 10 other pastors while the Mac Tablet will be unveiled. I should follow engadget's liveblog under the table. #
• I just don't see anyway that the Saints stop Manning and the Colts. Indy won't have 6 fumbles and 5 turnovers! #
• Let's see how much of the SuperBowl talk still centers on Brett Favre. #
• Brett Favre sighting!!! #
• By the way, I predict 34-31, Saints. #
• Predicted Colts 31 Jets 13. Just sayin'. #

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Tweekly Tweets for 2010-01-23

• Richie's prayer last night: "Thank you God that U gave us different skin colors. Please don't let the whites kill Martin Luther again" Hmmmm #
• Thoughts from Helping @charitywater with their Haiti donations yesterday. http://www.richleeblessed.com/2010/01/20/helping-charitywater/ #
• Amen! RT @keithlaw: In the #mets' best move of the offseason, the Giants re-signed Bengie Molina. #
• In a Penske truck, driving to Charity:Water to load up supplies for a plane bound for Haiti. #
• Is thankful our church community was able to donate so many supplies to the Haiti victims. Now pray that God blesses those that receive 'em! #
• Oh jeez… Here it comes. Turning off facebook for a few hours. #
• Hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahhahahhahahahah… #

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What Do You Read?

I’m sitting here in a diner waiting for the staff to arrive for our weekly staff meeting and I’ve been catching up on my blogroll through NetNewsWire’s iPhone app (a must!). And I thought I would try posting from my iPhone to see how it works out.

So I thought I would throw this out there: what websites, blogs, newssources do you read everyday or at least regularly? I will be posting some of my favorite sources soon in a other post.

Sound off in the comments!

Helping Charity:Water

Yesterday, I got the chance to be able to volunteer my time at Charity:Water to help them pack, organize and load donated supplies into trucks that would be loaded onto a plane bound for Partners in Health located on the ground in Haiti. A few thoughts from that day.

• When you give people the opportunity to help out, it’s amazing what people will do. I heard the founder of Charity:Water say that they were only anticipating 1 truck worth of stuff, however, 4 trucks were needed in total. And that was only after they stopped taking donations.
• Also, three different people really stuck out in mind. The first was the UPS worker that made a delivery to the loading dock that we were using. She decided that she would take her lunch break and helped out for an hour.
• The second was a guy from the janitorial service at the building that saw what we were doing and decided to help out as well.
• The third, and most somber, was a security guy from the building, who said that his nephew and his nephew’s son and daughter were caught in the earthquake and that they have not been heard from. It reminded me what we were doing.
• I am pretty obsessed with efficiency. And I couldn’t help but think about how INefficient it was to take water that was bottled and placed in a box and shrink wrapped, stack those boxes of bottles on a wood palette, tape those boxes together, shrink wrap them, load them into a truck to load them onto a plane. Not to mention how much $$ would be used to ship the weight of that water on the truck and on the plane. I kept thinking is this really the best way for us to help them? And that is the moment that I realized what a HUGE commodity H20 is worldwide. “Liquid Gold” as the charity:water people put it.

Here are some pictures from the stuff we did that I was able to snap with my iPhone.

Tweekly Tweets for 2010-01-16

• Predicts: Cards, Colts, Vikes, Bolts. #
• GoogleGroups deleted our church email group. Trying to create another one, but they flagged us b/c we're trying 2 add too many people. #fail #
• Safari or Chrome…? Thoughts? #
• Staff meeting this morning, hot pot tonight. #
• Lord, please help the Haitians. #
• @OGOchoCinco Take a look at http://www.onedayswages.org. 100% of profits go to help! in reply to OGOchoCinco #
• Shared my LifeStory with our leadership training group. It's awesome to be able to experience Gods grace again. #
• @wonki78 explaining the spiritual significance of Little Mermaid to Chloe: "Chloe this is a powerful representation––" Chloe: "No, it's not" #
• McGwire comes clean. Meanwhile, somewhere Roger Clemens just kicked a 9 year-old in the shins. #
• @sam1025 good seeing u today. Didn't say hi. in reply to sam1025 #
• Thought the Giants were eliminated from playoff contention, but their secondary apparently took the field for Green Bay. #
• RT @jonahkeri: Yup, even in a game that has nothing to do with him, the announcers start talking about Brett Favre. #
• What's the opposite of 'money'? Is it 'un-money'? As in "Donovan McNabb is so 'un-money' #

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Tweekly Tweets for 2010-01-09

• One huge difference in this game: Shane Graham & Jay Feely. #
• I love how Tiki Barber is the 'chick-sideline-reporter' #tool #
• is wondering why it took Disney so long to finally have a black leading lady. And she spends most of the movie as a frog. Eeesh. #
• Picks: Bengals, Eagles, Cards, Ravens. #
• 1st I root for the phils in the WS. Now, I root for the Eagles? Hating the Yankees and Dallas makes me do crazy stuff… Go (gulp) Eagles! #
• @RickWarren Dorothy Day: "You love God as much as the person you love least." in reply to RickWarren #
• I don't remember a big game like that that was so interesting, then so boring, then so interesting, and then so boring again. #
• If the timeout/shovelpass/INT/TD didn't happen, it would have been a very different final 3 minutes. Just sayin'. #
• Herbie just said they hadn't given up a sack. Ballgame. #
• This is getting interesting… #
• You call a timeout to run a shovel pass?!?!?! #
• Okay. Now I'm worries. Where's Colt? #
• That Mark Ingram kid is good. A lot better than he was as a Giants receiver in the 80's. #
• RT @lancearmstrong: They say, "defense wins games". We're about to find out. Hook 'em. #
• UT has got to let this kid throw the ball. #
• This game is all Texas! Someone tell 'Bama this is the Championship Game. #
• What DOES a pastor do during the week? Well, here's the answer: http://3.ly/whatwedo #
• Hook 'em!! #
• If I were a dog I wouldn't want to poop in this frigid weather either. #
• @pogue Can you please blog about VZ FIOS customer service? Who's gonna endure an hour long phone call with 3 departments for a $5.99 refund? #
• Cant believe the Jets are gonna make the playoffs and the Giants won't. #
• Worship involves a rhthym of revelation and response: God graciously reveals himself and we faithfully respond. ~ Gary Parrett #
• Newark Terminal C shut down. No flights taking off from Term C. Man got past security. #
• Appropriate showing for the last game of the Bill Sheridan era. #fail #

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