To be a devoted Christian comes with many challenges. The west has had it easy as we have not have much persecution from the secular world or the authorities. In the west I believe the time is coming when as a Christian there will times when just saying just are a Christian, a child of the light or a follower of Jesus will get killed. The rise of Islam is where most of this persecution will come from and the rest will be from Government authorities. People might think I am an alarmist, but just look at history. Governments and groups have risen to persecute the church of the Christ before and they will do it again. The Roman Empire tried to silence Christian by forming the Catholic church, silencing and controlling believer, yet the faithful still continued even under threat of death if they went against Rome. Islam has tired to wipe out Christians. It I am not talking about a religious organisation when I mean silencing and persecuting, they can be shutdown. People can still meet in house and in other areas. The ones who will persecuted are the ones who Believe Jesus is the Messiah who died for our sins and who believe in the authority and power of the Bible and publicly declaring it.

So my questions to all you Christians out there or more rightly so children of the light and sons and daughter of the most high God are you ready to be persecuted for your faith? The Global system is falling into place and the clock is counting down. Its time for the Church of God to rise and preach the Gospel, in season or out of season. The Devil Lucifer does not want anyone to be saved and keep Christians locked up in day to day living. Let’s rise up and helped open the eyes of many people so that Jesus sacrificed will not be in vain and there spirit and soul will be saved.

Its time to get out there now. Tougher times are ahead. Lets preach the Gospel. Being a Christian is not about religion is about a relationship with our creator and salvation from our sins and separation from God. Jesus died to cleanse us and bring back to communion with God. Its not about ritual. Rituals and man made religious practice will not save anyone, only Jesus sacrifice is enough. Lets preach the Good News before we are silenced.

Then when Jesus returns to take us into his kingdom He will say ‘well done good and faith servant’.

Rise up Church, Rise up.

It is a simple aggregator and feeds are easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. Updated from wxgtk2.6 to wxPythonGTK 2.8.

I have included Mandriva 2008.1 Spring build including source. Please give any feed back to the Icepodder developers as they love to hear how much you enjoy Icepodder.

RPM: Mandriva 2008. 1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 65

SRPM: Mandriva 2008.1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 65 source

To get the latest source:

svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder

Happy Carbon Belch Day

Information Week Article

The methods people go to voice an argument.

A pity it’s not April Fools Day.

This year saw more layouts and stalls then any year previous.

Ticket price for old was quite cheap entertainment, considering my son got in for free being under 5.

The detail and effort being put in the dioramas is getting better and the techniques easier. Some new layout had used these techniques and made some really life like displays.

The newer make of engines now come with their own sound and engine noise. Also the new engines are controlled digitally via a handset. This means the whole track will be live and the train will only move if the control box contains the signature of the train. This makes the displays very life like as you can run two trains on the same line without interference.

This year (as always) the ‘Thomas the Tank Engine: ride on engine was there. My son loves this most of all. The Epping Model Railway Club also had a setup for kids to use with Thomas the Tank Engine trains on it.

These events attract enthusiasts or just people who have a small interest.

This is one of the events on my calendar every year. Can’t wait till the next one.

The contractor scans the RFID chip. Checks what items are inside the bins and makes notes.

It is only a matter of time and I can see them fining people if they have put what they consider to be recyceable material in the main waste bin.

Zdnet had a recent update article on the program.

It is a simple aggregator and feeds and easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. It easily It now allows you to open downloads into Amarok or a media player of you choice.

So sharing my joy. I have posted my Mandriva 2008.1 build including source for you Mandriva users to use and abuse. Please give any feed back to the Icepodder developers as they love to hear how much you enjoy Icepodder.

RPM: Mandriva 2008. 1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 64

SRPM: Mandriva 2008.1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 64 source

To get the latest source:

svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder

I am amazed at how easy it is to track down lost friends from years ago. Friends I went to Bible College with, who live oversea, old family friends, teacher even.

I consider Facebook to better than Myspace. it also seems to attract a more mature crowd.

So to those Facebookers out there. Happy Social Networking.

Council’s these the days are now going to great lengths to insure that we are recycling and doing the right thing with our waste. The problem I have is the lengths that some Council’s are taking to ensure we comply with their recycling Policies.  TI-RFid has now been inplmented in Ryde and Randwick councils; see the SMH article on Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in. This will be used to measure the weight of bins, time of collection of bins.

“But the councils insist they are not spying on their residents’ waste habits, or planning to use the technology to increase waste levies in the future.

They say they are using the data to help identify areas where people are not recycling enough.”

“Bin weight data will help identify average bin weights by type and suburb. This information will also be used to develop waste education material,” a Randwick City Council spokeswoman, Alexandra Power, said.”

What this shows is that council’s believe they need to monitor their residents as they can not trust them to do the right thing. This could show that Council’s are trying to measure usage with the aim to charge more on the customer if their waste is high. Well only time will tell. Will be interesting to watch its progress and whether other waste services and Council’s will adopt similar strategies.

Today we remembered the Life of Ena Vera (Green) Banks 1911-2008. Who passed away last Monday. We had her funeral at Pine grove cemetery this afternoon. She got to see so much in her life; the advent of cars, transition from steam to diesel to electric trains, the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the advent of the computer, which we now take for granted. She was a women before her time. She was a women’s liber before the Women’s Liberation movement existed. She always believed in the rights of women. She was one of the first women in Australia to break the norm and wear pants, which in her day was unheard of and was frowned upon. Women were unable to buy pants then so she and her sisters made their own. She has left behind a great legacy. 4 children, 16 grand-children and 36 great-grand-children. Her greatest praise was instilling into her children the strong bond that family brings and passing this down the generations. You will be greatly missed.

First I had problem when my account which was created on the 10th February was lost after a server outage, which resulted in the installation of new servers in the data centre.  At this time my credit card had been billed. I had not been informed of the problem and subsequently had to call to find out why my credit card was billed but no existing service was available. They apologized for the outage. So they were able to recreate my account and issue me with a new set of name servers.

On the last three ocassions in the last 30 days, I have had 3 outages caused due to problems with DNS routing with my name servers. This also affected everyone else who was hosted on the same server. Each time I have had fairly quick resolution. The problem; why is this constantly happening? What are they doing? Who in the company keeps playing with the DNS settings?

 I have never had any issues with my old hosting in Sydney SISgroup, on their Sun Debian servers.

They have one last chance and then I’m hunting for a new host.