The census report released today says that Greeley, Colorado is the fastest growing community in the country. This means they've becoming very creative in controlling the feedlot odors or they've become very creative in zoning.
NEWISH & FREE
A few weeks ago the Opera webbrowser people celebrated the 10th birthday of their product by giving it away for a day. Now they've decided to make that pricing structure permanent. Opera is a great browser. It lacks a few of the bells and whistles that you find in IE or Firefox -- but it is soooo fast.
OpenOffice, the open-source office suite that more or less behaves like Microsoft Office, has issued a new release. (I'm still kind of stuck on WordPerfect or I'd use my OpenOffice more often. I do use the spreadsheet and the presentation software quite a bit. BTW, I just bought WordPerfect 12 for about $15 -- close to free -- from one of the software outlets.)
THE NEWEST APPROACH TO AIDING AFRICA
Think small! No more large scale projects which do little to help the poor. Trickle-down just never worked in Africa. We need more small-scale projects which do an end-run around the hopelessly venal governmental and business structures. IOW, get so small that the obese middle-man is squeezed and eliminated. Link
FLEEING RITA
I-45 going north from Houston to Dallas is for the first time a one way street (all lanes go north) and it's still bumper to bumper as Houston evacuates. Rick and his family set out for Tulsa last night.
BLOG CENSORSHIP
Reporters Without Borders has released a handbook offering advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censors. Blogs are harder to control than other more mainstream media and that means that in some parts of the world bloggers are often the only independent journalists.
THE EMERGING CHURCH MEETS THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
The tone is slightly snide and sneering but here is a good summary of a presentation to a group of Pentecostal boomers by an emerging-type. The outline of the emerging demands is helpful in understanding the mindset of some younger people. A lot of the criticisms are on the mark. The speaker is Gregory Powell. (via)
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I think you're right on with the Aid to Africa thing.
Right now we have a guy in our church from the Congo. Last year he went home and one of the major problems there is infastructure. -Broken roads, which slow trade and economic development.
He took some of his own money, paid 7 or 8 guys more than triple the going rate and they worked on rebuilding a kilometer of road, by hand.
End effect? Eight families had a income that sustained them for a long time. The road is repaired, and the trip to the next village is faster and much better.
We are looking at this model for future church "Missionary work."
Send a trustworthy local over there with a wad of cash and have him invest it in the community.
Sweet.
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