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Archive for January, 2007

Works of art

How would you like to compose a short song that will start the day for 200 million PC users? Those are high stakes for such a small piece of music. Microsoft spent 18 months with a team of 20 composers, sound designers, engineers, and developers, to develop the small musical jingle that will play every […]

In the snow

Wednesday morning Cyndi got up at 5:30 AM to check the weather. It had
been snowing all night and it was cold outside, in the 20s. She tried
several different TV channels and finally found what she was looking
for: Midland schools were closed for the day. She wasn’t as happy
about that as I thought she’d be; closing […]

Search for understanding

I have a friend who has effectively separated himself and his family from the world, from their church, and from their family. They closely guard their children’s exposure to the outside world, which includes their own cousins. They won’t go to church, even the church he grew up in, but instead have home church. They […]

Back and forth

After Cyndi and I got home from our Christmas holiday adventure in northeast New Mexico, I realized one of the best parts about being back is sleeping in our own bed. That was the first thought I thought the next morning when I woke up and slid across the bed and up against Cyndi: It […]

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