#FF @TWDittmer Another interesting post by my brother

http://twdittmer.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/get-your-mind-right/
There’s a place for me where thoughts flow freely. The raucous noise of the outside world is shut out. The clock stops and I can feel myself breathe. I swing lazily in the hammock of undisciplined thinking, swaying in rhythm with a whimsical breeze. - TWDittmer

COURAGE!! #humor #funnypic

Hot and Cold #humor #funnypic

#Fiction #writing and #storytelling

Taking characters and scenarios from the imagination and making them believable is an admirable skill of fiction writers. The deep skepticism of humanity makes reporting the truth difficult enough.
My late wife Lynne thought that many of the crazy adventures and stunts I told her about were just stories to entertain her, until she heard my friends reminiscing (remember driving down a flight of stairs in a VW Bug?) about those same stories
The greatest orchestrator  of fantastic stories is God Himself. Knowing you are skeptical, I call them Parables. But be warned. You will run across a friend or two who have been there and seen that, and who's stories are disturbingly similar.

#supportchickfila vs #boycottchickfila

Is it wise to bless what God has cursed? or curse what God has blessed?
God doesn't lie. God doesn't change His mind. Live with it. Die without it.

#boycottapple Seattle Rex vs Apple the schoolyard bully

I thought this article was very enlightening about Apple's approach to customers.
http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-is-in/
Words like snobs, bull headed, pig headed come to mind. Like their  "father" Steve Jobs.
Stop by My Amazing Amazon eStore for Parable Promoters!

#blogtip Using #googleanalytics for self #encouragement

http://www.google.com/analytics/features/index.html
Google Analytics, a free tool offered to bloggers who use Google's www.blogger.com, is a cool tool for me to stay focused on blogging.
Blog readers, indeed all internet social site readers, are like invisible friends who leave few clues that they have been in contact with you. Google Analytics is great for digging up those clues.
I find it greatly encouraging when I read the reports. Today I read that readers came from 39 different language sites. More than half a dozen were English sites but that still leaves over 30 languages that are viewing my blog.
I can also view the number of countries and even cities that view my blog, along with facts about the browsers.
57 countries have viewed my flagship blog, The Shepherd's Heart Journal, for the short period that I have activated Google Analytics, a little over a month. In my ebook, The Gift Parables, tells my story of miracle and grace and how God turned my life into a living parable, viewers from 20 counties have tuned in.
That fact really lifts my spirits and keeps me writing.

#Apple disappoints whining #investors: Vanishing psychological #monopoly

Even though Apple is the most profitable device manufacturer on the planet, beating their own predictions with consistently high growth and profitability, the whiners that have invested in Apple are not happy with just miracles.
I am not an Apple fan, by any means, but their laser focus on profits evidently is not enough to satisfy the frenzy whipped up by hungry investors and greedy brokers.
With Apple stock at historic highs, now would be a good time to take 1/2 of it and invest in something worthwhile, like treating your wife and kids to a vacation.
Perhaps the real reason the investors are worried is Apple's former psychological monopoly on the smart phone market and it's present one on the tablet market are both crumbling under the innovative and market pressure of competitors.
This is what many investors were counting on. It's disappearance is what is really unnerving them.

A #Miracle Inside the #AuroraShooting: One Victim’s Story

When I hear about THE SHOOTING, I'm tempted to ask: WHERE ARE YOU, GOD? then I look a little closer..

http://bstrait.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/a-miracle-inside-the-the-aurora-shooting-one-victims-story/
My Amazing Amazon eStore for Parable Promoters: My Favorite Worship and Inspirational Music

Dancing #Robot out #dances #Elvis #hiphop #rock #chickendance

The Dark Knight Remembers #theatershooting #coloradotragedy

Nineveh Shore #worship #music #praise

Not long ago I received an email from my delightful niece Selena. She shares her uncle's passion for coffee, sci fi and action movies, and music, especially worship music. I thought I'd share that email with you. - Mike
From Selena: Hello Family and Friends,

My band, Nineveh Shore, has released its first album, "From the Depths". 

I cannot tell you what an exciting day this is for me and my family, and my band mates. God has been so good to us these last few years and the completion of this album is just one more blessing.

Please take a look at our website, Facebook page and link to our CD. Let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts.  :)


http://www.ninevehshore.webs.com/

http://www.facebook.com/Nineveh.Shore

http://www.tatemusicgroup.com/epk/?id=16282

   

#Google Apps Muscling in #Microsoft #Office Territory

The July 16, 2012 Wall Street Journal (I bought the paper, so I don't have a link) headlined Microsoft fighting back against Google incursions. They went to great lengths to show the efforts Microsoft is taking to keep customers, including flying IT guys to their headquarters to impress them with all of their new projects coming online. Microsoft is slashing costs, developing special sales teams, and talking tough.
Reading further, however, reveals that that the IT man flown to Microsoft still chose Google Apps. 2 reasons, savings, BIG SAVINGS!, and "Google is cool".
Closer inspection of the article shows Google Apps is winning 1/3 of new business, far greater than the experts prediction of 20%.
I switched to Google for all my documentation when, after losing dozens of sermons because of incompatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems, I decided to transfer all my sermons and writing to Google Docs. This was in 2009.
I was already impressed with Google because their search could find scriptures more accurately and quickly than Bible websites could.
I later switched from Hotmail to gmail totally when my Hotmail account was hacked and all my friends were being sent pornographic links.
I also started backing up all my photos and then later downloaded my photos first to Picasa when I learned Google automatically and immediately backs up all it's data in a different region.
I started to blog on Google's blogspot rather than Facebook because Google offered larger print size, more editing power, and showed me how to monetize my blog (that's a fancy word for make money).
Google also made massive efforts to tie all their products together seamlessly, so that I could move from one product (like Gmail) to another (like Blogger) seamlessly and effortlessly.
The only surprise I have in reading the article Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In is why it took so long for The Wall Street Journal to write this article.