Here’s the video of the Hope House, an office building housing international ministry offices, floating down Mill Creek and crumbling under the bridge at I-24. Lighthouse Church and School is generally okay, but they have had some flooding in their preschool building. More rain is moving through, but the water is finally going through. 

Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The…

Yesterday I reset my default browser from Firefox to Google Chrome. Over the weeks I found myself turning more and more to Chrome, finding it cleaner and faster. While I like the extensibility of Firefox, that extensibility also slows things down a bit, and Firefox still has a tendency to use a lot of memory in operation. Chrome is simpler (dumber, some might say) which means that it runs fast and renders quickly.

There are some things that I miss from Firefox, especially in the right click menu options in the ability to copy different things to the clipboard, but the speed in Chrome finally has made it the browser of choice.

I have been trying for far too many years to find a good integrated solution for organizing my contacts. Every program I’ve found, be it Outlook or Plaxo (my two most commonly used applications) are pretty limited in their offerings, and don’t play well with others. I’ve held our hopes for Google contacts, but it simply isn’t quite there yet. I may be headed back to Outlook because of the integration with Plaxo, but I sure don’t want to.

Thirty states have struck such deals with banks that include Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase and US Bancorp, an Associated Press review of the agreements found. All the programs carry fees, and in several states the unemployed have no choice but to use the debit cards. Some banks even charge overdraft fees of up to $20 — even though they could decline charges for more than what’s on the card.

I’m sorry but this is just wrong.

When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.

May I go on the record at how bizarre this is? Someone please tell me what credentials this guy has to advise anyone on anything.