Mysterious Orbs

In the midst of a church service at a holiday camp this year someone exclaimed that the photos on their camera had little floating glowing orbs everywhere and that these orbs are actually angels. I was taken aback at how strongly they presented their case. I believe that angels do join us sometimes when we worship God, so I'm not trying to say that there aren't any angels present. I am saying that these glowing orbs are simply lens flares and all the photos that have been presented to me thusfar have been taken with the camera's flash on.

To create the photo below I simply placed a reflective piece of material just out of shot on the bottom left, the result - these lens flares.

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Ideas

I’m trying to get the old idea factory running – a.k.a. my brain. It seems to be a slow process and so far I’ve not come up with anything particularly funny.
Amos and I tried to do a follow up to this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjWf2chqMXY
That video was scripted (though we didn’t take the time to learn the lines, which was probably more funny than the actual jokes), but Amos and I just improved bad jokes about the wii. We said that a yellow wii would be the way to go because a red wii just isnt right and using someone else’s wii just doesn’t feel right.
Mainly the ideas are still in the tech department – such as: Syntara could have an awesome search page that searches all your database tables for something you want.

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1st entry

Well I actually took some time this fine saturday to sit down and read some of the bible – Ephesians 4 – and write about what I’d written. Verse 21 and onwards is a fairly well known passage and it wasn’t exactly challenging to understand it’s meaning and application to my life – It speaks about putting on a new life of kindness to others, humility and satisfaction and putting away your old ways of hatred, jealously and pride – but at least I’m making a start on this. Once again the plan is about twice a week.
I’m really happy that I used the middle of my Saturday for journaling rather than using the 10 minutes before I fall asleep or the 10 minutes after I just wake up.

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Lazer tag madness

So I went to zone3 last night, which is this laser tag place where you run around in the dark and shoot each other with lasers. A brilliant concept if I may say so. Now, I go to this place all the time, I have a little chip that I insert into the pack that you wear that signs me in to their system so I get personalized stats and whatnot. Everything worked out fine for the first two matches, I came first in the free-for-all match, and third in the team match - plus my team won, but then in the third match I picked up a different pack and it wouldn't sign in. I tried to explain this to the person there but they didn't know what I was talking about, so I went in anyway, figuring the third game wouldn't go so well for me and it's best not to be on my stats. As soon as the game begins I realise that my gun has no laser sight so I can't see where I'm shooting. Though this could be good for not letting people know where you are, it sucks if you want to be a sniper or just hit someone who's hiding behind a wall. So I eventually decided to go and ask for a replacement gun, which they've happily given me before, only this time the owner wasn't there. When I asked for 'a gun with a laser please' the person put their hand on the sensor and fired the weapon which produced a shooting sound and proceded to tell me that the gun worked fine. I said 'no, it doesn't have a laser sight so I can't see where I'm aiming' and then they asked me why it mattered, saying it shouldn't be a problem, obviously that person doesn't actually play the game. Then we had so much trouble finding a gun who's RJ45 connector wasn't attached with blu-tac (u-tac for non-Aussies) and the person told me 'you know you'll get a different score, right?' - No you don't get a different score, the score registers to the pack, not the gun. Gosh!
So eventually I got back in the game and when all was said and done I got 7th out of 8. Go figure.

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Flock Browser, Swul, so many cool techs

So I just got myself this browser called Flock. Totally useless when I'm at work because I'll be totally distracted all the time, but boy is it awsome for social networking. It grabs all of my social online stuff and interacts with it. It's not totally awesome but it's pretty good. Facebook, twitter, flickr, digg, del.ico.us, everything I could think of.
Hey the thing i love most about these sort of things that combine lots of cool stuff is I find out about lots of cool stuff in the process. For example I found out about stumbleupon through using swurl. Brilliant app that takes me to pages I didn't know I wanted to go to but deep down I really did. I love the internet

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