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funny song. from garth - Boot Scootin' Boogie

Out in the country
Past the city limits sign
Well there's a honky tonk
Near the county line
The joint starts jumpin' every night
When the sun goes down
They got whiskey, women music and smoke
It's where all the cowboy folk
Go to boot scootin' boogie

I've got a good job
I work hard for my money
When it's quittin' time
I hit the door runnin'
I fire up my pickup truck
And let the horses run
I go flyin' down the highway
To that hide-a-way
Stuck out in the woods
To do the boot scootin' boogie

Yeah, heel, toe, docie do
Come on baby, let's go boot scootin'
Oh cadillac, blackjack, baby meet me out back
We're gonna boogie
Oh, get down, turn around, go to town
Boot scootin' boogie

The bartender asks me
Says, "son what'll it be?"
I want a shot at that redhead yonder
Lookin' at me
The dance floor's hoppin'
And it's hotter than the fourth of july
I see outloaws, inlaws, crooks and straights
All out makin' it shake
Doin' the boot scootin' boogie

Yeah, heel, toe, docie do
Come on baby, let's go boot scootin'
Oh cadillac, blackjack, baby meet me out back
We're gonna boogie
Oh, get down, turn around, go to town
Boot scootin' boogie

found out that changing language code (locale) in Vista could make the virtual server stop working because it can't no longer read the store any more. I thought I lost all my servers. Good thing it wasn't permanent. The easy fix is to switch back to the original locale.

Two weeks ago at Frontline worship, the praise leader share from Eph 5:19 "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord"

He said that has learned that worship is more than directed toward God, there is also a horizontal component.

He encouraged us to sing the songs too to people around us. It is more than me and God. I don't know what is going on - how that there is something special when we sing we also mean to say those words in the songs to people next to us. The praise leader thinks it does.

I watched Wurthering Heights on PBS Masterpiece. Very good show. I read this long time ago. Many good lines. I'm not sure how many parts there are. PBS only showed it for one hour. I think it is at a halfway point.

Chris Tomlin has done it again. This is an awesome song. What's a good song to get me up in the morning. This song got struck in my head some mornings when I was lying half awake. After waking up, all I could remenbered was "I will rise, I will rise when he call me name." Indeed was a good song to get me up.

Today I finally found out the song and the listen in it completely. It shook me and gave me goosebumps because the lyric is so eerie and at the same so praise & prayerful. Truly recommended as best song the this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yvfso4Q8xg

Is there a way to use dpkg without sudo and install the package in my home directory?

Interesting question. I thought it is possible to do but apparently is not.

Why can't it create a virtualized environment and tricking a program in thinking that it is installed in the system folders (similar to how Windows Vista is doing for legacy programs that required write access on the Programs Files folder)?

Windows Vista virtual directory can be confusing. I experienced this first hand of a program thought they updated their files to the Programs Files folder in the C drive but instead they were placed in Programs Files directory in the user profile. The program behavior of access the files is strange. Sometimes it use the program files stored at the user directory, and other time it uses the version that is stored in the system directory. So there are cases where right files are used and cases where the wrong files are being used.

This song from Switchfoot has been on my mind through out the weekend. It can be a bit scary when going to a Christian conference. This year was new and there were people I have never seen before. There were some who were way younger than me and some older than me. But it was okay because we were one big family. I sang this song in my mind when I was being uncomfortable.
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This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Since installing vmserver 2.0 not long ago, I now figured out how to have a full screen console. Before I was using 800x600 and the experience wasn't as good. Now it is so cool to run the display at maximun resolution. And it was not long to figure out how set the resolution in the guest system.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 guest. Actually Xbuntu but that is same except using xfce. Now also Ubuntu 9.4 has released, I'm in the process of doing a dist upgrade.

One complaint I have for the vmserver is that it can't not do incremental update. When I tell it to check for update, it opened up the webpage for me to download the entire vmserver. So to update the server to 2.0.1, I have to download the 500 MB file. Not fun at all. Who would do update if they have to install the whole thing all over.

GLOW: having white hot affectionate joy.

