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One Last Thing: The PBS Steve Jobs videos

I know that I’m venturing dangerously close to Steve Jobs Biography overload, with my last number of blog posts being related to the passing of Steve Jobs and the subsequent publication of his authorized biography… but as I was going through my sources I found the following two PBS documentaries. The first covered familiar territory …

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Know Your Tech History – Steve Jobs Biography

  Been working my way through the Steve Jobs biography the past week and I’ve been a bit surprised at what some have found to be “new” revelations from the book. Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte, was surprised at how much crying seems to have taken place around and including Steve Jobs. And while crying hasn’t …

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Mentoring Nightmare: The Missing Hippie Preacher

I used to think that part of my disfunction as a Christian leader was because I never really had a constructive mentoring relationship with my pastor(s). When working on my Master’s degree at Pepperdine I wrote an essay positing that I never had that kind of relationship with my dad and he’d never had a …

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Steve Jobs… Gone Too Soon

Driving home after working out Wednesday evening, I got a cryptic “OMG” text from a friend and thought that she must have texted me by mistake. I wasn’t at all ready for her reply. It took me a while to find something to text back to her. Almost 18-hours later I’m still more than a …

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TWiTs Get A Brick House

I’ve been a fan of Leo Laporte and his various projects beginning with finding the old ZD-TV and a kindred geek-soul while channel surfing. He used to joke that this was everyone’s worse nightmare: a geek with his own TV show. Apparently it’s the kind of nightmare that many of us would consider our dearest …

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The Long Strange Journey of Steve Jobs

I spent an hour of my weekend watching the Bloomberg TV documentary on Steve Jobs, part of their “Game Changers” series. For those of us early PC users, who lived through the micro-computer era, the episode was a pretty well balanced portrayal of the times and the long strange journey of Mr. Jobs. Not too …