Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class

(Click for an 8-minute audio overview and description of the program. - http://www.worshipguitarclass.com/aff.htm?w=wcgs&p=a1192 -)

7 Reasons I Recommend Learn To Play the Guitar
with Jean Welles' Worship Guitar Class

1. Lifelong Enjoyment.
Playing provides a creative outlet, joy, and comfort.

2. Be a Blessing to Others.
Play for and with others, with their take-anywhere instrument.

3. Worship the Lord.
"Praise Him with stringed instruments" (Psalm 150:4).

4. Experience Immediate Success.
No previous music background is necessary.

5. Learn in the Convenience of Your Own Home.
No need to spend time going out to lessons.

6. Start Anytime.
And at any age, it's never too late to start!

7. Save Money.
Save hundreds of dollars compared to private lessons.

For more information visit:
http://www.worshipguitarclass.com/aff.htm?w=wcgs&p=a1192

TweetLater - I'm at the Beach!

Of all the social media programs popping up, I have definitely found Twitter the most fun and enjoyable. Multiple accounts support my passions and my business. At times things can get a little confusing!

My favorite Twitter tool is very quickly becoming TweetLater!

TweetLater allows me to schedule tweets, track keywords, vet new followers, shorten urls with bit.ly (so I can track clicks on links), send welcome DMs and more. And it is all for FREE!

Sure there is a professional upgrade version of TweetLater which has more features. But even the free version easily saves me two or three hours a day. Every day! So I can use those hours more productively at the beach.

Check out TweetLater today! And I'll see you at the beach!

New Linux.com Community

The Linux Foundation has launched the new Linux.com website. This promises to be an exciting, growing, interactive resource for Linux in particular and for Open Source in general.

For the community, by the community!

You can join the community at Linux.com/community

Tuz Replaces Tux to Heighten Awareness of Tasmanian Devil Threat

Some major events have taken place recently that I am just now learning about.

One is that Tux, the Linux mascot, is going on a walkabout. One rumor has him working as a barber for a while. While he is gone, the new mascot will be Tuz, a Tazmanian devil.

This major change was approved (initiated?) by Linus Torvalds himself to bring attention to the plight of the Tasmanian devil.

You can learn more about the Tasmanian devil and the deadly tumors which threaten their existence at Save The Tasmanian Devil.

This is the first I was aware of communicable facial cancers.

Linux Radio Spots and Helios

Helios and the Linux Community are encouraging the use and development of radio ads (spots) for promoting Linux, specifically, and FLOSS in general. Links have been provided to some basic audio tracks which can be used under Creative Commons licensing.

Ideas and clips are being sought, as well as funding for awards for the most creative use of these tracks. Many people have still not heard of Linux so these radio spots could be their first introduction. The basic tracks are of very good quality.

More info here:
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/search?q=radio

Philosophy of Harv's Hamshack Hack CD

Reprinted here is the philosophy of Harv's (AI9NL) Hamshack Hack

There should be hundreds ... thousands ... of CD's like this one available in the Amateur Radio community. Each and every interest group ... homebrewers to DX'ers, Antenna modelers to EmComm ... should have there own collections of software and systems. We are quickly approaching the era when the greater part of our radios will be built at the keyboard. Solder splatters on the floor and the smell of burning rosin in the air are quickly fading into memories.

LINUX is soooo Ham! You can take it apart, rebuild it, add to it, or subtract from it. You can engineer, re-engineer, or reverse-engineer the entire system. No one will say stop, but many will lend a hand to your effort. The guys we used to call "Elmer's" are now known as "gurus". They are equally knowledgeable, resourceful, and obliging. The big problem for many older hams is that these "gurus" may be only 12 years old! LINUX provides an exceptionally wide range of tools to help you complete your project. At its very roots, Linux is a sharing, co-operative, community effort ... the very basis of things "Ham".

The future of our hobby, regardless the course and meanders it eventually follows, will be bound to our computers. Your next "transceiver" may very likely be a PCI plugin card. If we greet the need to learn how to manipulate new tools as an imposition, rather than a creative opportunity, then we deserve to loose our bands to BPL ... or whatever the next outrageous corporate exploitation proposes.

Barack Obama - The First Open Source President?

Alex Castellanos, a CNN Analyst, discusses future President Obama's acceptance speech in relation to the definitive essay "The Cathedral and The Bazaar". He raises the question "Will Obama introduce a bottom-up government for the communication age versus the old top-down government of the industrial age?"

Interesting to me was hearing about the FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) paradigm shift in a political, government leadership role by someone far outside the software world.

View the video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4afdMalVA


The Cathedral and The Bazaar essay is available for free viewing at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/