Does Leap Year Day have any significance to you? I’m not talking about the scientific relevance of the day, or to the unfortunate few who happen to celebrate birthdays today. Was today all that different from any other Friday or any other day this month? It seems like it should have been. After all, it only comes once every four years! Did you do anything special?
I can’t say that I put on my Leap Year Day hat or sang Leap Year Day carols today. I didn’t eat a fancy holiday meal or spend time with family. There wasn’t a parade or a big sporting event. Still, I’ve been anticipating today. I find that the mere notion of February 29 nearly always gets me thinking about my past and my future. What was I doing four years ago? What will I be doing four year from now?
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Saturday night was the second annual Valentine’s Day Banquet planned and hosted by the men in the Navigators ministry here at FSU. I have to admit that when the students first started planning this thing I thought it would be awfully difficult to top last year’s event. But I have to say that they did a great job making this year unique. I’m really proud of all of our guys. Let me take you through the evening.
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The first weekend of this month I drove down to Hudson, Florida with a car full of students to the Navigators state-wide spring conference. Students from UF, USF and UCF joined us at Word of Life Camp, bringing the total number of people close to 130. Each year we only have one of these so it’s a pretty big deal. As you can see from the photo above FSU brought a pretty large group. Our guest speaker was Drew Frazer, Nav staff at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He spent the weekend asking us the question, “How big is your God?” He challenged our students to consider the God talked about in the Bible, the phenomenal power He has and what He has been able to do through people who trusted Him, verses our view of who He is and what He is capable of doing. Do we box God in, believing that He’s not capable of doing whatever He wants?
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Last November the FSU Navigators staff team went to the National Staff Conference out in St Louis. Each day I was there I got to hear amazing speakers as well as meet a lot of very cool people from all over the country. During some of the talks I really wished that the students I work with and my supporters could hear what I was hearing, learn what I was learning.
Sunday night I stumbled upon an unexpected delight on iTunes. Turns out the Navigators turned each of the plenary sessions at the National Staff Conference into a video podcast. The podcast includes talks from Bill Tell, Eddie Broussard, Alan Andrews and Mike Treneer. There are also some audio-only episodes of interviews with different people, including an interview with Ben and Melissa Nugent who are staff at the University of Florida.
This is worth checking out. If you click here iTunes will open (you’ll need to have that installed on your computer) and you’ll be taken straight to the download page.
Shaquille O’Neal is no longer a member of the Miami Heat. He’s been traded to the Phoenix Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. I haven’t been following this NBA season too closely, in part because the Heat have been terrible and in part because my schedule hasn’t allowed to me watch a single game this season. But I’m a Heat fan and have been one since I was in elementary school. I know Shaq’s one of the greatest to ever play the game, but I’m certainly not sad to see him go. He’s lost a step or two, he’s out of shape, and he has a monster contact that was going to prevent the team from signing any sort of free agent for the next two seasons. I know he helped make the Heat relevant again, and I know he played a part in the 2006 title, but you can’t make today’s decisions based on yesterday’s winning formula.
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I’ve been meaning to write a post about Apple’s pretty new MacBook Air, but I was so underwhelmed by its capabilities that I haven’t found the inspiration to do so yet. But today’s announcement from Apple is far more interesting.
Apple has very quietly added larger capacity versions of both the iPhone and iPod Touch to their store as of today. The iPhone is now available in a 16GB flavor and the iPod Touch has a new 32GB iteration. Both sell for $500. Why is this a big deal? And why release these larger versions now? Three words: software development kit (SDK).
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To update my (very few) regular readers who actually traverse my website and don’t read these words in an RSS feed, email subscription or Facebook note, I have managed to fix the Articles page on my site. As you may recall, back over Christmas break I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 and ended up breaking a handful of my plugins. The Articles plugin by Alex King was one of them.
Two folks in the WP community helped me get this fixed. Andy Cowl first posted this fix on the WP support forum. But that only got me so far, since I couldn’t figure out how to apply the fix properly. But I found that Stephen Cronin had blogged about the fix over on his site. So I asked him for help and he sent me the edited file. Big props to both of you.
My Articles page still looks a little goofy (font formating) but at least it works. I encourage you to check it out. It’s where I have all of my favorite and most popular posts listed.
