Harmful Cliches?

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“There are some phrases out there that I think people overuse. People expect me to jump into motivational talks or use my life story to comfort someone … But I don’t spew your typical cliché advice.” Rachelle Friedman at HuffPo

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A Few Site Updates

A couple of site improvements are undergoing testing this weekend, one already in progress.

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Low Cost Church Sign

I am looking for a new sign for our church. So far I am getting bids of $8,000 to $16,000. Does anyone have any good ideas on how to develop/purchase a sharp looking sign that doesn’t cost so much?

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Time-limited comment editing

We’re testing time limited comment editing again. Had this feature more most of a couple of years then lost it for a while with the site upgrade last fall.

For those curious about why we’d want to limit editing time on comments, it’s basically this: frequent editing long after posting tends to result in threads that become incoherent because people have posted in response to stuff that isn’t there anymore.

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Read counter

There is clearly a problem with the read statistics calculations currently. They may be disabled soon for a while to troubleshoot.

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Amazon purchases

The front page of SharperIron says “Help SI pay the bills. Do your Amazon purchasing from here.”

Exactly how does one do that?

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Windows MovieMaker

I have a .mov file I want to shrink down to post to YouTube. However, my Wind7 Home won’t let me open MovieMaker even though the program is installed on on it. Any ideas on:

  1. How to get MovieMaker to work?
  2. Another program (Freeware or Shareware)?

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Face-to-Face with Jim Welch and Joel Tetreau

Ran into Jim Welch and Joel Tetreau at Shepherd’s Conference…

Also met up with Don Johnson and Lou Martuneac, but they declined to be photographed… [/sarcasm: ;-)

Some more of my SC photos here.

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