??? - to be number 1 no matter what the cost to my own life or others.

vanity: doing things for no apparent reason.
vain conceit: extremely high view of oneself

there seems to be proofs that when doing things for others will resulted in more satisfaction than doing things for self.

"look out for the number 1" vs considering others better than yourself.

unity: is the result of blah, blah, Christians blah, blah... "resulting" blah blah.. nonchristian . ..

Someone asked me where is Ruth Steak house while I was on my way home. I said I don't know but it maybe located at the Fairfax Corner.

http://www.ruthschris.com/Steak-House/3503/Fairfax

Recently rediscovered that I actually like her songs. e.g. "On my knee"

Passion. They are produced awesome worship songs. Just discovered them. Charlie Hall's stuff are wonderful.

Matthew West - History
Aaron Shust - Give it all away
Nichole Norderman - Holy
Rush of Fools - Undo
Jeremy Camp - Right Here
Todd Agnew - Grace like Rain
Jennifer Knapp - Sing Alleuia
Kutless - Strong Tower
Point of Grace - Day By Day
Selah - Bless the broken Road

(Mark Schultz - I Am) *my sister noted the something fishy in this song so it is not included.

Keith & Kristyn Getty - never heard of them before but some noted of their doctrinal content in their songs. Can we, can we sing their songs?

1. filed my tax.
2. pink is coming to Mason.

Have I written about this before? I may have.

Phillips, Craig, & Dean (PCD) was charged of believing in a doctrine call The Oneness God, that is, they don't believe God exists in three persons eternally. God has been the Father, then Jesus, and now the Holy Spirit.

They replied back by affirming to the Apostle Creed and that they do believe in the trinity.

Eric Nielsen then countered back that PCD is not being genuine in their replies but instead was more of a cover up their track and that they had not embraced the historical understanding of the trinity. If they really believe the Oneness God, they should just be plain about it.

Personally I think Eric Nielsen's article is very helpful to able for distinguishing the two sets of beliefs.

PCD seems to say that their doctrine is different but not too different, else they would have come out and have affirmed what Eric Nielsen said about the trinity is true and their previous understanding was wrong. Instead, they said something along the line of don't argue over the small stuff.

I think what Nielsen differentiated is huge.

The doctrine of Trinity was there for a reason. It is not something we can understand how it is true. It is something to accept as true that God is both one and exists in three persons. We accept it because that idea is taught in the Bible. The theologians who first explained the concept of trinity, specifically chose the term person. It is more than just a manifestation.

There is problem when we de-emphasize the concept of person, and use a different way to make it easy for us to understand how God could still be one. You would lose the concept of trinity.

http://vintage.aomin.org/PCD.html

GE came up a way to cram more data onto a CD like disc that could store over 500GB, about 20 Blu-ray discs or 100 DVD* [1]. They may have a name for already, but i think they should give it a fancy name such as GED.

The article of Information Week mentioned that it is GE will market it to archiving company first before the general public. The reason I think so is because of the cost. It probably costs more than buying 20 Blu-ray discs, making it too expensive for what most people would be willing to buy. Below I took the prices from my favorite store.

Cost:
CD-RW with slim Jewel cases 10 for $14; $1.40 each
CD-R with slim Jewel cases 10 for $8; $0.80 each
DVD+R with slim Jewel cases; 10 for $12; $1.20 each
DVD-R with slim Jewel cases; 10 for $12; $1.20 each
DVD+RW with slim Jewel cases; 10 for $18; $1.80 each
DVD-RW with slim Jewel cases; 10 for $14; $1.40 each
Blu-ray-R (believe to come with a case); 1 for $20; **
GE disc; not on market; estimate selling more than $400 each.

You can probably buy cheaper if purchasing them in bulk of 100 discs. I chose 10 disk to make it a better comparison with Blu-ray and the GE disc since it is hard to imagine buying a bulk of 100 of those.

Blu-ray is still new. The price is selling way above a DVD disc. It will come down a next few years when it becomes more common.

Also an issue with price, how many times I made mistakes when burning CD, but I am not too regretful of tossing it away when that happens. My home computer asks too many questions whenever I burn a CD, and I have to refigure each time what to do by trial-and-error.

