Category Goin’ to Town

Improving your Christian blog

Adrian Warnock had the opportunity to attend Tim Challies‘ blog seminar recently, and he kindly posted some of the notes from that conference for our benefit. Here are some highlights: Evangelism – the nature of blogs results in people gravitating…

New design

I’m pleased to present to you the new design for Notes from the Trail. Let me know what you think, and what you’d like to see in the future. For a designer who’s also a cheapo, it was hard to…

Jott Review

I first learned about Jott in a comment over at the Swerve blog in a post about Twitter. You may have seen that post yesterday. I was intrigued by the idea that by calling a free phone number and leaving…

Ways to use your Twitter

There’s a very practical and innovative use for SMS and RSS combo services like Twitter. Swing by the Swerve blog and see how one church is using it for ministry purposes. You can also check in the right sidebar for…

If it ain’t broke…

As we say here in south Arkansas, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. However, that approach has led to more than one massive mistake by a refusal to understand and embrace change. Researchers at Stanford (among others) are also…

Kool-Aid cleans?

Lifehacker posts this startling tip from one of Carolyn’s favorite magazines, Real Simple: use Kool-Aid to clean your dishwasher! Go read the post (and make sure you use the right flavor!) By the way, if the Real Simple site becomes…

You Google? (update!)

I love this from Brian Glass: Now that Google has taken over the world and has become the next Microsoft, it’s about time for me to start hating it and eradicate it from my life. But for some reason I…

Browse faster

I appreciated the web browser review over at Macintalk Design. It pits the different web browsers available for the Mac up against one another in one category: speed. While I think features are an important part of my browser of…