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December 2010

Luke 2:1-21 WEB

1 Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. 2 This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David; 5 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant. 6 It happened, while they were there, that the day had come that she should give birth. 7 She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. 9 Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 The…

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Southpoint…

Download now or listen on The Kyle File This is the Christmas program and service at Southpoint Community Church in Durham, NC, recorded on Sunday December 19, 2010. For more information, visit the Southpoint Community Church website, or if you live nearby, come on out to 5419 South Alston Avenue and worship with us. May God richly bless everyone who hears His words which He placed into the hearts of those heard in this digital recording.

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November 2010

For the record, I…

Who would go to a crowded room and pay to listen to a CD one time? You can’t pause the CD if you have to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and you can’t put your favorite song on repeat if you want. You just go in there and pay $5 to listen, and when it’s over, it’s over, and you go home disappointed because you wasted $5 on something you could have heard at home, and chances are you also wasted money on snacks and drinks that you could have bought elsewhere for a quarter of what you paid for them. Here’s the really crazy part: many people do this all the time, but instead of going to a crowded room and paying money to listen to a CD only once, they go to a crowded room and pay to watch a DVD only once. They can’t pause the DVD if they have to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and they spend way more than they need to for the snacks and drinks they get while they’re there. Worse still is the fact that the average movie ticket itself costs about a third of the price they could pay to…

Permanent link to “For the record, I don't go to movie theaters, not because I'm blind, but because it's pointless.”
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My request for…

Amazon Mechanical Turk is an open marketplace where businesses and individuals can offer payment for tasks to be done by large groups of people. These tasks are usually more suited to human beings than computers, and are distributed among a large group of people, similar to the way complex computational problems are broken down and distributed among large groups of computers. The available tasks include things such as judging the relevance of search results, separating the events that occur in a sentence and completing short surveys about behavior or perception of products or services. If your work is approved, your earnings are transferred within a couple of days to your Amazon Payments account, which is similar in a lot of ways to PayPal, and can be withdrawn to your bank account or an Amazon gift certificate at any time. Completing these tasks can be a lot of fun and is an easy way to make a little extra cash when you need it. But if you live with blindness or visual impairment,…

Permanent link to “My request for Amazon Mechanical Turk accessibility received a somewhat positive response but needs further attention.”
The pictures from…

I would like to thank the [American Red Cross][] and [Fenwal][] for the event and for the CD containing the pictures that I’m sharing here. This really means a lot, and I’m happy to continue giving my blood and blood products to save lives. [American Red Cross] (http://www.redcrossblood.org/) “American Red Cross: Give blood” [Fenwal] (http://www.fenwalinc.com/) “Fenwal Blood Technologies, Inc.” Posted via email from The Kyle File | Comment »

Permanent link to “The pictures from my Fenwal Hall of Fame event on Octover 27th are now online!”
Look for the Kyle!…

They even gave me a big party and lots of cool stuff. LOL. Fenwal, Inc. Blood Donor Hall of Fame I really can't stress enough the importance of giving blood and blood products. Your small sacrifice really does save lives. Call the American Red Cross or your local blood collection center to schedule an appointment to donate blood, platelets or plasma and give the gift of life. You can make a difference.

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October 2010

Permanent link to “Salvation must not be a once-in-a-lifetime decision. As Christians, we…”
"Revival Fire Fall"…

I was blessed to have the opportunity to sing this song with the CSC choir at the Awake Ahoskie 2010 revival service on Friday October 15th. I want to thank Joshua Knott for setting up the camera and recording the song, and I also want to thank Carpenter's Shop Church and God for giving me and Pastor Andrew Knott of Southpoint Community Church the blessed opportunity to worship with and minister to the people of Ahoskie.

Permanent link to “"Revival Fire Fall" recorded at Carpenter's Shop Church in Ahoskie, NC”
Permanent link to “Pictures from Awake Ahoskie revival service on Friday October 15th”
Permanent link to “Thank God all the miners have been rescued. Now stand with me in prayer…”
Permanent link to “Coffee cupping time! Come to Counterculture Coffee at 10:00 this morning…”

September 2010

Kyle kantas "La…

Download now or listen on The Kyle File En la mondon venis nova sento, Tra la mondo iras forta voko; Per flugiloj de facila vento Nun de loko flugu ĝi al loko. Ne al glavo sangon soifanta Ĝi la homan tiras familion: Al la mond' eterne militanta Ĝi promesas sanktan harmonion. Sub la sankta signo de l’ espero Kolektiĝas pacaj batalantoj, Kaj rapide kreskas la afero Per laboro de la esperantoj. Forte staras muroj de miljaroj Inter la popoloj dividitaj; Sed dissaltos la obstinaj baroj, Per la sankta amo disbatitaj. Sur neŭtrala lingva fundamento, Komprenante unu la alian, La popoloj faros en konsento Unu grandan rondon familian. Nia diligenta kolegaro En laboro paca ne laciĝos, Ĝis la bela sonĝo de l' homaro Por eterna ben' efektiviĝos.

