I heard Francis Frangipane on a CD the other day in a writing seminar. He was talking about how whenever you have an urgent task to complete on the computer, and it bombs out on you. I’m sure we all can identify with that. Jerry Pournelle back in the days of “BYTE” magazine used to say that every machine had a “Critical Need Detector” (Or words to that effect) and whenever your task was the most urgent, that’s when the machine or computer decides to hang up or shut down or bomb out on you. Years ago, when I worked at the Computer/Graphics department at our jungle center in the Amazon, whenever we were preparing scripture to print to send out to the Indians we always asked for extra prayer that nothing would go wrong, because that was usually when things tended to happen - whenever there was something lifechanging being built.
I have experienced that this week as we were preparing to launch our new book Where There is Hope. Yesterday my home network went down and after multple re-boots of everything, and checking and double checking, four hours later it decided to come back, and I still don’t know what I did to make it come back. I think it was something I did with FIrewalls - but I suspect I still have the remains of an old Norton Firewall on my system which I have not been able to find nor remove.
Anyway, back to Francis Frangipane. He said “You know that little blinky thing? There’s a reason they call that the cursor!” My wife and I had a great laugh over that, and I immediately began to change the names of all my cursors to “blessors.” I mean we don’ wan’ no more cursors roun’ here. So from now on they are officially called “Blessors” and they will bless my computers instead of curse them. And it still helps to pray.
Blessings to you.
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I heard Francis Frangipane on a CD the other day in a writing seminar. He was talking about how whenever you have an urgent task to complete on the computer, and it bombs out on you. I’m sure we all can identify with that. Jerry Pournelle back in the days of “BYTE” magazine used to say that every machine had a “Critical Need Detector” (Or words to that effect) and whenever your task was the most urgent, that’s when the machine or computer decides to hang up or shut down or bomb out on you. Years ago, when I worked at the Computer/Graphics department at our jungle center in the Amazon, whenever we were preparing scripture to print to send out to the Indians we always asked for extra prayer that nothing would go wrong, because that was usually when things tended to happen - whenever there was something lifechanging being built.
I have experienced that this week as we were preparing to launch our new book Where There is Hope. Yesterday my home network went down and after multple re-boots of everything, and checking and double checking, four hours later it decided to come back, and I still don’t know what I did to make it come back. I think it was something I did with FIrewalls - but I suspect I still have the remains of an old Norton Firewall on my system which I have not been able to find nor remove.
Anyway, back to Francis Frangipane. He said “You know that little blinky thing? There’s a reason they call that the cursor!” My wife and I had a great laugh over that, and I immediately began to change the names of all my cursors to “blessors.” I mean we don’ wan’ no more cursors roun’ here. So from now on they are officially called “Blessors” and they will bless my computers instead of curse them. And it still helps to pray.
Blessings to you.
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