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There’s a bug in my system
I worked on my laptop in the dining room last week. Two of us created teaching materials for our church groups. I saved the drafts and put them out of my mind until this morning.
My morning reading sounds like a setting for a MMORPG. There’s even a promise of two more levels at the end.
Revelation 9.1-12
9 –>And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit;2 –>he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.3 –>Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth.4 –>They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.5 –>They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone.6 –>And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 –>In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,8 –>their hair like women???s hair, and their teeth like lions??? teeth;9 –>they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.10 –>They have tails like scorpions, with stings, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months.11 –>They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,Destruction+e –> and in Greek he is called Apollyon.Destroyer+e –>
12 –>The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby‘s catalog into the iTunes Music Store.
iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the major labels. Many of us in the music biz were not sure this idea was going to work. Especially those who had seen companies like eMusic do this exact same model for years without big success.
I flew to Cupertino thinking I’d be meeting with one of their marketing or tech people. When I arrived, I found out that about a hundred people from small record labels and distributors had also been invited.
We all went into a little presentation room, not knowing what to expect.
Then out comes Steve Jobs. Whoa! Wow.
Read the article in full – it’s downhill from here
Which just goes to show how big corporations live in a different world to small companies – they don’t even speak the same language or use the same currency. Small business live on their wits and their cashflow – big ones like Apple carve out their progress like a supertanker – and supertankers are not known for being able to sidestep a small dingy – sadly it has to be the dingy owner who gives way.
How does this work?
I’m having a clear out and I’ve just found this old slide rule. Strangely it was sold by Boots the Chemists in a range called Ringplan. Now – can I remember how to use it?