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A number of feeds that I read have been speed testing and sharing the results, so I am jumping in the mix.

Home:
Last Result: Chicago, IL
Download Speed: 4899 kbps (612.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 342 kbps (42.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Since I want to make you sick I will post results from the office later today…

Via the web proxy:
Download Speed: 2065 kbps (258.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2712 kbps (339 KB/sec transfer rate)

Via admin account, proxy bypass:
Download Speed: 8378 kbps (1047.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 8989 kbps (1123.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Thought Quote for the day.

Marriage is not graduation. It is more like starting Kindergarten.

Tom Planck, Journey Church

I just love my TiVo box (if you get one make sure you use my email address as the referring customer). And now I can listen to podcasts on my TV via home networking.

In case you have a TiVo box or just want to add the Journey Podcast to your podcast list. The URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/cincyjourney

The Hamilton Journal-News, my local paper, has this feature in the opinion section called Community Voice. “Brave” citizens can call in to a voice mail box and leave anonymous messages that are then printed in the paper. Since I don’t even allow anonymous comments on this site I should probably just leave well enough alone but two comments got me going a few weeks ago and I emailed my own letter to the paper, which in turn leads to a call to verify that it was me and then gets printed with my name on it (three weeks later). And not only do I get my name in the paper they also write there own headline for my comments, how nice. Here are the two Community Voice messages and then my letter…

Community Voice/2-23

I AM SHOCKED to find out, by accident, that Talawanda Middle School is being used as a church.

Community Voice/2-27

REGARDING THE CALLER who said King and Ghandi were real men of God, what about (King’s) affair? Real men of God do not have affairs outside of marriage. … God’s commandment, “Thou shall not commit adultery.”

Men of God have had affairs/3-14

Regarding the caller who stated, real men of God do not have affairs outside of marriage, I am thankful that I serve a God of grace and love. A God who King David’s heart was after — despite his affair and resulting murder.
God is so much bigger than the small boxes us Christians try to shove him into. The only perfect person that changed the world was Christ and even He chose a group of 12 sinners to help him.

In regard to the caller who was “shocked” to learn that a church was meeting at a local high school, I have another shocker for you: A large number of the high schools in the area are used by churches on Sunday mornings. As a matter of fact, it would be illegal for a high school to deny a church group from meeting there. Don’t worry though, your taxes are not being used. These church groups pay a premium to use our community buildings and a lot of our schools are happy to have them.

Mike Utech
Hamilton