At the end of each week I look back and wonder where all the time has gone? Sooner or later I realize that not nearly enough of my days were spent in prayer. Maybe that is why I started posting a prayer on Friday evenings? For tonight I thought I would share a quote from a book that I have been skimming. I would say reading, but sadly the only books I seem to find time to read cover to cover these days are usually works of fiction (and even then I have a pile of half-reads collecting dust). Gotta blame teh inernets (j/k).

Prayer is above all about who God is and what he wants. By praying in his name, we pray for his sake—not on his behalf, neither to rescue him nor to inform him. Rather, by being found in him in Christ, we pray in him, walking the paths of his completed work that we do not yet see completed. The more intense we are about faith and hope in his completed work, the more we are taken into its sweep, even though we pray on the unseen side of all his answers. Informed fully by his Word, living by faith, rooted in love and buoyed by hope, our praying and outpouring are as indivisible as Spirit and truth. We begin with praise and continue all of our praying in thanksgiving, within which we raise our petitions and intercessions, whether of joy, longing or grief.

— Harold M. Best, Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts, pp. 99, 100

It started with selling computers sans operating systems.  Now Dell is planning to sell PC’s and laptops with Linux pre-installed. An interesting twist is that Dell believes that Linux users will require less from the company by way of technical support.

…the majority of survey respondents said that existing community-based support forums would meet their technical support needs. So while Dell is hammering out the details of which Linux distribution(s) to use and how to support it/them, it seems most users don’t really need vendor help.

I would think that if Linux requesters are savvy enough to rely on their peers for tech support, then they could probably save themselves a few bucks and load any of the popular Linux distros themselves. In other words, it appears to me that Dell is taking square aim at “gnubies” (first time Linux users). Hopefully this a big step forward in terms of making Linux more mainstream.

I wish I had further investigated Ext2 and Ext3 partitioning on Windows before setting up my hard drive with a FAT32 partition. I would have still had a drive letter in XP, but in Ubuntu my shared files could have been in the /home partition (a simpler solution).  My initial concern stemmed from reports of bugginess when reading/writing to Ext2/3 partitions in Windows, but frankly my FAT32 partition has lived up to its namesake — slow (e.g., when transferring music to my iPod).

In honor of Yellow Pollen Season (via), I thought it would be appropriate to highlight Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art. Auto graffiti has come a long way since “wash me.”

I am trying to come up with a new nickname to use for things like forums, web services and social networking sites (e.g., Twitter). One that I have used in the past is a combination of my name and some numbers.  Another one is simply ”transformatum” (e.g., del.icio.us). However, there several others that I basically have a hard time remembering.

What I am looking for is something that is cool sounding (like ‘frotzed’), unique (so no one else will use it) and not linked to my name or domain names (making it flexible for the future). Do you a) think this is a good idea and b) have any suggestions for how to choose one?