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Comment on Gmail ‘Noname’ Attachment Bug by Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:07:33 +0000

I just want to reiterate what Grant said, this works.

Follow this link and save the noname file in your home folder, run the script in terminal and blamo! a working file… sweet!

http://drobertadams.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

Comment on Gmail ‘Noname’ Attachment Bug by Grant

Grant — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:57:42 +0000

Although it’s been a long time since this bug bit me, bit me again it did this morning. I tried both of the solutions given by “A concerned gmailer” listed in his comment above. The first one didn’t work: w/couldn’t be downloaded after conversion. But the second one worked… with some adaptation to his instructions. Rather than saving the “noname” file to the Desktop, save it to your Mac’s home folder.

Comment on Pearl Bailey: Jingle Bells Cha-cha-cha by ap

ap — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:10:43 +0000

Loved it! Thanks, now I want to play it over and over again!

Comment on “Why did you leave Heritage Bible Church?” by Grant

Grant — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:13:39 +0000

Praise the Lord, Josh! You’ve hit the nail square on the head. There are no dispensations of grace, no differences between saving grace and sanctifying grace: it’s all one big, wonderful, pervading, consuming, OCEAN of grace!

Comment on “Why did you leave Heritage Bible Church?” by Josh

Josh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:59:30 +0000

I’ve been following this conversation with interest. I find myself in the same position as many of you. During my first year as a graduate assistant working on my master of divinity degree I began to seriously question the pragmatic philosophy of the school as well as the prevailing position and direction of fundamentalism. I began to covertly study things out for myself and was struck by the contradiction between the teaching of grace in Scripture and the legalistic culture fostered on campus. Eventually I had my own “eureka!” moment when I realized that we live each day completely by grace; the same measure of grace (100%) necessary for our justification is the same needed for our sanctification. I didn’t know it at the time but after reading your post Grant, apparently this is basic Reformed Theology. Thank you for sharing your story, it has encouraged me and many others.

Comment on The Final Nail in Outlook’s Coffin by Grant

Grant — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:32:03 +0000

Maybe they’ll fix that. But since you can reach gCal through Safari, at least it’s not like the keys are locked in the car.

Comment on The Final Nail in Outlook’s Coffin by Edge

Edge — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:22:34 +0000

Sadly the synched calendars are not editable in the iPhone’s calendar app.

Comment on “Why did you leave Heritage Bible Church?” by Grant

Grant — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:16:42 +0000

I’ve read Blue Like Jazz — love it! I’ll have to check out Bell’s book.

As someone who’s been in both camps, let me tell you: being in a PCA church is NOTHING like being at BJU.

Although I could say that there are aspects of the emergent movement that I find resonance with, the reason I left BJU wasn’t because I was looking for a different religious experience or a new way to look at my faith. I left BJU because they chose to place policies and politics above Scripture. When I pointed that out to them, they showed me the door. It’s really ironic to note that my problems with BJU began when I took the Scriptures more seriously than they did.

Comment on “Why did you leave Heritage Bible Church?” by tj

tj — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:42:54 +0000

Interesting website Grant. I have some friends from BJU and they seem like nice people, but I can tell that the system there is very monolithic. I also have some friends in the PCA and they seem to hold to a very monolithic system as well. Why not avoid such monolithic structures altogether and enjoy the freedom of a more emergent model? Blue Like Jazz and Velvet Elvis are huge for me right now — check em out!

Comment on After Bailout, AIG Execs Head to California Resort by Grant

Grant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:05:17 +0000

Unreal. Via Bloomberg:

American International Group Inc., the insurer that said yesterday it scrapped bonuses for top executives after a U.S. bailout, will still pay 130 managers “cash awards” to stay with the firm, including $3 million to retirement services chief Jay Wintrob.

Wintrob, 51, will get the “retention” payment in two installments, the first in April 2009 and the rest a year later, New York-based AIG said today in a regulatory filing. The firm previously disclosed the program in a Sept. 26 filing and said today that Wintrob and Chief Financial Officer David Herzog elected to get the payments four months later than planned.

“The expectation from the public and Congress was that they weren’t getting bonuses, not that they’d be pushed off by several months,” said David Schmidt, a consultant at executive pay firm James F. Reda & Associates. “That clearly violates the spirit of AIG saying they’ll forgo their bonuses.”