There are two kinds of light–the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
– James Thurber
Updates from September, 2005
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light
luke
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iTunes
luke
lol, I don’t have many love songs in my iTunes, but it just had the funniest playlist on shuffle it played 5 tragic love songs in a row! lol, funny…
i can’t wait till my family get back!! dad-tomorrow, mum&jess-thurs, sal-30th Oct
Cheers
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God, smite me!
luke
I really liked this out of my quiet time today, very good analogy, funny though!
“Did you know that the word smith in silversmith comes from the old English word smite? Silversmiths are very accomplished smiters. So is God. He knows the weight of the hammer and the force of the blow required to produce in you Christ-like character. No one yanks the hammer out of His hand and says, ‘Go easy on that silver; you have pounded it enough!’ No, He buffets the metal until He’s finished with it. Some silversmiths keep polishing until they can see their face in the finished product. When will God stop with you? When He sees His nature and His likeness reflected in you”
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Untouchable
luke
Some things are just untouchable I guess, it doesn’t make you want them less though!
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luke
It seems that I have a problem… once I have seen the best of something, I just cant settle for anything else.
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luke
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
– David Brin
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luke
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
– Sam Levenson
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miracles
luke
God, what can I say, is great!!
I went to the doctor yesterday and found out that I had the flu which got my immune system down and therefore I then got a viral infection of the laberynth (inner ear), but the doctor said that it is an amazingly fast recovery. I am still feeling a little bit dizzy, but I am soooooo much better (even got a PB this morning for the time trial).
Thank the Lord,
and thank you to all those who prayed for me!Cheers,
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mr know it all
luke
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
– Oscar Wilde
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Random Play Messes with our Heads
luke
The Apple Blog » Random Play Messes with our Heads:
“I came across a very interesting article on Wired that explains the general dismay people have with the seeming lack of randomness that results from random playlists. Dan Goodin (the writer) explains some of the lengths he’s gone to in order to achieve random bliss – going so far as to touch on Real Player, MusicMatch, Winamp, and concludes with iTunes. He even tried running a playlist through randomizing algorithms in different music players…talk about dedication.It gets interesting when he speaks with a mathematician (Jeff Lait, creator of randomm3u) who explains the real problem. It’s all in our head. The fact is, that algorithms can make a list completely randomized – but that resulting random list may not fit with what we EXPECT out of that randomization. Interesting, but makes sense.
Dan concludes that iTunes is the current leader of Randomization however. Why? (Those of you answering, “Because it’s Apple!” would be wrong. Mostly.) Because Apple (ok, you were partially correct) was insightful enough to include Smart Playlists. As most of you know, playlists can be created by random, with any number of stipulations applied to create that perfect list of songs.
So next time your iPod Shuffle is disappointing you, and you yell out loud, “Life is random, my apple!” remember that it’s your noggin that’s really the dissapointment…”