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Permanent link to “It's time for another cupping at Counterculture Coffee. Join the Kyle at…”
Before "Don't ask,…

Think of it like this. If homosexuals are allowed to openly serve in the military, where should they sleep? Should we house them in barracks with the gender to which they are attracted? Do we house them in barracks with the opposite sex because homosexuals are not attracted to members of the opposite sex? In that case, they would still be seen as the only woman in the men's barracks or the only man in the women's barracks. Maybe we should have “gay barracks” where all homosexuals are housed together? Then it would be seen as discriminatory, either against those who are housed in “gay barracks” or maybe even against those who are howsed in separate men's and women's barracks, because the people in the “gay barracks” aren’t forced to sleep separated by gender as heterosexuals are. Let’s face it, rules are for everyone, and no one should be excluded from following rules just because they behave differently and don’t feel that the rules should apply to them. Either things must be kept as…

Permanent link to “Before "Don't ask, don't tell" can be repealed, sleeping arrangements for everyone in the military should be considered.”
Permanent link to “pretty blue sky this morning”
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Permanent link to “lovely sky with pretty puffy clouds”
Permanent link to “I played around with the RSGames client today. It's still a bit buggy, but…”

August 2010

Monopoly and now Uno

i've been hearing a lot about a Monopoly game that many of my Twitter friends are playing. This game is playable by blind and vision impaired people. Thanks to a number of retweets of information about the latest release of the client, I have found the web site and I have also learned that it runs on Linux as well as Mac and Windows. Upon visiting the site, I found that a game of Uno has been released along with the new version of the client. The client and both games can be downloaded free of charge at the RSGames web site. To all my Twitter friends who play these games, I’ll be joining you very soon.

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Permanent link to “Ready for communion this morning. Taken, blessed, broken and given. All…”
Here's a better and…

This coffee tree grows in the training room at Counter Culture Coffee's headquarters at 4911 South Alston Avenue in Durham, North Carolina. The training room is also the part of the building where the coffee cuppings are held each Friday at 10:00 AM. Since I took the first picture of this coffee tree that I posted last week, I have learned that it is possible to grow them as houseplants. I plan to grow one or more coffee trees at home in the near future. I know I probably won't get much coffee from them, but they do look nice, being coffee trees and all.

Permanent link to “Here's a better and larger picture of Counter Culture's indoor coffee tree. Makes a great houseplant.”
Permanent link to “On the way to another cupping at Counter Culture. Today we'll taste coffee…”
Permanent link to “AIM seems to be the only instant messenger with a comprehensive text…”
Permanent link to “Well, it looks like Posterous had a bit of a hiccup. It posted something…”
Permanent link to “Just updated the theme on my Posterous blog. Really diggin' M82 by…”
Permanent link to “Google lets us call phones from gmail. In other news, we still can't call…”
Permanent link to “CoffeeGeek: Kopi Luwak”
Permanent link to “Smile! You're eating chicken!”
Permanent link to “indoor coffee tree. I want one!”
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Permanent link to “How much caffeine will do you in? Pick your poison and find out. You'll be surprised! http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine”
Permanent link to “What, if anything, does the Java patent nonsense from Oracle mean for open source Java implementations, Openoffice.Org, etc.?”
Permanent link to “after all they have done for the internet, it'd be a real shame to have to…”
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Permanent link to “I just made iced coffee with my Aeropress. All I can say is wow! I'm…”
Permanent link to “Just pulled a double shot of Espresso Apollo with my new aeropress. Pulled…”
Permanent link to “Poop! Looks like Mangler doesn't work. Found out that HKCRadio has a…”
Permanent link to “1 Question Atheism Can't Answer - Youtube video”
Permanent link to “Does anyone know where I can buy an accompaniment track for "Break…”
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Please post this…

