GW's Scribbles

GW’s Scribbles back up and running

After over 4 years, I’m actually doing another posting!

Of course, those of you who know me know that I’ve actually got 7 blogs going for different purposes. But I’ve had some random things I’ve wanted to blog about and so I figured I’d get this going again. Stay tuned for some sporadic posts in the coming days/weeks/months…

English Bible History

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

The fascinating story of how we got the Bible in its present form actually starts thousands of years ago…

1980′s Commercials

http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/

There are about 30 downloadable commercials from the 1980′s. It brought back fond memories of singing along with the California Raisins!

Download a 12 sided calendar

http://www.ii.uib.no/~arntzen/kalender/
Very cool!

Button Maker

http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/

I’m sure you’ve seen various rectangle images that show some combination of RSS standards, like this:

Well, if you visit the site above, you can make your own buttons, with your own colours, with your own words. Just to test it, I put my name in and moved the separator bar:

Keep in mind that the buttons are only 80 x 15 pixels, so if the words are too long, it won’t fit. For example, I could barely fit Merry Christmas into a button:

MSN Messenger Web Version

http://webmessenger.msn.com/

I don’t really use Messenger that much, but it is useful to talk with some of the younger people at Church, so I usually have it running. Within the last week or so MSN has launched a web only version.

Feel free to add me to your contacts list:

Daddy, How was I born?

Chris sent me this…

Cyrus says: Daddy, how was I born?

Dad says: Ah, my son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!
Well, you see your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a cyber-cafe.
We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a blessed little Pop-Up appeared and said: You’ve Got Male!
And that’s the story, Virus…I mean Cyrus.

Search and enjoy: 7 search toolbars reviewed

Check out this review by CNet:

If you’re still going to the Google or Yahoo home page to do Web searches, you’re missing half the fun–and you’re unnecessarily exerting your fingers. Toolbar plug-ins for Microsoft Internet Explorer–and now Firefox–make it easy and fast to look up Web references without having to type in another URL.

DVDs For Sale

I’ve went through my collection of DVDs and grabbed a bunch that I haven’t watched for a while to sell (all prices in CDN$). Let me know if you are interested.

• The Simpsons: The Complete First Season ($20)
• The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season ($20)
• What Women Want ($5)
• Nine Months ($5)
• Mickey Blue Eyes ($5)
• The Mask ($5)
• EDtv ($5)

MicroSolutions RoadStor

MicroSolutions RoadStor is a multi-function device that acts as a portable CD Writer to allow you to back up your digital media cards while away from your computer. It also gives the user the ability to view a slideshow of their images on a television screen, view DVD movies, and listen to CD’s or MP3′s. While connected to your computer, the device is a USB 2.0 external CD-Writer/DVD Player.

Read the full review at http://www.pcin.net/help/hardware/roadstor.php