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I’m in Portland Oregon this week at DjangoCon. On the plane on the way here I started C.J. Mehaney’s Cross Centered Life. This morning I went to the hotel restaurant to have some breakfast and took the book with me.

In chapter eight CJ is discussing the events around Christ being nailed to a cross and mocked for his inability to save himself. He make us vividly aware of how our sin, mine and yours,  is responsible for this painful and agonizing torture. A torture that stretches beyond His physical pain to both His human existence and his spiritual communion with the Father. As I read this chapter this morning over breakfast God shed light on Christ’s choice in dying for us. CJ’s vivid description of Christ on the cross and the choice he made to save us brought me to tears right in the middle of the restaurant. CJ writes on pages 90-91:

“Make no mistake: Jesus [could have descended] from the cross and [saved] himself at any moment. It isn’t the nails that [kept] him there. What [kept] him there is what placed Him there — His passion to do the will of the Father, and His love for sinners like you and me.”

“For Jesus cannot save both Himself and save you and me. It’s precisely because He refused to save Himself that He’s able to save others.

Christ choose to endure “a torment far beyond the pain of His physical suffering” to save the wretched sinner I am.

There’s some documentation I’m working on to upgrade. The ConfigParam’s storage was updated. Make sure you read the release docs for the link.
Builder imported was added.

https://fedorahosted.org/loki

It’s been a long summer, a summer of change for me.

Last night I finished a the book Mark of a Man by Elisabeth Elliot. I’m not an avid reader, at all, so finishing a book was pretty exciting.

The first half of the book seems to explore the worlds view of marriage. The second half of the book explores the biblical view of marriage. I was blessed to have read this book through a trying summer. A chapter here and a chapter there reminded me of how much I love my wife and how hard she works to take care of me and raise our children.

This book often reminded me of how I fall short in serving and appreciating her and the long hard summer just amplified it.

Rewrote the model in loki to separate builders from slaves in attempt to support multinode support. I’ve also submitted a package request for Django-loki to fedora.

https://fedorahosted.org/loki

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Just downloaded and tried out Firefox 4 Beta.
First impression: FASTER!

I didn’t expect to see such a noticeable snappiness to it. Nice work Mozilla.

I got some feedback yesterday that suggested the Nushus Fedorahosted.org page could mistakenly depict the application as CLI only. The feedback also suggested that some screenshots would be a welcome addition to the trac site and would help remedy this mis-perception.

So here the are: some nushus screenshots

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted about porchry, though I’ve been working hard to get it done. Current state: We moved in! There’s a little but of paint to touch up an the kick molding adn door molding need to be painted. But the shelving is up and stuff that needs to be stored is on the shelves.

Even though I haven’t been posting I have been taking a picture as things get completed, Here’s a catch-up on the progress.

This is where the old pantry was, new pantry is to the left.

In the above picture you can see some pipes and wires hanging down on the left side of the old pantry. These were in the wall of the pantry that I tore out. I had a plumber look at putting the pipes in the load bearing wall. Couldn’t be done as I  have a large laminate beam along the floor right there that he didn’t want to cut. You can see in the picture below that I ended up building a small chase down the wall. The fridge will go there eventually, so the chase will run up the side of the fridge when it’s all said and done.

Here’s pics of the exterior

This is how I got my Vinyl siding home, I drive it to work like this then home from work. It sat in the parking deck through the afternoon like this.

Here most of the drywall is done in the new pantry and in the picture following the drywall is completed and painted.

I don’t have pictures of the shelving up yet. I’ll get a couple when the wall where the fridge is going is finished and post one more porchry post. Maybe a video is a good way to finish off the series.

New version of nushus is available for download. Just a couple bug fixes.

https://fedorahosted.org/nushus
Release Notes: https://fedorahosted.org/nushus/wiki/Release

***UPDATE***: See the comments, turns out there is capability in F13 to do this that I was unaware of, thx marcanoonline.com!

Got a pair of MotoRokr S9-HD headphones today, pretty cool. Pairing with my iPhone was cake. Pairing with Fedora 13 had an extra couple steps. Getting the headphones paired was not the problem, huge props to Fedora 13 for making that super easy. The issue was getting the headphone to operate in an A2DP configuration.

There is not a place that I could find to select what kind of profile to use with with output device and the device was assigned a mono configuration upon initial pairing. I found one lone post related: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223323

$ sudo yum install pavucontrol

pavucontrol shows the headphones configured for uses as a handsfree phone device (which it can do):

Fedora already had A2DP support installed, just had to select it:

Now I have stereo output on my shiny new headphones.