December 2007
13 posts
The great fall of China - Los Angeles Times →
For Americans, the new numbers from the World Bank bring good news and bad. On the plus side, U.S. leadership in the global system seems more secure and more likely to endure through the next generation. On the other hand, the world we are called on to lead is poorer and more troubled than we anticipated.
Thrudb - faster, cheaper than SimpleDB →
Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop... →
When Starbucks opens a store next to a mom and pop, it creates a sort of coffee nexus where people can go whenever they think “coffee.”
Ruby 1.9 Is Released! →
“The integral t-squared dt
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine...”
– Mathematical jokes on Wikipedia
Beginner's Digital SLR buying guide: The Sifry... →
Willow Creek confesses wasting millions on... →
Rails 2.0: It's done! →
Lots of good stuff that even I wasn’t entirely aware off. Congrats, Rails team!
Dopplr opens to travellers from 100 top NGOs →
I wonder if that means I’ll start seeing folks from World Vision or, say, Crossroads Intl popping up on Dopplr.
12 Mistakes Mission Agencies Should Avoid →
Particularly resonant with me is that, some congregations are bypassing mission agencies when sending church members as missionaries. Winter criticizes this practice because churches lack the insights of missiology and the vast experience of mission agencies. There are pros as well as cons to this approach, but as a growing trend how can it be creatively and properly supported?