But can you imagine if you make a mistaking burning a Blu-ray disc or a GE disc? It would be one expensive mistake. Not something to play around with.

[1]http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217200278

* One Blu-Ray disc is equiv to 5 DVDs.
** $20 just for a blank disc would make buying a Blu-ray movie not that expensive. Generally a movie on Blu-ray is selling about $30. Maybe the movie studios got a discount with Sony on waiving the licensing fee for Blu-ray.

I didn't know that DVD has the +R and -R. -R was the first version and so a more common and is supported by the older players. +R is the newer version and is better but may not be supported in the older DVD players.

I've heard of Windows 2003 Resource Kit from our system admin but hasn't had the need of it.

Apparently it is a collection of some great tools. One of them is ROBOCOPY. It has nothing to do with Robocop, but it sure is useful. It is an improved version of the XCOPY (I first heard of it when using Windows XP), which is an improved version of the familiar old COPY command (like in DOS).

It is a great tool use for making copy of files and you can use it to write your own backup script. By the way, Robocopy is included in Vista. Yea! I have another great tool.

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Also don't you hate when you have to switch to a newer or another computer that you have to set up all your preferences again? Do you know that Microsoft provides free tool for migrating a user profile? Again this is something my admin knew, but I didn't know. Try USMT, which can be download from Microsoft website. I believe they have an improved version for Windows Vista but it maybe goes by a different name though.

Wow. VeggieTales made it into Wow 1999.
His Cheeseburger - VeggieTales

Many media programs have a place to rate a song using an absolute rating scale (1-5), with 5 being the best.

I wonder if there an alternate way of rating a song.

How would you set up a system where you can compare a set of five songs at a time, and rank them which one being better. Then apply this to the rest of the collection to find the ranking of each song. I remember doing something like this in statistics but don't remember how to do this.

The Bible Study at around 5:30AM on the radio station (The Family Friendly Station) is very good today. Normally I sleep through it, but a few times, they really woke me up. I don't think it was the fire and brimstone sermon though. Funny how I set the alarm to that. If it is boring I can have an excuse for not waking up for work.

This morning was a continuation on the Easter sharing - The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24). The point was about understanding the Bible. The disciples have all facts before them. They can even tell Jesus everything (who they didn't recognize during the conversation) like Jesus is a prophet of great in word and deeds and that a they thought he was the One. But that he was crucified. Though that some women earlier in the day claimed that he was alive again. But when some went to tomb and they couldn't see him.

They just couldn't connect the dots of what it means.

Then Jesus explained to them that all scriptures being from the Old Testament is about him.

They point was: That the key in understand all scripture is seeing how Jesus relate to the passage.

(for comparison - Here is someone who does not know Jesus but was compelled to read every word of what he considers is the Bible "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz)

I have been buying WOW Hits CDs for years. Just missing the year 1999 and 2002. Since I didn't listen to Christian radio during the early years, their songs were not so familiar to me to be justify buying those CDs.

It has only been the past few days that I have pulled out my collections. One thing I found that I can get tire after listen them repeatedly. I wonder why I don't get tire why I listen to the radio which play about the same kind of songs too.

I like to listen to the radio more than my collection. It requires less effort to arrange the songs. Maybe it is just me that I don't prefer the computer to arrange them for me. My computer somehow can't get the right mood as the station does.

I thank God for the Family Friendly Radio in my area. I enjoy listen to it all day.

I miss JJ & Alvino heat.

In him we live, move and have our being. He is God the Creator as well God redeemer. Every day creation praises him.

I amazed at Google way of designing their server. They are smart and steps ahead of other people. One thing was their computer run on 12 volt only instead of AC. This is so smart because it operates just like a laptop. Whenever you could lose power from the outlet, the battery will continue to supply them. The battery is much smaller and cheaper and last much longer than those UPS that supplies AC power.

Actually thinking back, computer always run on DC but no one thought of putting a DC battery inside the server. It is just so smart to have a battery there. Because I personally experienced power failures either caused by thunder storm or accidentally unplugged the wrong cable.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?tag=nl.e703

CADIE1

Nothing new in the last episode, but it was a good summary of the entire series covering from last season to this season.

