Three years ago, Kelly and I took a two-week Survey of the Old Testament class. What we didn’t realize before we stepped in to the classroom was that we were headed for a radical transformation of our faith. We both considered ourselves evangelical Christians and had beliefs similar to most American evangelicals.

There were many things we learned during those two weeks with Dr. Richard Pratt, but the one thing that stuck with us the most was how different his view on the final outcome of the world is and therefore our role as citizens of the world.

This video of N.T. Wright’s views seems to jive with what Dr. Pratt said that summer. You’ll have to watch it for yourself.

Deke McClelland. What a crazy dude! Thanks for being so eccentric!

When Kelly and I moved in to our house in Columbus, OH, we said we would eventually do some remodeling on our kitchen. Two years later we are finally getting ready to do the work. We are getting Jason Bally of Belt and Bally Builders to do the remodeling work.

We are going to replace our counters with an Avonite surface. Avonite is currently offering a deal where they throw in a free stainless steel sink for free, although the seamless sinks are pretty cool. We picked out a brushed chrome faucet and soap dispenser set by Kohler and are getting carbonized strand bamboo for the flooring. The floor will extend in to our dining room area and also be in the initial entryway to our house.

Speakers for the main sessions of RailsConf 2008 are available now. A number of Columbus/Cincinnati Rubyists are showing: Jim Weirich, Joe O’Brien, Aaron Bedra, Dan Manges. I wish I could go. Oh well, maybe next year

On another note, Blip TV has a number of the keynotes from RailsConf 2007 online.

1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as root. Change every occurrence of gutsy to hardy.
   sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4. Check that Hardy was installed correctly
   sudo dpkg –configure -a
5. Reboot and Test the Upgrade
   sudo lsb_release -a

Hopefully, you should see something like

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy


My friend, Keith, posted this video on his blog. I had to echo it, because it looks like a good find. The youtube video has 24 segments and is intended to be shared.

Please post your thoughts as comments. I’ll start this conversation with a question.

How can the world hope to continue sustaining life while thousands upon thousands of corporations each independently fulfill their own agendas by taking the world’s resources with no heed for the collective future outcome of the global community?

Here’s our first family photo of the four of us. Fantastic.