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Today is our fifth anniversary. The Lord has blessed us with 5 wonderful years together, and I look forward to many more; that as with wine, only matures with age.
“I love you Angie and am thankful for all you do for me and the children the Lord has given us.”

Here is something I wrote to AnG when we got married.

How can I express
This feeling I have inside
The endless loving passion
When alas, I am so tongue tied

My heart swells with joy
Bursting at the seams
Overflowing with desire
And how much you mean to me

And now on this memorable night
Before all my oath is made known
To love, honor and care for
You, our children, our life
Now and forever, ‘till the end of time

By the grace of God and the power of the keys
Together we’ll be an unstoppable team
A threefold cord not easily broken
Let Jesus be our bond and token

Perty cool, if you ask me...but then again, did you ask?


In Kenya a trial project using handheld Pocket PCs could help reduce the costs of education in poor communities.

'Willing guinea pigs'

Classrooms are crowded, and the all-too-familiar scenario of children sharing outdated textbooks is still very much in evidence.

However, in Class Five, things are just a little bit different. Fifty-four 11-year-old students are willing guinea pigs in an extraordinary experiment aimed at using technology to deliver education across the continent.

In the Eduvision pilot project, textbooks are out, customised Pocket PCs, referred to as e-slates, are very much in.

They are wi-fi enabled and run on licence-free open source software to keep costs down.

"At the moment the e-slates only contain digitised textbooks, but we're hoping that in the future the students will be able to complete their assignments on these books and send them to the teacher, and the teacher will be able to grade them and send them back to the student."

Pocket PCs were chosen in place of desktops because they are more portable, so the children can take them home at night, and also because they're also cheaper, making them cost-effective alternatives to traditional methods of learning.

Read full story here at BBC...

13-Pound Baby Tips Scales At Milwaukee Hospital
A southeastern Wisconsin family now holds the record for the biggest baby born at the Birth Place at Columbia Center.

Milwaukee, WI --Delaney Jessica Buzzell was born last Thursday.

She tipped the scale at 13 pounds 12 ounces and was 22 inches long, Milwaukee television station WISN reported.

Her parents, Paul and Robin Buzzell have a history of bringing big babies into the world.

Delaney's older sisters, Cameron and Alexis, weighed 11 pounds 14 ounces and 10 pounds 8 ounces respectively when they were born.

The newborn was delivered by C-section, and the medical staff on hand did a double take.

"Biggest baby my doctor has ever delivered and the nurses, too. So, they said they put her on the scale twice. They just couldn't believe when they put it on that that was really what was reading," mom Robin Buzzell said.

Delaney was so big nurses didn't have diapers that fit.

At four days old, Delaney skipped the first stage clothing for infants and is already wearing 3 to 6 month clothing.

Paul Buzzell nicknamed Delaney "the big enchilada."

From wfmy2.com

Slideshow: Father "Excited And Shocked" After Birth Surprise

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

The road to success is not straight,
There is a curve called failure,
A loop called confusion,
Speed bumps called friends,
Red lights called enemies,
Caution lights called family,
You will have flats called jobs.
But ... If you have a spare called determination,
An engine called perserverance,
Insurance called faith,
A driver called Jesus,
You will make it to a place called success!

Ten-year-old girl is youngest ever Microsoft engineer?
ZDNet UK
July 18, 2005, 17:25 BST

Arfa Karim of Multan is the young lady who has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan. Karim, now aged 10, met with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates last week — an experience she later described as second only to visiting Disneyland.

Full story here...

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13-year old to address Linux conference
ZDNet Australia
February 02, 2005, 12:25 BST

Elizabeth, who has had a computer since she turned two, has been running Debian since the time she was nine. According to her bio on the conference speaker’s list, her installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a server before she had reached 10 years of age "proves that installing Debian really isn't very hard", although it should be noted that "Dad is around to answer questions" if trouble hits.

Full story here...