The greatest night on television…The Office Season Premier!!!!!!

It does not get ANY better than this! “Sure it does, 4 hour long episodes!” -Robin

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So the day has come that the public beta of YouVersion.com has launched. I must stop and thank the amazing team that I work with! The YouVersion Team is totally amazing, and continually blow me away. As I pull out of the micro, and look at the macro it is hard to realize that we wrote our first line of code just over 90 days ago…

Check out the Swerve Blog for more details…

A close friend emailed me a few minuites ago with an awsome note of encouragment…but this was hilarious:

“Do you feel kind of like a little kid on Christmas morning?!”

My response….

Kid on Christmas morning, no, not really. More like I just broke out of prison and I am running for my life. It’s pitch black and I can see freedom…it’s right there, the get away car is just a few hundred yards away. BUT, in the back of my mind I know that the prison guards have rifles with scopes and I just might be shot and killed!

I thought is was funny.

Anyway, check you the public beta here, and let me know what you think.

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Wednesday quick hits!

- Upgraded to WordPress 2.3 with a very cool tool. WordPress Automatic Update plugin

- YouVersion public release will fly out this week.

- Another big release this week. Stay tuned, and keep your eyes open.

- SMS + Flash + Catalyst Conference = Fun! R U going to Catalyst?

- Terry the exterminator (not me) killed a ton of Spiders…

- Looking at Expression Engine.

- Incoming Links in WordPress now use Google BlogSearch

- Thursday will be Magical! The Office returns…

- “Wow daddy, there are a lot of freakin cars!” -Reia Storch (????)

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Random thoughts as I sit in my office on Sunday.

- Why does it take iTunes receipts a few days to be emailed to me?

- I am changing my personal email to terry@terrystorch.com

- Lunch on Monday will be a “face the brutal facts”meeting. (a project is just having way to many challenges)

- Moved from not enjoying the Foo Fighters new album to REALLY liking it!

- Thank God the dude is coming on Monday to kill all these spiders at our house.

- Sisomo was a cool book to read.

- Trying to move to using Safari 3. Love it, but not sure I can leave Firefox/Camino.

- WordPress admin sucks in Safari 3!

- Fired up about the new LifeChurch.tv/Open coming in a week or so! Stay tuned.

- Praying the guy we interviewed last week joins the digerati team!

- Looking forward to Catalyst.

- Not looking forward to being out of town for a week!

- Wow, the Catalyst website…who thought that was a good idea?

- How many of these points am I going to type? I am getting board.

- Loved Craig’s message this weekend!

- Have to mow the yard when I get home.

- I have not mowed a yard in almost 3 years…kinda looking forward to it.

- I am done! Cya.

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The wind is blowing cold

Think we lost our way tonight

Think we lost our hope to sorrow

Feels like were all alone

Running further from what’s right

And there are no more heroes to follow

So what are we becoming?

Where did we go wrong?

I WANT TO RISE TODAY AND CHANGE THIS WORLD

OH WON’T YOU RISE TODAY AND CHANGE THIS WORLD?

Download Rise Today from iTunes.

Lyrics from Alter Bridge new single, Rise Today. Let me go on record and say I was a massive….huge….crazy fan of Creed! Yes, I know Creed. But I will also say that I had the My own Prison album in 1997 before many knew who they were.

So, on with my music rant…Mark Tremonti, lead guitarist of Alter Bridge and formerly of Creed is one of the most amazing guitarist. His tones, riffs and the left leg on the wedge… Check a few of these out. Sam, you will love the last 1:00min of the Guitar 101 video!

Tremonti guitar solo

Tremonti plays Jimmy Page

Alter Bridge One Day Remains (Live)

Guitar 101 from Mark

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