tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332253902011-07-07T14:58:22.449-07:00Vu Le, DDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03116760886563460285noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33225390.post-2816908217845767972009-12-30T21:57:00.001-08:002010-01-04T17:33:57.612-08:002010-01-04T17:33:57.612-08:00

While I can see how Pastor Rick’s last minute email asking for $900,000 could elicit the comments it has, I respectfully disagree. Fact:Pastor Rick lives in a non-gated community, in the same house he had before his book went big, and drives the same old Ford Explorer. He flies passenger airlines just like you and me. The only private planes he flies are charters where no passenger planes are

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WebMD has a nice primer on the ingredients in toothpaste. We all know about fluoride, but there's a few other things our toothpastes must do.

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Did Coldplay rip off Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly"? One man's inspiration is another's infringement. Listen to the clip and judge for yourself:They definitely have the exact same chord progression and a very, very similar melody. Listening to the last third of the video clip, (I agree, it's awesome) I think Joe should cut a lucrative deal with Coldplay for a remix single. Techdirt discusses

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I first learned about Radiopoppers on Yanik's Photo School blog. If your camera fits in your pocket, that's OK, but this post won't do anything for you. If you want to fire your flashes off-camera without messing with meters or sync cables, read on.Basically, Radiopoppers bridge Canon/Nikon's wireless ETTL/CLS systems with radio transmission ala Pocketwizards. So you can fire your flashes

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My goal of flash photography is to bring my own light to the picture in a natural, pleasing looking way.This usually involves an SLR-type camera, because you'll need a hookup for an external flash. For SLR owners, I see flash photography in four major stages: 1) on camera, built in flash 2) on camera flash 3) off camera flash 4) off camera high-power flash. #1 is very easy, because it's

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Fellow McCain supporters, let's admit defeat graciously as he did and look on the bright side. We should celebrate that African Americans have finally broken through, and that more people voted than ever before. Even if you don't like the result, an involved, enthusiastic populace is the best long term defense against special interests.Fellow business owners and/or doctors, some of us will have

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Will kids learn about gay marriage in public schools? California's Proposition 8 defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman. It is a direct response to a California Supreme Court ruling that granted homosexual couples the right to marry in California.Rather than talk about the pros and cons of homosexual marriage, the conservative proponents of Proposition 8 is choosing to focus its

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Obama's rationale for higher taxes: It's all about fairness. Corporations like Exxon made billions under Bush, now we're taking it all back and giving it to the middle class. When we spread the wealth around, everyone gets a little ahead. Let's say I run FATCORP, which sells potato chips for $2 per bag. Let's say that taxable income each bag (after tax deductions) is $1. Currently, FATCORP

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Ethanol producing startup Coskata has developed a process that yields ethanol for $1 per gallon, vs. the $2-4 per gallon of current methods. It's simple: vaporize plant matter (you don't need sugar crops like sugar cane or corn) to carbon gas, feed it to bacteria, and out comes ethanol. It sounds too good to be true, but GM has already bought a share of the company, so let's hope this is the

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If you look at USA Today's Electoral map, there's a very interesting sidenote about Maine and Nebraska, which theoretically can split their electoral votes (but never have). It doesn't look very good for McCain; the Republicans basically have to sweep all the contested landlocked states AND win Florida...it's possible, but as long as McCain's camp continues to procrastinate dealing decisively

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My fellow Americans,It's easy to be angry when our financial institutions fail while CEOs walk away with millions. In the heat of obvious failures and unfairness, let us focus on solutions, not scapegoats. Let us not point our fingers to blame, but reach out our hands to help.I have said that the American workers, the fundamental basis of our economy, are still strong, and still important. My

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Saturday Night Live's hilarious interview with Gov. Palin (impersonated by Tina Fey:)

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You know that 5% of pages that don't work with Firefox? Now I just right click, and it makes an IE window as a Firefox tab. Sweet.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

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Saddleback Church has a cool new building called the Refinery. They're doing a new service there called "the Fuse", which is the first to feature live teaching outside of the main worship center. Here's some stage photos that I got last night:

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I was just watching this week's Smallville episode, and I couldn't help but notice that actor Sam Witwer (Davis Bloome/Doomsday) bears an incredible resemblance to the main character in The Force Unleashed, a recent video game from Lucas Arts. Turns out I was right: Witwer also acted out the role of Vader's secret apprentice. It's truly a testament to how far video games have come, that a

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I have one of these, and it's really cool. Price has come down to $59 for the basic version, which is more than enough for most dentists and photographers alike. It looks like an orange SD memory card, which goes into your camera. But once you shoot, it sends the picture via wireless signals to your computer. No more plugging in that USB cable or card reader to get your patient photos

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One of the big compromises of smaller (non-SLR) cameras is high noise, that grainy colored appearance in the shadows of your photos. Small cameras mean small sensors, small pixels, less light on each smaller pixel, more amplification, and thus more image noise.Fuji's (discontinued) F30 and F31 cameras were compact cameras that had the sensor quality of an SLR in the size of a bar of hand soap. I

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Here's a 3D view of the outer entrance to Saddleback Church's new refinery building. Since it's Microsoft technology, you have to have a Windows PC to view it. (sorry Mac people)

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The empire finally strikes back:Take that, Justin Long and Steve Jobs. If only this ad aired about four years and a few million Macs ago, they may not have needed to blow all their money on that big Seinfeld ad about nothing.

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As you know, my grandmother, Trinh, accepted Christ four years ago. Like my father, she was miraculously healed from major illness, yet she refused to believe for years. It was only recently that she gave up Buddhism. For all his efforts, my dad and his two parents are the only Christians on his side of the family.Grandma Trinh has been staying in the hospital for a second bout of hepatitis

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I found this slideshow generator service. EZtechtips.com walks you through it.

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Want to see it bigger? Full version posted here.

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I've informally shot at 3 weddings in the last 3 months, and learned a lot in the process. It's a very challenging discipline of photography. I don't think the average person appreciates just how difficult and unforgiving it can be. How many people can creatively and accurately capture dozens of fleeting once in a lifetime moments in a single day?Here's a compilation of tips and tricks for

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Tech Report has a very easy to understand primer on all the different versions of Windows (Vista Home Premium, Basic, Ultimate, etc) for the Do It Yourself crowd:http://techreport.com/articles.x/15381/11It's part of a larger article on how to build your own PC.I'm a big believer that the only way to have a demo-ware free Windows PC is to either build it yourself, or wipe the hard drive and

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I went and shot a few hundred pics of the Refinery this morning.(Couldn't do the front of the building's morning shadows, and can't dothe back because of the construction.)I used Microsoft'sexperimental Photosynth software to weave the photos into a 3D space.The calculations are done at your computer, then uploaded toMicrosoft's photosynth.net site.The result is pretty neat: you can rotate and

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