IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC USERS

In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates.

Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Mactopia. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.

Let’s celebrate with pomp and circumstance. IE/mac is a terrible non-web-standard browser and Microsoft knows that. May it rest in peace and never rise again.

Check out 43things.com and 43places.com, two web 2.0 applications built with Ruby on Rails.

ABC ran a story on college students and spirituality. In case you missed the story when it aired on Good Morning America on Wednesday (12/6), you can check it out here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1375842&page=1

I used to think that college students were just unspiritual, because they didn’t all believe the exact same things I do. But the contemporary culture of our day, a postmodern world, is very open to different kinds of religious experiences. Perhaps the right way to talk to college students about Christ today isn’t what it was before. Looking at a bunch of empirical data to come to a universal absolute systemized worldview worked well before, but there is a different starting point today.

I think the biggest error we can assume today is that if people don’t respond to our methods that they are bad, especially if they worked before. We tell ourselves that we haven’t changed but they have, so it’s their fault. Yet I believe there is a great opportunity today to get beneath mere intellectual faith and share our real life experience with Christ. We need to share what Christ really means to our heart, not just a bunch of propositions.

I believe that if Christians stop resenting the culture and begin understanding it, we will make a big impact on society and how the culture is shaped during the next hundred years. But my hope is mixed with hopelessness. It seems like so many of us are resistant (myself included for many years) to framing our beliefs in a new world. Brothers and sisters, if we do not begin redeeming the culture, our faith will continue to become irrelevant and effectually disappear. And by the way, redeeming the culture does not mean making it modern again.

I welcome comments, and this will not be the last post on this subject.

Ok, so a few weeks ago, Kelly and I were making plans to come up north for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. We got our plane tickets to fly into Philadelphia and then planned to get a rental car for the week. As I looked at car rental agencies, Hertz’s site had a Mustang for about $100 more than the lowest price. We thought about renting it and then decided not to in favor of economy.

When we flew in to Philadelphia and got to the Hertz counter, the lady at the desk asked “Is it okay to give you a Mustang?” I looked around to see if there were hidden cameras around. Yeah… So, as I left the counter and went outside to meet Kelly, she asked me “are we going to drive that Mustang over there?” Yes, I said matter of factly. She looked at me confused and curious, waiting for me to crack a smile. “Are you serious?” So, I put the luggage in the trunk.

Our fantasy that week came to pass as we drove the Mustang down to the Cheseapeke Bay and then through the hills of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We stopped at the Herr’s Foods factory for a chip and pretzel making tour and then headed to my parents’ for Thanksgiving. It seemed so superficial, but that car brought so much fun and excitement. I can’t imagine that week without the Mustang.

Vvvvroom, vrooom