Life Thoughts TodayBlessed beyond measure. Cared for, beyond description. Seeing favor in ways & places far beyond what I deserve. And…sometimes still needing to pray for the ‘daily bread’ and basic financial provision to meet obligations each month. If those sound like opposites to you, I’m hoping this brief reflection will serve to re-arrange your thinking about […]
On this day, I will give you a key to my kingdom. It is believing that I am. Do not believe in what I will do for you or false definitions of happiness. You can believe in who I am, My character, My nature, my person. I am a real God, a real person. I […]
To start the new year, I have a new granddaughter, complete with attendant complications; unknown outcomes and future, joys and scares, waiting, hoping, praying, rejoicing over progress. It occurred to me: what a perfect metaphor for the new year we are all facing. So many unknowns, ups and downs that always accompany life, seemingly magnified […]
Our Readers are Spectacular When we started this journal we wondered what we would do to get people to read the articles we were publishing. Our question was, “What if they don’t read it?” We were so wrong. You guys read it, almost all of it. So we wanted to look back and share our […]
We want to congratulate all those who graduated in December 2021. You pushed through some of the most difficult times to be a student we’ve seen this century. At least a whole semester was metaphorically nuked by situations beyond your control, and yet here you are, finished. Congratulations! We’re so proud of you! You’ve more […]
Deadly Combination: High Inflation Rates, Low Interest Rates, Stock Market High What an enigma! Record high inflation, record low interest rates, record high stock market. Never before have we seen this tripartite combination in the United States. Historically, this has happened before. What do you think is next for the United States? What about world […]
How a simple logging library created a disaster Information Technology and Security professionals everywhere had a wild ride this past December when Apache publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the log4j-core library that had been hidden for over 8 years. This vulnerability was officially dubbed “log4shell”, but, as EthernetNoose from Reddit pointed out, LogNightmare is more […]
And why you shouldn’t jump in headfirst Non-fungible Tokens, or NFTs, have become something of a buzz word in the news lately. Thankfully, understanding what they are, what they mean, and what might come from them in the future is actually very simple. Originally theorized sometime around 2012, a NFT was simply thought of as […]
How Arizona v Google 2020 is Changing the Market Tracking Mainstream Marketing PracticesTracking in the 21st century up until now has been entirely mainstream in marketing. It brought such ease to marketing by automating audiences and ‘cyber stalking’ users. At first they were mutually beneficial. These campaigns allowed advertisers to offer clients products they had […]
The term “Social Justice” has seeped into every part of our cultural institutions. If you believe SJ stands for impartial, fair treatment for each member of society, you would be mistaken. To ardent leaders of SJ, the meaning is more nefarious. Rather than seeking equal justice for all people, the movement seeks radical transformation to […]
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