Fuzzy Thinking

It’s been a while since I posted last. Thought I shoudl at least get on and post that I have been accepted to the Doctoral program at Asbury Theological Seminary. I’ve been accepted to start the January 2006 session.

This means a couple of things for me. One, it means that I must get back to reading, thinking, writing, etc. It also means that I will have to figure out how to pay for all of this.

I’m not sure which will be harder. Right now my attitude is to just do this and see how far I get. I’ve discovered time and time again that God seems to surprise me and do things that I don’t always expect Him to do.

Hopefully I can get on and write more later. I also may setup some type of paypal account or something if anyone wants to help me fund this thing!

» CA targets Sony DRM as spyware | Spyware Confidential | ZDNet.com

Here’s another reason why you should probably stay away from any CD produced by Sony until they have this mess cleaned up…. (see link above). You might want to check out the ’steps’ one has to go through to uninstall Sony’s spyware….

Jesus has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear His cross - Imitation of Christ

I was able to get gas today for $2.17….happy days are here again!

PCWorld.com - Sony Uncloaks Hidden DRM Code

I thought I’d post a link to an article about Sony’s music recent practice of installing “copy protection” software that has the potential of making your computer instable and opening up your system to hackers.

This is a pretty big deal and has caused me to decide not to buy a CD by my favorite band Switchfoot (take time to look at some of the comments about the CD. The music/lyrics are supposed to be awesome, but many mention the code that is dropped on your system.)

The other issue is that because of the software, the CD may or _may NOT_ play on your regular CD player. At this time I’m not sure I want to drop $16 to find out I have limited access to the music. I’m pretty bummed about this….

If you have played a Sony Music CD on your computer, you can go to this web site and grab a free copy of Rootkit Revealer which will let you know if you have this, or other, rootkit type of software installed on your system.

It seems like it is very hard to remove this software, but Sony has a here allowing you to download software that is suppose to remove the software.

For more information, check these sites:

A working list of CDs
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Happy listening……