http://www.blakeatwood.com Books, Tech, Travels, Photos, Life, Faith, and Everything in Between Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:47:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The day: Friday, July 11. The event: Apple iPhone 3G Launch Day I joked with my wife the night before that I wanted to get to the AT&T store at 5am. She thought I was serious. I reminded her that we live in a relatively small city. Surely there would not be ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/07/16/a-tale-of-two-iphones/ RUNNING THROUGH PARIS aka the long version, at 5 minutes SPRINTING THROUGH PARIS aka the short version, at 90 seconds (per Flickr's time limit) http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/15/video-from-paris-trip/ [amazonify]0979017491[/amazonify] Pop Goes the Church makes the case for the wise and effective use of popular culture within a church service. Stevens does not approach the subject lightly, nor does he speak from an academic or merely hypothetical point of view. As Executive Pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Illinois, ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/12/pop-goes-the-church-tim-stevens/ "DALLAS - Federal regulators said Thursday they are investigating how an American Airlines jet lost a panel from its belly shortly after taking off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before continuing on across the Atlantic and landing safely in Paris."My apologies for the egregious use of caps in the title, ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/08/aa-plane-to-paris-loses-panel-in-flight/ Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. I'd forgotten about this embedded slideshow feature! Click each large picture to read the captions! http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/06/paris-photos-embedded-slideshow/ Here are 62 photos for your viewing pleasure (out of the possible 1000 or more that we took). http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/02/paris-vacation-photos-a-sampling/ Like our initial flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Paris, my updates regarding our current Paris vacation are delayed. We've done so much, and I would have liked to have written daily updates, but my eyes begin twitching for sleep as soon as I cross the semi-elevated threshold to our host's ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/05/01/paris-vacation-update-delayed/ [amazonify]0143034359[/amazonify]MOTS (More of the Same, see Lost in a Good Book). Unlike movies, there are more book series that maintain interest and become more inventive over time and their various sequels. Fforde’s Lost Plots contines the story of Literary Detective Thursday Next as she now inhabits the Book World. I ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/04/17/the-well-of-lost-plots-jasper-fforde/ [amazonify]0767917405[/amazonify]Very funny book by sportswriter (and Leatherheads scribe) Rick Reilly who tries to answer that eternal question - what’s it like to be a caddy? With stories about looping for John Daly, David Duval, Donald Trump, a blind golfer, and others, Caddy is quite humorous, a little ribald, and wholly ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/04/15/who%e2%80%99s-your-caddy-audiobook-rick-reilly/ [amazonify]0805443908[/amazonify]A book written based on the assumption and corresponding research that complexity in churches is not beneficial to the life of the church. Paring down to the basics (see Google’s search page vs. Yahoo’s search page) and focusing everything about the church on a few principles seems to make churches ... http://www.blakeatwood.com/2008/04/10/simple-church-thom-s-rainer-eric-geiger/