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Prediction: Electric CarsApril 13, 2009
As of 2009, electric cars are still something of the future. The gas pump remains the source of energy that gets us from place to place. With the plunge of the economy and oil prices falling to 25 percent of what they were a year and a half ago, it's a little unclear where we're headed.
But I'm convinced that once the economy recovers and growth resumes, we'll be right back to where we were. In the end, I think the electric car will become as mainstream as the gasoline-powered cars were in the twentieth century.
How quickly that will happen, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of electric cars on the road by 2030, perhaps even a majority, and there will be no going back.
My first BlackBerry applicationApril 6, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, Meredith came home from work with a shiny new BlackBerry Bold for me, which I had been eying for quite some time. Getting a data plan through Rogers turned out to be more than a little frustrating: A $25 data plan quickly turned into $43/mo because they charge you $10/mo for not taking a voice plan (lame) and another $7/mo for a system access fee. (sigh)
Anyway, once I started playing with the device, I was curious to see what the development tools were like, and I have to admit, I'm impressed! RIM makes available a Java Development Environment "JDE", which consists of an IDE and tools for copying apps to the device, etc.
Last weekend I got
my application up and running. A fun experience!
Birds eye viewMarch 17, 2009
As Meredith and I were flying down to Florida in February, I was looking down at the thousands upon thousands of lights on the ground. They were seemingly endless. And I imagined all of those people, hundreds of thousands of them, going about their lives, completely oblivious to the fact that I sat from my vantage point observing them. In a sense, I felt completely irrelevant, because I was totally detached from each of their lives, without any power to be seen or to affect them. I guess it was a kind of loneliness. But then I imagined that down there, in that sea of humanity, people were praying. Maybe I couldn't see them, but they were there. Some of them were laying in bed, reaching out to God. Some of them in their cars sending thoughts to heaven.
I had this moment of understanding, a window into that aspect of God's relationship with us: In a sense God is like I was, watching us, desiring this sea of people, despite their hectic lives, to turn their attention to Him. And when, against the odds, people do, how wonderful that must be to (proverbially) look down and see faithful people. Prayer is a loving act.
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