How Low Can You Go? It all started about three years ago, when Freedom Scientific started throwing lawsuits around against its competitors who make screen reader and magnification products. This caused somewhat of a stir at the time, but it mainly died away, because well, companies do this stuff all the time, and I guess it's all a part of the game. I mean we see similar actions by Microsoft, Apple and other big companies who want to "protect their property," as they love to say, and for the most part, we just let it go after ranting and complaining for a short time and then continuing to buy their products, supporting their actions with our wallets. It seems somewhat unfair and even a little like bad business to us, but we generally don’t care, and we gave Freedom Scientific a pass on this issue as well in the beginning. But now, they have stooped to an extraordinary new low. First, on 8 June, 2010, Freedom Scientific sued the United States Government, namely the Department…

Permanent link to “Please post this wherever possible: Freedom scientific has declared war on blind children! It's time to fight back!”
I just had a very…

I was able to state the case for my position clearly and concisely, giving appropriate scripture references to support my argument. My opponent, however, was completely unable to state his position with any meaningful substance. I even challenged him to point out to me any scripture in any version of the Bible that would support his position, but he could only give me atheistic buzzwords like narrow-minded and interpretation, and effectively forfeited the debate to me by saying that he didn't have the energy to debate with me, and that I should unfollow him. Naturally, I did. Now for the real kicker. This guy says he graduated from Candler School of Theology! Is it true that I can, by the power of the Holy Spirit and His Holy Scriptures, defeat a Candler graduate? YES! AMEN! GLORY TO GOD! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY WHO LIVES FOREVER AND EVER AMEN!

Permanent link to “I just had a very unusual one-sided Bible discussion with someone on Twitter.”
Permanent link to “Looks like T-Mobile is being a funnybug with my email again. Strange that…”
Permanent link to “We've actually got ourselves just a bit of a thunderstorm. Cool. We need…”
NEW SONGS FOR OLD…

Via @athumper on Twitter. These were all separate tweets, but I liked them so much I decided to compile them into a single post here. Enjoy them as much as I did. LOL! Herman's Hermits: "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker" The Bee Gees: "How Can You Mend a Broken Hip?" Bobby Darin: "Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash" Ringo Starr: "I Get By With a Little Help from Depends" Roberta Flack: "The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face" Johnny Nash: "I Can't See Clearly Now" Paul Simon: "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver" Commodores: "Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom" Marvin Gaye: "I Heard it Through the GrapeNuts" Procol Harem: "A Whiter Shade of Hair" Leo Sayer: "You Make Me Feel Like Napping" The Temptations: "Papa's Got a Kidney Stone" Abba: "Denture Queen" Tony Orlando: "Knock Three Times on the Ceiling if You Hear Me Fall" Helen Reddy:…

Permanent link to “NEW SONGS FOR OLD PEOPLE Some artists are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate the '60s aging baby boomers.”

July 2010

Permanent link to “A heart for God, on fire!”
Permanent link to “Praise God who lives in me!”
Permanent link to “Sorry to get everybody's hopes up. There won't be any Counter Culture…”
Permanent link to “Look for my video from today's Counter Culture Coffee cupping and tour…”
Permanent link to “Parted is a lifesaver! I may never know why my camera borked my SD card,…”
Permanent link to “So this is the second time I've tried to shoot video of a coffee cupping…”
Permanent link to “It's Friday again, and that means another coffee cupping at…”
Permanent link to “I didn't sleep well last night, and now I'm awake very early. Well, at…”
Permanent link to “They say remotes and cell phones have more bacteria than toilet handles.…”
Permanent link to “Catch Donald and Ayiesha Woods broadcasting live now at…”
Permanent link to “Downloading the 64-bit version of GhostBSD 1.5 beta. It's a live CD, but…”
Permanent link to “I turned off my phone overnight to save battery power. It's still gonna…”
Permanent link to “Information Installation of packages failed - Press enter to close! I hate…”
Permanent link to “so far, testing from the live CD, Vinux is good. I just wish it didn't…”
Permanent link to “I think i'm about to give Vinux a try, but the only 64-bit version seems…”
Permanent link to “hmmm. I just found something called GhostBSD. Seems to be very early in…”
Permanent link to “Looking for recommendations for a GNOME-based x86-64 live CD or DVD BSD…”
Permanent link to “A special mention to Kyle @kyle4jesus for being the only player to tweet…”
Permanent link to “Charlotte 10 Raleigh 2 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2010 NC SC BEEPBALL…”
Permanent link to “Raleigh 8 Spartanburg 7 Raleigh will play Charlotte for the championship.…”
Permanent link to “Raleigh is now playing Spartanburg, and Charlotte will play the winner of…”
Permanent link to “A big shoutout to Jason's Deli on West O Ezelle Blvd, Spartanburg for…”
Permanent link to “Choice of ham or turkey sandwich, potato chips, a mid-size cookie, a…”
Permanent link to “round 2 score: Raleigh 8 Durham 5 Durham Sluggers eliminated in 2…”
Permanent link to “##First games: Charlotte 7 Durham 6 Highpoint 7 Raleigh 5 Highpoint plays…”
Permanent link to “First games: Durham plays Charlotte and Raleigh plays Highpoint.…”
Permanent link to “Goodbye 3-way calling, hello real conference calling. 4 calls bridged…”
Permanent link to “My prediction: the Durham Sluggers will take home the championship trophy!…”
Permanent link to “Officially on the way to Spartanburg. Totally stoked about the tournament!”
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Permanent link to “the NC/SC Beepball Tournament is on Posterous, Identica, Twitter and…”
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What's up with…

