We’re Moving… Kinda
So we put our house up on the market to sell late last week. Being that the housing market is in a pinch we thought we would try and take advantage of cheaper than normal housing costs. While we haven’t had much traction just yet with selling the house, we’re hopeful that we can turn it pretty quickly.
If you want to lease/buy, let me know and I’ll get my people in touch with your people. Yeah, it’s like that; i’ve got people. 
Ella’s First Memory Verse
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life.”
HD Format of the Future?
So as we are all aware by now there’s the whole Blu-Ray vs HDDVD debate on which HD movie/video format will win. While it seems to be clearer these days that Blu-Ray is going to be the winner with multiple studios announcing the allegiance to Sony’s Blu-Ray format, I’m not convinced that the future of HD content will even be on Blu-Ray. Why? Keep reading.
As I’ve stated before, I think that the wave of the future is going to be medialess - meaning that there will be no tangible media for movies and content. Look, it’s quite simply the trend that we see now. All your favorite movie rental places are coming out with a download or on-demand video service, such as Blockbuster & Netflix. Even Apple is starting to get in the game with their revamped Apple TV product, which lets you download some movies in HD format.
So how is this going to be accomplished? How are the big ISP’s going to manage that much bandwidth and streaming media over their networks? Well, I guess you could start by saying that they are commiting to better connectivity such as fiber-to-the-curb service by both AT&T and Verizon. But what about all that bandwidth moving through the internet and major backbones? It’s not! And I’ll tell you why. While I think that clearly the future for HD content is in fact medialess and will be streamed over major transit carriers, the way that it has to be done is via set-top boxes in a BitTorent model. About two years ago I wrote an article about ISP v2.0 and streaming media to a set-top box as a media center PC replacement. However, being that I work for an ISP (Speakasy) I don’t think that streaming media in it’s final state is going to go over the net. Rather, it’s got to be localized and supported by BitTorrent set-top boxes so that media can be delivered locally on last mile connections rather than upstream on the major carrier backbones. Here’s a great article over at Wired on Myka’s new BitTorrent set-top-box; it’s a pretty good read.
Watch folks, HD media v2.0, set-top-box v2.0, and ISP v2.0 will be born soon. All your content will go right into your living room without inserting or ejecting a tangible disc.
NCAA Finals: Memphis Loses on Free-throws
Funny - coach from Memphis all year long defends his team that they are ranked like 300 in all NCAA bball teams on free-throw percentage. He constantly says that it’s not a big deal. Welp, free throws lost them the game. Up by 2 points, shooting 2 free-throws with like 15 seconds left they miss two free-throws. Kansas ties the ball game up and takes it to over time. Kansas wins.
Lesson learned kids; free-throws wins championships, just like your high-school coach told you.
Reflection: Faith & Deeds
Over the past couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of reflection on my life, God’s Will for my life, and serving his greater purpose. This is something that I have really been convicted about:
“Because I have faith that God will always meet my needs and take care of me, I am able to be on mission for the Lord as he has called me to be.”
This stemmed from me innately trying to do everything on my own (even if in fact it is noble and honorable) and realizing that I’m missing what the Lord has for me in furthering his Kindom.