Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

I thought it would be cool to purchase myself an iPod. I have this horrible awful taste in my mouth now.

A) I have two choices to sync my music, iTunes or MusicMatch. Neither of which I like. My music is already meticulously tagged and organized on my hard drive. I don't need a program to do it for me. If I want to drag/drop my files to the external storage which happens to provide playback, more's the better.

B) My iPod nano has been 'alive' for all of 72 hours now, and it's already locked up. Where's the power button? Where's the reset button? I don't really feel like spending the time to find out how to reset it.

1 Toggle the Hold switch on and off (set it to Hold, and then turn it off again).

2 Press and hold the Center and Menu buttons for at least 6 seconds, until the

C) When I leave Apple feedback on their site at this URI http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html today. I expect to be able to leave appropriate feedback - They had no listing for my iPod model or my iTunes version. I had to list it in the comments text-box.

I appreciate that they finally put out a product I wanted to buy, however, this is not ensuring my already lacking confidence in the company. I'm probably going to take it back to the store at this point and go buy a competing product if I don't get some satisfaction by the end of the day.

I'm sure of it now that Apple caters mostly to mindless people who accept these product flaws as quirks. Sorry, I don't put up for it from anyone.

This is not by any means an original idea, but I think it came out well for 5 minutes in Paint.Net. My boss is a Porsche nut, and he was having me print some banners for use in the local porsche owners club. I also made this as a free bonus for him.

I’ve been having a pretty deep conversation with a guy I know about a Christian response to the ‘threat’ of Islam in the world. How is a Christian called to respond from the Bible? Should we round them up and kill them? Should we just be idle and let them take over politically? (and all that it implies) I think that there’s something in between that is correct.

I want to live in peace with all people of every religion. You have the right in America to worship as you see fit, so long as it does not affect other people. Our constitution protects you from that. Our constitution also protects a religion from allowing it’s members to murder anyone else.

I have a healthy fear that says, “yeah, that Muslim is taught to kill people who aren’t muslim in the Koran” “Yeah, that muslim knows that if he does it, he’s going to be charged with first degree murder and locked up for the rest of his natural life”

Why is a Christian so afraid of being killed for his faith, that he would rather take torch and kill that other person before he does it to him? Jesus did not come to save his people by using a sword, he came to save them through love and compassion. He let his own creation kill him, without saying a word in his own defense. Thats the kind of example I want to follow. You can call me a coward, you can call me a pacifist. I call myself a Christian, and I want to act the way Christ acted.