I've recently heard a lot about something called TeamTalk, which is some kind of voice conferencing software. The best analogy to describe it seems to be something similar to IRC, but you can talk into it. Maybe it’s better to describe it as something similar to CB radio for the internet. Well, either way, several people I follow on Twitter use a TeamTalk server to chat. Well, I thought I'd take a look at the client software and see whether I can use it, seeing as I'm a diehard Linux guy and I don't like anything that would force me into using Windows. I first heard of this software about 3 or 4 years ago, and there was no Linux client at that time, but I thought I'd go ahead and take a look again to see what if any developments had been made. This is the story of my trials and tribulations while trying to find usable Linux voice chat software that is accessible to blind and vision impaired users. The TeamTalk Problem I wasn't exactly sure where to find TeamTalk, since I have only…

Permanent link to “What's up with voice chat software and QT?”
Permanent link to “Ventrilo, on the other hand, does have a GTK-based Linux client called…”
Permanent link to “Heard about TeamTalk. Thought I'd try it. Site says no Linux client, but…”
Permanent link to “I love this song. I hope to be able to record it in a few weeks.”
Permanent link to “Reporting bugs and registering blueprints in Linux Mint is as easy as in…”
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Permanent link to “"I Need You More" - what a beautiful song”
Permanent link to “Another Friday, another coffee cupping at Counter Culture. If you haven't…”
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Permanent link to “first impression of Firefox 4.0: seems really good so far, but…”
Permanent link to “Way cool! Firefox 4.0 is titled "Mozilla Developer Preview"…”
Permanent link to “Firefox 4.0 just hit my Ubuntu. Wootcakes! Now for the testing.”
Permanent link to “No need to sign the JAWSLite petition. If you want a good free screen…”
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Permanent link to “Well, I just found Maverick's major breakage. Moving the mouse or clicking…”
Permanent link to “Looks like the screensaver on Maverick isn't as broken as I thought. No…”
Permanent link to “Now running Ubuntu Maverick alpha 2. Surprisingly, the only thing…”
Permanent link to “Wow! Another disturbing fact: the 2.31.1 announcement seems to be the only…”
Permanent link to “A little disturbed to find that http://identi.ca/gnomeorca hasn't been…”
Permanent link to “On the way to the ballpark to play beepball in near 100 degree heat.”
Permanent link to “Looks like I should have stayed home. I would have probably seen more…”
Permanent link to “Fireworks and vuvuzelas! Wouldn't that be interesting?”
Permanent link to “I have Qwitter running under Wine! Two problems: hotkeys don't work, and…”
Permanent link to “Still haven't gotten the chance to test Qwitter under wine with the Visual…”
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I'm gonna start…

I'm seeing a very disturbing fad among businesses these days. It seems that more and more of them want us to pay for something they’re not selling. Sometimes, it seems, these businesses want us to pay for a product as much as a month or more before they plan to start selling it. Of course I’m referring to preorders. Get real! The company has nothing to sell, but they want us to buy on the basis that they will make a product available in the future. I just saw this practice from Apple and from Clearwire, both within the last month, but many other companies engage in this type of marketing all the time. Well, for me, seeing is believing. If I purchase a product, I want it shipped to me within 1 to 2 weeks, or I want to walk into a store, pick it up off the shelf, pay for it and bring it home. I don’t have the time or the money to spend on something that isn’t for sale at the time I make my purchase. You can show me all the pictures you like, but I'm not buying. Here's a thought. How…

Permanent link to “I'm gonna start taking preorders for a product I haven't got. Nice way to make some money. Could it work?”
Permanent link to “Take me there, where I can see you, And living is worship. ~Ayiesha Woods”
Permanent link to “I get this strange error when trying to run Qwitter under Wine. I think Wine needs help. Text included.”