For more context, history and background on this topic, the first post is found at: Headstand Media Bank of Hope

An earlier update is found at: Headstand Media Bank of Hope Update

Today I went to the 30th floor cafeteria of my office building to get some lunch. They had a station there featuring DR food!

So, I helped myself to:

• Potato-shrimp fritter
• Vegetable rice
• Fried chicken
• Red beans
• Broccoli (not sure this is “DR”)

My "DR Lunch"

Lance Ulanoff writes yesterday on Mashable that “Adobe confirmed what reports were saying all morning: It’s done with the Flash Mobile Player and has now thrown its lot in with the HTML5 crowd — for mobile at least.”

What I find amazing about this is that I am old enough (57) to have lived through the entire birth, life and death of a very powerful and ubiquitous technology. When Adobe purchased Macromedia in 2005 and got Flash technology with the deal, I thought it would be around forever!

When I start thinking about it, this technology birth, life and death phenomenon is happening more and more in my life.

Example 1: My wife and I are watching “The West Wing” TV series on DVD, having never watched them when the series was popular in the 90′s. I noticed the other night that C.J. put an Iomega Zip Disk into an external Zip Drive to retrieve some hot political inside information. I’ve got boxes full of those disks, and no drive or computer that will read them anymore! I’ve already thrown away all of my floppy disks from the Mac OS versions 1-9 days. Where is Iomega now? Who owns a floppy drive?

Example 2: I remember when Adobe “Shockwave” was THE future for interactive multimedia! Only to be replaced by that newer technology called “Flash” that Adobe got when it bought Macromedia, who bought it from some guy named Jonathan Gay, who says he got the original idea from playing with Lego’s!

Example 3: Remember MySpace? ‘Nuf said.

Change — rapid change — is just the world we live in. For better or worse, there is no stopping it.

This leads me to reflect on people I know who don’t like change and work very hard to resist it — especially in my age bracket and older. They tend to say things like, “it was different when I was a kid,” or that they prefer the older technologies over the newer ones because they are “better.” Why is that? Are they really?

It seems to me that when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press (moveable type), he not only opened the door to the masses being able to read the Bible on their own and in their own language without someone else telling them what it said and meant — thus setting the stage for the Protestant Reformation — he also opened the door to mass character smear campaigns, the rampant spread of published lies and propaganda, and the eventual entry of written and graphic pornography — to name just a few consequences.

The same thing can be said of every other communication technology advancement since then: the camera, motion pictures, telegraph, phonograph, telephone, radio, television, the Internet, mobile phones, Google’s search engine and Facebook.

I guess I am not like many in my generation. I prefer to embrace the reality of change, and the increasing rate of it, rather than to pretend it doesn’t exist or that it is all bad. I prefer to make the best of it and be a small force for employing it for good.

Good bye, Flash. Hello, HTML5.

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

You can find out more details about the condo, town and resort area at the Steamboat Springs Condo Rental, Colorado website.

Our family vacationed there in August of 2007 for a week and had a blast. There is a pool,

Pool at Steamboat Springs Colorado Condo

tennis courts,

Steamboat Springs Colorado Rental Condo - Tennis Courts

exercise room, and plenty of room in the condo for all 7 of us. We used the kitchen and dining area every day to cook and make our own meals with food we bought at local grocery stores.

We hiked up the mountain,

Hiking up the mountain, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

came down on the gondolas, shopped, played miniature golf, ate at great restaurants, went to a rodeo,

Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Rodeo

went trap shooting,

Trap Shooting on a ranch near Steamboat Springs Rental Condo, Colorado

and much more.

View of Condos in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

It’s a beautifal area in many ways!

Wildflowers near Steamboat Springs Colorado Condo Rental

We highly recommend it!

Our family vacationing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Through the mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the threeness,
Through confession of the oneness
Of the creator of creation.

I arise today

Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism,
Through the strength of His crucifixion with His burial,
Through the strength of His resurrection with his ascension,
Through the strength of his descent for the Judgement of Doom.

I arise today

Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
In obedience of angels,
In the service of archangels,
In the hope of the resurrection to meet with reward,
In prayers of Patriarchs,
In predictions of Prophets
In preaching of Apostles
In faith of Confessors
In innocence of Holy Virgins
In deeds of righteous men.

I arise today

Through the strength of heaven of the sun
Radiance of the moon
Splendor of fire
Speed of lightening
Swiftness of wind
Depth of sea
Stability of earth
Firmness of rock.

I arise today

Through God’s strength to pilot me:
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me
God’s ear to hear me
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me
God’s way to lie before me
God’ shield to protect me
God’s host to save me
From snares of devils
From temptation of vices
From everyone who shall wish me ill
Afar and near
Alone and in a multitude.

I summon today all those powers between me and those evils
Against every cruel merciless power that oppose my body and soul
Against incantations of false prophets
Against black laws of pagandom
Against false laws of heretics
Against the craft of idolatry
Against spells of women, and smiths and wizards
Against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul.

Christ to shield me today
Against poison, against burning
Against drowning, against wounding
So that there may come to me an abundance of reward.
Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down and Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

I arise today

Through the mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity
Through belief in the threeness,
Through the confession of the oneness
Through the Creator of creation.

Domini est salus. Domini est salus. Christi est salus, Salve tua, Domini, Sit temper
nobiscum.
Amen

– T.S. Eliot

– Mark Steyn