43: All Tweets On Deck
2009-02-02
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Pop-Up: Tweet Deck
- An Adobe AIR application that allows you to view and post tweets
- Check out Episode 27 for more info on twitter
- Twitter Aggregator and organizer
- Makes following large numbers of twitter users manageable
- Create columns based on groups of people
- Create columns based on twitter searches
- View a cloud of common words being used on twitter
- Apply keyword filters to each column
- 5 out of 5 stars, it makes twitter even more useful, and helps you discover trends throughout the day.
Geek-Tweak: How to make simple formulas in Open Office Calc
- Start Open Office Calc
- Select the top left cell and type a number in it.
- Select the cell to the right of that one and type a different number in it.
- Select the next cell to the right and type the equals sign.
- Click on the first cell
- Press the plus sign
- Click on the second sell
- Press Enter.
- Cool, we just added two numbers...
- Now start typing in more numbers in the first two columns in the next 5 rows.
- Now select the third cell from the left on the top (C1)
- Put your mouse over the little box in the lower right corner of the cell, your cursor should change to a plus or cross-hair.
- Click that box and drag down for 5 rows and release the mouse button.
- Sweet! It just turned that whole right column into the sum for each row.
- Now, select the first unused cell in the third column (should be directly below the last sum)
- Click the "SUM button", it looks like a weird "E" (Greek Sigma)
- It should highlight all of the existing sums in that column, so just hit Enter
- Great! Now we have a total of all the sums!
- Want to get really crazy? Start playing with multiplication using the asterisk and division using the forward slash.
View-Source: Take it like a Christian
- You've heard the phrase "Take it like a man" which basically means to hide any emotions and just roll with the punches.
- Taking it like a Christian is much more valuable, and ten times as hard.
- As a human, I love to justify things I want to do, and I've become quite good at it.
- The best way to justify what you want to do, is use logic without biblical principles.
- Illustration: My friend not paying for dinner at a restaurant due to the horrible service and a worm found in our salad.
- Instruction: Matthew 5:38-48 basically tells us that regardless of how stuff went down, we are to behave as Christians in a loving and humble manner.
- Implementation: In the situation described earlier, my friend should have told the waiter before we continued eating that we were uncomfortable in their restaurant, and would like to leave paying only for what had been served to us.
- I know what you are thinking, what?! the food had a WORM in it! You shouldn't have to pay for it!
- Yeah, but remember verse that says if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles... well, if the restaurant wants you to only pay half, and you only pay half, aren't you just meeting expectations? Aren't you just doing what the world does?
- By doing things that are obviously out of the ordinary we can set a high standard, and give all of the glory and credit to our relationship with Christ and our loving Heavenly Father.
- The chapter closes with an incredibly difficult challenge "Be Perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
- Uh oh, sounds like one of those crazy hard things that we can't do on our own... looks like we'll just have to rely on God for strength, and just take life one event at a time, setting our standards much higher than the world would have us believe is required.
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