What's a world. A world that you don't have worry about losing your job. And you only take few seconds to go to work to collect your paycheck. Then spend the rest of the time playing, shopping, visiting friends, or racing. What a life. And the things you buy don't rust. You can be as materialistic as it allows. And best of all everyone look young and beautiful.

caught up to real time.

Tenth Avenue North - By Your Side

Break another psychological record. We (those who are watching) are at Naruto Shippuden 100th episode. Yup I'm at real time with Naruto. This was achieved back in December. Since then I've been following it weekly. Sad to say it is still not so with Bleach, I am still not at real time yet though am very close. Maybe another week...

Back to Naruto, ep 100 isn't as good as ep 99, but it has a good reminder for me. Naruto has always exceeded people expectation (Maybe they have too low of one). He is the "Number 1 Suprise ninja", a characteristic that helps him to survive unbeatable odds.

He is considered by others and his teacher to be the bottom of the class, but Takashi Sensei took him on for further ninja training and put him in a team along with two of the best in the class: Sasuke and Sakura. Takashi, consider one of the best teacher, is known to never pass a student.

What I think make Naruto unique in that team is he would hold dear to certain teaching. Some of them he came up himself, and other he picked up along the way. He calls them his "Way of Ninja". His way of ninja is what he sees as truth. In this regards, he is unusual in how he learns and masters things because once he holds on to it he won't let go.

That what broughtt to mind as I watched this week episode, that as Christians we too hold on to truth. It is truth that we actively live out everyday. It is truth that helps us when we face doubts.

For me this week truth was: "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace..." My teacher kept on asking what does this means to me. I said it means what it said it means. It is unadorning and in plain sight. What else can it means? Yet it is this truth we live. Then every moment of life is turned and redicted to this thought, in Christ we have forgiveness. No where else. And when I took the trash out, the trash soiled my pants, it brought to mind that in Christ we have redemption. Sins is something unpleasant and stinky. It corrupts. But in Christ we have restoration. I thank God that every moment in life can remind me of this.

My teacher shared of an analogy of why does God do such a thing i.e. in saving us. He shared to one of his students, that God is delighted in him as if he is God's drumkit. He gets pleasure out of playing it. We as God's drumkit to make beautiful sound. Of course that student likes to play the drum.

Appendix: In Ep 100 Naruto's way of Ninja: "home is where someone who is thinking of you and that you can return to." Naruto came to a crisis when he doubted whether this is really a truth or not. Sakura being a good friend reaffirmed him. This will lead to next week big battle. He resolved to do something on his own.

apem - all pick easy mode

r - random
sd - ?

saw this IKEA ads on a bus today. "Change begins at home."


also while searching for the picture I found this fun site for creating your own Oval Office from IKEA funiture.
http://www.embracechange09.com/

Finally, I could say I reached the 200th episode. It is about a few episodes away from catching up to "real time". Amazing that was all I was thinking about on a Sunday.

vmware is a bit slow. If I am facing a choice to install a machine on vmware or on the actual server, I most likely would choose the actual hardware than preferring a virtual server. They to stress of many benefits of vmware. Easy, simple, total control on the hardware. easy relocation, shut off, pause, restart the server with just a click and having state saved. Also it is easy to wipe clean a system and rebuilt it over. Adding and removing hardware is easy.

Now how do you have a full screen console? My virtual screen is too small.

Finally I can host a vmware server on a vista machine. I tried doing this last year but the previous version did not supported Vista but the current Oct 2008 version does. Setting up was easy. Interface is esay to use. You can customize the amount of ram and drives it can use. I am on my way to add an Ubuntu image. Maybe I can install several server too when I have time. If things work out and will relocate my home server onto vmware. It is pretty cool to set up a small network and test stuff out.

Matthew West - The motion. I just heard this the first time - thankful for wgts.

