Category: Life & More

  • Apple’s claim that “Safari. The world’s best browser. Now on Windows, too” is a tall order. Unimpressed with the initial Safari port, Safari 3.0, I went into this latest update with speculations. There are still numerous bugs that need to be straightened out. Originally, I was running an international (Japanese) version of Windows and Safari struggled with the bi-lingual setting I had placed it in. From the “discussions” on the Apple board, it seems the same issue is still recurring in the latest update. Personally, now running on an English version of Windows, it gave me some odd errors when…

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  • "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." (James 1:5)

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  • My screensaver was running and this picture popped up and all the things I miss about Japan were stirred up. You are probably wondering how a bottle of Royal Milk Tea makes me miss Japan so much. Japan is a land of many wonders, this bottle of milk tea represents one of those wonders: the ability to buy hot drinks from a vending machine. Furthermore, Japan is beautiful place. The land, the people, the culture and history of Japan is simply breath-taking. While from a Christian point-of-view, Japan has been heavily under a veil of darkness, it does not take…

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  • Matthew 10:34-37 (NIV) "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn: ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law–a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." Many anti-Christian debates have used this passage to expose Christianity and the teachings…

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  • You know, I’m really finding it difficult to find good coffee. Maybe I’ve got over-developed tastebuds, but I seriously haven’t had a real good coffee in quite a while. There’s a nice little place (Redgum) next to college that suits my taste, but I’m not driving 40 minutes when I’m not at college for a coffee. Melbourne is considered one of the best place to find a good, quality coffee, but with the continuing surge of coffee chains and coffee houses, the quality is seriously declining. Overall, I haven’t found the choice of coffee beans the issue as much as…

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