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Oh drool! Apple’s ’07 WWDC delivers

Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference began today, and Steve Jobs unveiled more details and previews of Apple’s new operating system, Leopard! Aaaaah. Check out the indepth synopsis over at MacZealots. In addition, you can watch demo videos of all kinds…

Jun 11, 2007
Jeff Noble
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Have you died yet?

“For one who had died has been set free from sin.” (Romans 6.7) In chapters 5-7 of Romans, the apostle Paul engages the Jewish mind in some heady debate, taking them to task for elevating the law to their master…

Jun 11, 2007
Jeff Noble
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More strange body part experiences

I hesitate to recount all the strange body part experiences we’ve had here at the Noble’s household. Ranging from butt boils, ear hair, and broken arms to vitiligo, shingles, and biscuit boogers, we’ve had them all. (The biscuit boogers were…

Jun 10, 2007
Jeff Noble
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Stopping WordPress spam, part 2

I had posted about WordPress spam earlier, but I wanted to update you. I’ve found that Spam Karma 2 works GREAT, but it was also preventing legitimate comments from being posted over at MonticelloLive, so I’ve deactivated it for the…

Jun 10, 2007
Jeff Noble

Bloggers’ Choice Awards

The Bloggers’ Choice Awards are beginning nominations, and whether you vote for my blog or not is irrelevant. Go make yourself heard! It would be awesome to have a fine representation of local blogs on the nominations list. I’d appreciate…

Jun 9, 2007
Jeff Noble

Advice for movie-goers with a moral compass

Because Jenny has found yet another site for us all to be addicted to – in Flixster – I found this post by a recent blog I’ve stumbled across as timely and relevant. The main question is, “How do you…

Lucky times

While Sam was playing his last baseball game tonight (which they lost 12-10), I started dreaming about a Reeses Blast from Sonic. After the game, Adelyn and I went to Sonic. Carolyn and Sam took off for Ferndale for the…

Stopping WordPress spam

Every blog that I use WordPress on has been hit hard by spam the last three days. I don’t know what it is or why the normally reliable Akismet is not catching them for me. Here’s what I’ve done to…

Fussin’ about cussin’

I think the current furor began earlier this year when it began to circulate that John Piper, theologian par excellent, used “profanity” in a message at Passion 07. I wrote about it here. Then there’s the “cussin’ pastor,” Mark Driscoll…