Voicestream Changed?

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Whoa, whoa! When did Voicestream become T-Mobile all of a sudden?!

I use a prepaid phone reloaded every other month with $50 of pay-as-you-go minutes, to spare myself the troubles of a billed subscription, and my phone service has gone uninterrupted this whole time. I only found out about the switch today, through Dean’s entry about T-Mobile customer service.

Hmmm, well, my SMS form still works, and I’ve been able to log into AIM. Still, maybe I should upgrade to a subscription when this last prepaid card expires. Their website doesn’t even mention prepaid services anymore, as far as I can tell.

Update: Okay, I just talked to customer service, and they say nothing’s changed for my service other than the name of the company. Yay.

Mobile Blog in Da House

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<? if (filemtime("mobile/mobile.html") > filemtime("blog.php")) include "mobile/mobile.html"; ?>

And with that line of code in my template, the mobile blog is back, publishing the day’s posts to the main blog file whenever I text an entry from my phone. The if-filemtime-include combination means that mobile entries disappear after I post a MT entry, but that’s okay with me.

Art Car

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Baltimore “art car,” decorated with shells, bottles, an accordion, and other “found” objects.

Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP.

Defying Hyperreality

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Lest you think all we do in Digital Arts is sit around in paint-splattered coveralls fiddling with our G4’s: my response paper to two chapters of Silvio Gaggi’s From Text to Hypertext, in which I raise a defiant fist to the poststructural utopias of new media philosophers.

Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of the postmodern hyperreality figure strongly in our studies of new media, and I’m mildly skeptical of his vision of an utterly ubiquitous open network within which all our paradigms will be permanently changed. My bias towards the need for an objective absolutism comes out in my response, probably owing to my core belief in an Absolute upon which my

Weltanschauung is founded.

Basically I’m saying The Matrix won’t happen. So uh, yeah, there.

Da Jesus Book

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Hey, who needs Eugene Peterson’s The Message when you can read Da Jesus Book?

“God, you our Fadda. You stay inside da sky. We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay, An dat you stay good an spesho, An we like dem give you plenny respeck …. Cuz you our King. You get da real power, An you stay awesome foeva. Dass it!”

(via MeFi)

Worship at FCF

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I worshipped this morning at FCF with Elizabeth Byrch, and it was pretty good. Putting aside the RPW and other such Reformed worship issues, I found the service to be meaningful and Spirit-filled, and the congregation decent and friendly. I think this is my first time attending at a PCA church, though the format of the service was more “mainstream modern evangelical,” as I like to call it — quite similar to the services I attended at GCF, my old home church in Manila.

I’m considering joining, but first I need to mull over whether it’s theologically honest for me to do so. I am still a Baptist at heart, with certain issues over covenantalism and the Reformed faith. This is something I need to pray over at length.

Tonight I’ll be off to MICA to meet up with the student Christian fellowship, Koinonia. Most of whom, I’m told, are Reformed. Could it be a sign?

Free Phone!

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I bought a simple desk phone for my room, on sale at the hardware store for $10. When I opened it, I found a rebate form: for $10.