Wow. I have never seen anything like this before. Jose looked like Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean. He had a tumor that covered most of his face that made him looked very unusual. He was a spectacle to the town people. The biggest obstacle with him getting a surgery was his refusal to have blood transfusion because he was a Jehovah witness.

http://elfninosmom.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/the-man-without-a-face/

I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. 1 Cor. 4:14-15 (ESV)

-that is so true. Why are there not many fathers?
-Father implies he has children
-children are born after hearing the gospel. They are born in Christ
-Father raises his children. Requires lot of love & nurture & care. Correcting them when they are wrong, disciplining them, encouraging them. Greatly concern about his children spiritual growth.
-He has a great responsibility to help them to conform ... . Teaching them truth is one of his main tasks.
-Paul is showing his fatherly authority. Father is a position that comes with authority as well. There are those who try to upsurp the power. They are called arrogant people; those who think they are high and mighty (according to the Chinese translation).

"Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?" What a tough choice this father give to his children as a disciplining method. It goes to show a father with all the options available for him to use.

-Tam asked: Was Paul successful with his message? Yes.

update - children imitate their father.

Both are good episodes.

Clannad - finally he reconciled with his father.

Toradora - "hopefully he is the only who get hurt" Very good story through out.

http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/186370-disable-vista-live-system-file.html

This episode of clannad is so emotional. Finally a good episode in a long time. Got me crying like in first season when Fuko disappears from Tomoyo.

Toradora - kind of weird ending. Ryuji got dump. It has to be this way and he didn't even know all three of them love him. Now what will he going to do. He needs to do some DTR.

As an aside, Last Sunday FL sermon was very good - about having clarity in a relationship and setting boundary specifically spiritual boundary (something I've never heard before, but makes sense after I heard it).

i love lenny too! Will they? Will they going to do it on Feb-14? i'm crossing my finger.
http://loldebian.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/debian-there-is-always-something-wrong/

I do find it a bit more enjoyable when I read Paul's writing. I think his writing is full of wisdom. He deals with practical matters. ( Read more... )

I watched another 20 episodes but this time it took me two weeks to do it. Some say this still a lot of anime watching but it is about a third of the time I used to spend on them. I still enjoyed it a lot.
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I got to hand it to Paul for being such a good writer. He uses so many analogies just in this short passage alone and his logic so good. I like the one about the cow. He uses rhetorical question: Was God really after the cow, here?

Paul argues that he is an apostle like others and has the right to be treated as other apostles. As he builds his case, I could imagine that the Corinthians has no way to back out from helping Paul and feel ashamed that they haven't done so sooner. Then he goes on to show that there is a bigger cause he is after. Silly Corinthians he is not after food at all. It is immaterial how he is treated because his focus is trying to convert everyone around him to Christ. He is so focus on the task. It's only natural that his readers after reading would follow his example of he has lived all for the gospel.

1 Cor 9:23 凡 我 所 行 的 ， 都 是 為 福 音 的 緣 故 ， 為 要 與 人 同 得 這 福 音 的 好 處 。

My most widely used tools for past several days have been a Chinese Bible [1,2], Chinese-English dictionary[3] and a notepad[4]. All are readily available anywhere with an access to the internet.

[1]http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor%209;&version=22;
[2]http://www.audiotreasure.com/mp3/Cantonese/07_1-corinthians/
[3]http://usa.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
[4]http://www.openoffice.org/

I know about free bible (text) existed for a long time and rarer still free audio. I even received a free CD from a Lutheran organization before but because of high compression in MP3 format (resulted in poor audio quality) and boring reading, I quickly lost interest. But today I stumbled upon a good reading and free as well from Audio Treasure. I'm most surprised that they have them in Cantonese. They read from Union Version. I did a test with 1 Corinthians chapter 1, and throughly enjoyed it.

I use BibleTime (KDE) but there are many other free Bible software for Windows users out there, for example e-sword, j-sword, etc. They too have free Bibles in many versions and languages.

I'm happy they have ESV for free. For that I'm an ESV fan (but though my pastor uses ESV kinda influence the rest of us to switch too).

http://www.audiotreasure.com/mp3/Cantonese/

:I go to church sometimes. Which church do you go?
:I stay at home but attend church by watching TV.
:You don't come any more?
:Not really. I'm trying the internet church.
:Do they have internet small group too?
:Probably.