Monthly Archives: May 2009

Conviction

Text: John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Date: Day of Pentecost + 5/31/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

Each year, when the Day of Pentecost rolls around, we tend to identify it with springtime, the beginning of the lawn-mowing, shrub-shaving, petunia-planting, gardening and outdoor home improvement season. In a similar way we tend to think [...] Continue reading

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Interesting marketing by Sprint for their NOW network and the Palm pre

Doing some browsing as I’m waiting impatiently for next weeks release of the Palm pre I came across Sprints marketing site for their NOW network and the Palm pre. Interesting idea. Here is their custom widget one can post on their own site.

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Update on my webOS/pre app and some Long/Lat to X/Y code

Here are some screenshots of my webOS golf application I’m developing for the Palm pre.  It draws all the information dynamically from gps recorded information and allows one to zoom in and out and drag the course around.

Eventually, it will do all the scoring an location tracking with distance calculations.  Unfortunately I don’t yet have [...] Continue reading

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You Are Not Alone

Text: John 17:11b-19
Date: Easter VII + 5/24/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

On the night in which He was betrayed our Lord Jesus prayed for His disciples. He prayed for the original twelve who were soon to experience the most horrific series of events leading to His crucifixion, death and burial. [...] Continue reading

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Converting Lat/Long to/from stuff

I’ve had a “fun” couple days trying to figure out how to convert Lat/Long both to and from pixel x/y values. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would. I will post some code in another post, when I’ve had a chance to clean it up and make sure it [...] Continue reading

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You Are My Friends

Text: John 15:9-17
Date: Easter VI + 5/17/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

You’ve heard the comment, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” Not everyone with whom you happen to be acquainted would you classify as a friend. A friend is someone from among your acquaintances who cares about you and [...] Continue reading

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More HTML5 Canvas Tests

Ok.. so I got around to figuring out states and the context.save() and context.restore() stuff. So test number 1 (click here for test 1) is a very simple test to try and understand these functions. And test number 2 (click here for test 2) is built on top of yesterdays posted example.
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HTML5 Canvas Practice

So I’ve been messing with the HTML5 Canvas capabilities in some of the newer browsers. Pretty cool stuff. As the first webOS app I’m going to try and build is a golf app I figured I’d better get some practice drawing stuff.
Check it out here.
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Abide in Me

Text: John 15:1-8
Date: Easter V + 5/10/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

When asked if he understood what he was reading the Ethiopian eunuch answered Philip honestly, asking, “How can I [understand], unless someone guides me?” And this has been a theme in our Easter season scripture readings, namely, the opening [...] Continue reading

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You Bet My Life

Text: John 10:11-18
Date: Easter IV + 5/3/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

Every year during the Easter season the Fourth Sunday after Easter is designated “Good Shepherd” Sunday on which we hear a reading from the tenth chapter of John’s Gospel where he records Jesus’ words telling of Himself and His [...] Continue reading

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