Good Friday
I appreciate the full story of Good Friday more each year. Christ died for our sins on the cross.
I appreciate the full story of Good Friday more each year. Christ died for our sins on the cross.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Tristan Betrayal, agent Stephen Metcalfe infiltrates WWII Moscow to sway a German general against invading Russia, rekindling a romance with ballerina Lana amid Nazi pursuits and betrayals.
Monthly update 227 • March 2009 • 2009-03-01 - 2009-03-31
If you see fairplayd running on your Mac, here is what this DRM process does.
If you see mDNSResponderHelper running on your Mac, here is what this Bonjour helper process does.
In Frederick Forsyth’s The Negotiator, a high-stakes thriller set in the late 1980s, master negotiator Quinn, a battle-hardened American with a mysterious past, gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when the U.S. President’s son is kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries.
If you see systemmigrationd running on your Mac, here is what this Migration Assistant process does.
If you see SCHelper running on your Mac, here is what this system configuration helper does.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Directive, ex-agent Paul Janson rescues philanthropist Peter Novak from terrorists, only for the mission to fail spectacularly.
Monthly update 226 • February 2009 • 2009-02-01 - 2009-02-28
If you see diskarbitrationd running on your Mac, here is what this disk mounting and ejection process does.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option, co-authored with Gayle Lynds, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts a DNA computer after a lab explosion in Paris.
If you see vsdbutil on your Mac, here is what this volume permissions tool does.
Monthly update 225 • January 2009 • 2009-01-01 - 2009-01-31
The number of customers purchasing went up by 45%. The extra purchases resulted in an extra $15 million the first month. For the first year, the site saw an additional $300,000,000.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, banker Ben Hartman and agent Anna Navarro uncover a WWII-era cabal, Sigma, manipulating world events through assassinations and age-reversal tech.
In Frederick Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol, a gripping Cold War thriller, a Soviet agent named Valeri Petrofsky is sent to Britain to carry out a sneaky mission to blow up a nuclear device.
Monthly update 224 • December 2008 • 2008-12-01 - 2008-12-31
Reflection on the year 2008, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Christmas has become central to how I view the world. Jesus was born to bring salvation to all.
WALL·E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton, follows a small robot left on Earth. Ben Burtt voices WALL·E with beeps and charm. He stacks trash and collects odd things. Elissa Knight acts as EVE, the sleek probe who drops from space.
Monthly update 223 • November 2008 • 2008-11-01 - 2008-11-30
In Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact, co-authored with Philip Shelby, Covert-One agent Jon Smith pursues a stolen smallpox sample from Russia.
If you see hdiejectd running on your Mac, here is what this disk image ejection process does.
Nothing to Lose strands Reacher between the Colorado towns of Hope and Despair, where he uncovers a military scrap conspiracy tied to disappearances.