the life and times of emijayne

By Robert H. Schuller “I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” -Psalm 4:8 Some time back, I had the privilege of having lunch with the president of one of the largest aerospace companies. Following lunch, he took me on a tour of his [...]

By Jim Penner “Assuredly I (Jesus) say to you, I have not found such a great faith; not even in Israel.” -Matthew 8:10 The words in Matthew 8:10 were spoken by Jesus to a soldier who had come to Christ and asked for his servant to be healed. The soldier had just said to Jesus [...]

By Jim Penner “And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” -Luke 12:25 To my dear grandmother, anyone who spent too much time worrying was instantly called a worrywart. I remember as a teenager asking my grandmother why the term worrywart? As with most of her answers, it came with [...]

By Sheila Schuller Coleman “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” -I Corinthians 13:7 We hear messages from those we love. Sometimes they say something that hurts our feelings. Sometimes they don’t say the things we long to hear and that, likewise, hurts our feelings – these messages heard [...]

Just saw today’s quote from BratFactor: We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell Not that I should listen to this “follow your bliss” guy.. but this is interestingly how I have been feeling lately.

At work we have multiple servers, mostly Windows, but a few ‘nix boxes.. the main ‘nix box I tend to use is running our Intranet. The problem I am having now is the need to set up links on the Intranet to documents on a Windows server.

Oh.. and while I’m on the subject, there is this great set of Power Toys that integrate nicely with Windows.  Granted, some or all of these things have most likely become a part of Vista and Win7, but for those of us still behind the times, they make life a little easier. The one I [...]

This Bulk Rename Utility for Windows is just.. pure awesomeness.  I had about 25 albums of pictures that needed to be renamed before uploading to our photo gallery at work.  Once I decided on a format that I wanted to use.. it took me only about 30 minutes to go through them all.. well.. minus [...]

I have around 10 drupal installations for various work projects.  I love them.  Drupal *is* the awesomeness. As awesome as Drupal is, using a WYSIWYG editing module makes life so much easier for posts and pages.  My choice is fckeditor.  It has everything I need and could want.. it has the perfect auto exceptions (for putting limited or [...]

Wow.  Truly brilliant article from Whitney Hess:  See For Yourself: About the Power of Observing. At our core, interaction designers are anthropologists. We design interactions between people and people, and people and things. There is only one way to better understand people and better anticipate how they behave: observe. The user experience profession is pretty [...]