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This is Michael O'Connell's Blog... a big bunch of random ramblings, mostly about techie stuff and Christianity.
Programming
Linux
The Next Generation
One of the most essential tasks that the Lord expects from each generation is that they are faithful to raise up another generation. Based on Malachi 4:5-6.Duration: 0:27:04Crowning of the King
The gospel is far more than just the salvation of our souls. Jesus' death on the cross, the crown of thorns which lay on his head had cosmological implications.Duration: 0:49:08An Overview of the Bridal Paradigm
Michael O'Connell - Bridal Paradigm 02.10.08.mp3One of the key revelations that God is revealing right now is that he is a bridegroom. This sermon is a overview from genesis to revelation of the biblical support for this relational metaphor as well as the most important aspects of the bride bridegroom relationship.
Duration: 0:30:55Predestined to Adoption
2 - Predestined to Adoption.mp3What does it mean that we were predestined to adoption? What is biblical sonship, and why is it important? Based on Ephesians 1:5-6.
Duration: 0:24:06A Good Theme
01 - A Good Theme.mp3An exegesis of Psalm 45
Duration: 0:25:25Sermons
Konverted
Well, i've been konverted. I don't think I've used kde for more than 10 minutes sense I've switched to Ubuntu. The kde4 release was notoriously bad, but even the later updates didn't really fix most of the issues with it.
Anyway, I've been trying it out on Jaunty and it seems pretty stable. There are definitely a few rough spots, but this much is clear to me. That the massive refactoring they did with kde4 is starting to pay off. Gtk+ seems pretty much stuck in the mud, and although gnome had really begun to be very well refined, it is clear that it will not be capable rapid innovation the way that kde is moving.
The kde window manager has a very smooth feel to it, compiz had all kinds of issues with screen artifacts on my nvidia card. Kate is a fantastic text editor (much better than gedit). The music player Amorok is very polished and works with my mp3 player. The PIM tools are fairly good.
Having sung it's praises, kde 4 still has a way to go. The network manager interface is junk. The bluetooth tray icon crashes. I'm still using synaptic to do my package management, the kde version is missing several important features. One thing I'm pretty confident of though, the next year or two should see dramatic improvements on the kde front where gnome will remain gnome.

Gray Tree Frog
This guy was nice and still so I could take a picture of him!