Song: You Are Beautiful, My Love

A Music article with View Comments posted 26 December 2009.
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I wrote this song in honor of my wife, Jennifer, on the occasion of our fifth wedding anniversary. It comes from my experience of realizing just how blessed I am to be married to such a good and faithful woman. It’s very easy to take the people we love for granted. Every once in a while, though, those scales fall from my eyes and I’m dumbstruck by the blessing I have in her.

I included You Are Beautiful, My Love in this video, but I also want to make it available for download. It is licensed CC-BY-SA (see below) so you can feel free to share it with others. I hope you enjoy hearing it as much as I enjoyed making it.

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Advent Waiting

A Church article with View Comments posted 1 December 2009.
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This article ran in the December 2009 issue of The Messenger, the newsletter of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sterling, IL.

As you read this, we have entered the season of Advent and the time in the church year where we wait with expectation for the birth of Christ at Christmas. I don’t know about you, but waiting doesn’t come naturally to me. I want things done, done right, and done right now. The idea of waiting stirs up for me notions of impatient foot tapping and watch glancing. Most of us don’t wait because we want to wait, but instead because we have to wait. We don’t choose waiting, waiting is chosen for us.
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MusicBrainz on my brain

A Tech article with View Comments posted 6 October 2008.
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I have discovered a lovely service, MusicBrainz, which will sort through my rather poorly categorized collection of music and tag it with the proper artist, title, album, genre, etc. It does this by “listening” to the song, generating a fingerprint, and then looking that fingerprint up on a website which seemingly aims to be the Wikipedia of Music.

MusicBrainz’ tagging tool is called Picard, and it is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. I got my copy from my friendly neighborhood Ubuntu repository. If you register on the MusicBrainz site, the tags you edit and save for your music will be uploaded and shared with other MusicBrainz users. Enjoy!