Mr. Polehn writes

    The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn based stratagy game set in your typical fantasy world.  Wesnoth is a ton of fun, as long as you can look past it's outdated graphics which granted most free open source games have.  It has a great style about it in my opinion and is fairly addictive.  This game is easy to get the hang of and could compete with many commercial stratagy games of the same style.

    One of the things I have been doing very little of for the last several years is PC gaming.  This is probably mostly due to a complete lack of a Windows machine in my life.  Plus with all of the great games available for Android my needs as a casual gamer are more than met.     However, this years humble bundled has reignited my interest in PC gaming.  I got it and installed a couple of the games on my Ubuntu machine.  So far they are a lot of fun especially VVVVVV .  This got me asking "what else can I play on Ubuntu?"  Turns out there is a plethora of free open source games, some awesome, some not so much.  Many are available from the   Ubuntu Software Center and many you have to hunt down around the web.     One thing that keeps many Windows users from Ubuntu (or any Linux OS for that matter) is a supposed lack of games.  This is simply not the case.  While yes many of the commercial PC games are only available for Windows or at best OS X, there are many free

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Jesus was and is the God of the bible.  Today we celebrate him coming as a helpless child.  Happy incarnation day! http://bible.us/John1.14.ESV

    I recently stumbled upon a tutorial on how to  setup ownCloud on a Debian machine .  I had actually never heard of ownCloud until reading this tutorial but now it is one of the projects I am most excited about.  ownCloud is an open source project that allows you to use your own server to store files, songs and do a bunch of other stuff.  It is similar to the many cloud services available on the web except it never leaves your "custody."     One very easy way to start using ownCloud is to install ownCloud 1.1 from the Ubuntu repository by running:  $ sudo apt-get install owncloud     However, ownCloud 1.1 is pretty boring compared to the super sexiness of ownCloud 2.0 in my opinion.  So if you are cool with drab old 1.1 then go ahead and just apt-get it.  But if you want the sexiness of 2.0 on your Ubuntu server please follow along... Getting ownCloud 2 up and running! Log into your Ubuntu server and install the necessary packages: $ sudo apt-get install apac

    In a republic like ours one of the greatest things we can do as citizens to influence legislation is to write our representatives and senators to voice our opinion.  For this hour in history I strongly suggest writing your representative in congress against SOPA.  The Stop Online Piracy Act will allow the U.S. Government to use DNS blocking; the same method used by the PRC , Iran and Syria to censor The Internet and keep there citizens in the dark.     Please help fight SOPA !  Fellow The Dallesians and eastern Oregonians please email  Greg Walden .  You can also sign a petition at whitehose.gov to let the white house know what we think about this bill and where they can shove it.

    The easy winner is in my book is The Bible App  from YouVersion and LifeChurch.tv .  It is by far the most popular Bible application on android and was one of the 100 most downloaded apps for both iPhone and iPad.     The Bible App has just about every Bible translation you can think of from the KJV to the Message.  Many of which are downloadable for offline use for free in case you are ever off network and still want the convenience of reading on your phone.  It also has several languages with multiple translations for most languages.     One of my favorite things about YouVersion is that they have literally hundreds of  reading plans for those of us who need a little help figuring out what to read.  There are whole Bible reading plans for reading the entire bible in some amount of time, typically a year.  My personal favorite is the  M'Cheyne one year reading plan.  The also have topical reading plans about a wide variety of topics and partial Bible reading plans, fo

    One of my favourite missions organizations, Gospel for Asia , has an excellent Christmas catalogued , for giving to those in need in Asia.  You can give an animal, which as Alton Brown says is like giving someone a small business .  People can sell eggs from chickens, milk from goats, etc. Also you can give blankets, fishing nets, even a well.     One thing that I love about Gospel for Asia is that they promise to send 100% of your donation to the missions field.  So if you worry about middle men pocketing money this is a good organization for you to give to.  Everything that you give to GFA goes directly to people working in one of the areas that is most untouched by the gospel of Jesus Christ.