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Gary Darling - A Geeky Christian Insomniac's Musings

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Tue Aug 14

The Blog Is Dead, Long Live The Blog!

I’ve decided to move this blog from Tumblr to Wordpress since I’m spending a lot of time over at Wordpress anyway working on the new Project 405 blog.  And Wordpress allows comments, something that Tumblr has been promising for months & hasn’t delivered.

So effective now this blog is an inactive archive (since I don’t know how to move it) & my new (mostly empty) blog is here: www.garydarling.wordpress.com

Sat Aug 11

Stupid USB Tricks # 295

How about a necktie with a built-in USB powered fan?

Your dork factor will go through the roof with this baby!

Thu Aug 9
Is That A Hippo In Your Kitchen? 

This is a Great Video By Molly Schwartz!

About the energy used to grow process & transport your food.

Food for thought or thought for food… 

Tue Aug 7

Tom Waits Mashup

Found a great Tom Waits movie dialog MP3 & decided to mash it up with his song Heart of Saturday Night along with some stock video & stills of cars.

I’m not wild about the text overlaying the video, but hey, it was free…

Sun Aug 5
Just When I Thought I Would Never Have Robot Attack Insurance…
Fri Aug 3
SeeqPod is a very cool music search engine & media player combined. Just type in a band or song name, click Search then click on a song in the results list to play it. SeeqPod does videos too, can be embedded like above & has lots of other features. This is an excerpt from I believe In Jesus from Seventh Day Slumber, one of my favorites.
Wed Aug 1
Thanks to Dave for posting this great video of Mike Yaconelli on his blog for me to find.  I love this guy!
Tue Jul 31

Stupid USB Tricks # 173

Ok, so lets give all the geeks cancer with this handy new USB powered scented oil burner.

Breathing that crap all day can’t do any harm, right?

Mon Jul 30
How To Make Windows XP Last For 7 Years

This Computerworld article has lots of good info on how to tweak XP and even how to make it look/work like Vista.

I’ve used several of the recommended tuning tools including MS Windows Defender which I didn’t know existed. I even switched to the highly recommended Comodo firewall.

There are lots of links to the tool sites that I won’t duplicate here…

Sun Jul 29
Groundbreaking For The New Riverview Church Addition! Today we joined 4 of our 5 pastors and a few hundred other church members to break ground for the new 1200 seat auditorium.  It was more like ground scratching as the earth was like concrete.  Still it was fun to be a part of something this big. More pictures follow… 

Groundbreaking For The New Riverview Church Addition!

Today we joined 4 of our 5 pastors and a few hundred other church members to break ground for the new 1200 seat auditorium.  It was more like ground scratching as the earth was like concrete.  Still it was fun to be a part of something this big.

More pictures follow… 

Kids Digging In!
Kids Digging In!
More GroundScratching.
More GroundScratching.
Serious Shovel Action!
Serious Shovel Action!
Sat Jul 28

A 100MPG Homemade Microcar!

Jory Squibb has put together a great web site that shows & describes how he designed & built a pretty darned practical 3-wheeled 4-season microcar on a $2,500 budget.  Its made from a couple old Honda scooters & lots of bent tubing.  I’m impressed with his well thought out design and careful stepwise building process.  Lots to read here but worth it if you’re interested, he’s a good writer too.