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The Value of Physical Labor

March 8, 2009

I pretty regularly watch the TED videos. Today I watched a talk given by Mike Rowe who does the Dirty Jobs tv show. In it he gives some interesting insight on dirty jobs and questioning if “Pursing your passion” is the right answer. In a sense his talk was the counter-point to [...]

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Dust is Beginning to Settle

March 1, 2009

Well I was quite pleased to find out that I could easily import all of my blogposts from blogspot with the comments. There is a little import tab in the administrative interface and it just works.
One of the reasons I was considering the switch over to a self hosted wordpress blog was so [...]

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Please pardon our technical difficulties

February 21, 2009

Apparently when moving my domain name “preserve dns settings” didn’t mean what I thought. Since things neede to be reset anyways, I figured now was a good time to move over to wordpress. The previous content (and new content and theme) will be up over the next few days. I appologize for the disappearance and [...]

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Tangible and Virtual

February 11, 2009

Just ended a three day training session for work. Not for my usual sort of job but a more “get your hands dirty” kind of job. It was a really fun, class. Most of the students were desk workers like me, but there were two guys who were the supervisors for the [...]

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The Father of the Rothschilds

January 25, 2009

This week we read a story about Maier Anschel Rothschild – the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

This story is taken from volume 4 of The Storyteller by Nissan Mindel

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Waking Up Angry

January 12, 2009

Ed: What follows are some personal thoughts, but I thought that perhaps my lessons learned would help someone else
Today I woke up angry, and that’s good. I was angry at me for forgetting who I am and what my strengths are. Sometimes something is hard because you are making a big difference and [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – A Little Light Dispells a World of Darkness

January 4, 2009

This week we read the story that is in the epilogue of the book Truths Revealed: Modern Stories of Miracles & Faith which is written by a friend of mine. It is a story about darkness and light.

This story is from the epilogue of the book Truths revealed: Modern day stories of faith & miracles [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 23

December 28, 2008

In today’s story we complete the stories from Legends of Judah the Macabee with the story of the Miracle of Chanukah.
If you haven’t caught the whole series here are the links to the series in order.
The Rise of Antiochus EpiphanesThe HellenizersAntiochus Takes ActionThe Death of Eleazar the PriestHannah and Her 7 SonsRebellion in ModiinThe [...]

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