April 09, 2013
Gargoyle Code
Just took a quick peek at Chameleon OS for unlocked/rooted Android phones. Looks nice. I'll be trying on my Kindle Fire soon, as it's one of the targeted devices.
Good morning! It's kind of a cloudy one here, but at least its warmer — upper 50's on the commute and should skirt with 70°F today. I offered up a set of Joyful Mysteries for Michelle's continuing good health. I listened to today's In Conversation and then started a new book: The Gargoyle Code. It's like a modern rendition of C.S.Lewis' classic short story, "The Screwtape Letters".
Everyone at our corporate site has been given pedometers because of World Health Day last weekend. We'll all be tracking our walking for the next few days.
Back from another good lunch with my spiritual director. And bonus: it's sunny and 66°F outside. Welcome spring! Especially since the next three days look to be rainy. Alas it beats snowing!
"Guilt is to sin as is the sense of touch to fire. It's a gift and it's a life saver." via Grandpa Ed. Or as St. Thomas Aquinas says somewhat more eloquently, "Guilt is the loss of the integrity of the soul and the soul recognizing that fact".
Got a new feature working just before I wrapped up for the day. Always glad when that happens. So often I end up driving home thinking, "what could it be???" "Why is it failing?" "What am I overlooking?" Heading north to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for tonight's Opus Dei Evening of Recollection. Roughly 17 years and no signs of albino monk assassins yet! Dan Brown is such a fraud!
Back for the evening. Tonight's talks dwelt on Love in little, ordinary things and our help to the Pope via our own prayers and actions. Also a Rosary, Eucharistic benediction, examination of conscience, and opportunities for Confession. Saw a good friend afterwards who just had his own battle with throat cancer. Words fail me. Listened to a bit more of my novel on the drive home. I'm about half way through it. When I got home Michelle and the boys were already in bed. Abby was doing her homework and Claire was still away at gymnastics.
Assortment of web finds:
- FastMail.fm has now added the ability to attach files from Dropbox and save attachments to Dropbox. I've been putting off signing up with Dropbox for years. But every month more and more apps I like integrate with their service. It's getting harder to resist them for web storage/syncing.
- Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence. Oh pull-ease! Years ago the comedy show "The Half Hour News Hour" used to do a segment about how every malady could be connected to global warming. It's no fun when you see it actually argued.
- IRS is examining if free food provided by tech companies is a fringe benefit on which employees should pay Additional Tax. I've said it before, the only thing the government can't regulate is its own spending. Sometimes I think I should augment that with a corollary about its ability to control its ways of finding revenue sources. You want to place a value on company provided food and tax the employees on that?
- Microsoft says Android "is an underhand bid to control the entire mobile market". Well, if anyone would know about market domination that borders on monopoly, it would be Microsoft. They could be called in as an "expert witness".
- And finally my vote for Coolest Conspiracy of the Week: Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?
“The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes,
but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes;
so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” — John 3