community, education, grade school, parenting, thoughts, web stuff

Christians Parenting Through Public School

A year and a half ago I was scouring the internet for resources to help us as we prepared for Silas to enter kindergarten. I was specifically looking for help from believing parents who utilized their public school while intentionally shepherding their child’s heart towards Christ and imparting a distinctly Biblical worldview to their child.… Read More Christians Parenting Through Public School

crossroad baptist, media, stephen, web stuff

CBC Website Gets a New Look

The new website for Crossroad Baptist Church is now active. Stephen revamped the old website by switching from Joomla to WordPress, which gives us a more informative and attractive online presence. He customized the Ecclesia WordPress theme and updated the church’s information. The site includes photos, tweets, sermons, and a video presentation of the gospel.… Read More CBC Website Gets a New Look

media, web stuff

3D morphable faces

This is really cool. Some German scientists have created a 3D face modeling program that allows them to map any face to a digital model and then manipulate facial expressions and other details. There’s a good bit of technical jargon at the beginning, but later they illustrate by manipulating some actual famous faces.

computing, web stuff

Dial with your iPod

“Here’s”:http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Pro_Pod_Power_Tips/363 a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using playlist files. It’s actually quite intuitive know that I think about it, but it’s something… Read More Dial with your iPod

links, web stuff

BBC gets the wrong Guy

The BBC made a “big mistake”:http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770 when they accidentally interviewed Congolese immigrant and taxi driver Guy Goma in place of IT expert Guy Kewney on-air last week. The look on the wrong Guy’s face is priceless, but he gamely attempts to answer the questions anyway. Make sure to check out the video–it’s hilarious.