New eBooks Section

Since my wife obtained a Sony eReader, I have been converting books into the ePub format for her. I figured I would make many of these converted books available in a new eBook section here. The first two books: Healing Our World, and The Anti-Federalist Papers are already available for download. Enjoy. :)

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Five Myths of Marriage

My wife and I celebrated our one year anniversary a few days ago. One year ago, before we were married, there were many things that people told me would change or be different after marriage. The most popular are below:

1) Be sad! No more alone time! No more time for the things you want! My wife and I enjoy many of the same things. We spend time plotting and scheming together. We spend time going to events together. As a matter of fact, I can’t stand to be without her. Even at work, I measure time in “minutes till I get to go home,” and scheduled a longer lunch break just to spend more time with her. Besides, if I wanted alone time, I would not have gotten married.

2) No more hanging out with friends! Before marriage, my wife introduced me to her friends, and I thought they were awesome, and I became friends with them. I introduced my wife to my friends, and she thought they were so awesome that she became friends with them. As a matter of fact, she makes me spend time with them also! I am a sociophob, but my wife is fixing that: she helps me get out more often.

3) She is the boss Nope. We just do stuff. Up until this point, if something needs to be done, we discuss it and figure out what to do together. Sometimes her ideas are awesomer. Sometimes mine are.

4) Life will be boring! Not a chance! Our marriage started with a high-octane police chase as I rescued my wife from Massachusetts, and took her to New Hampshire. Since then, every day has been us single handedly saving the world from evil politicians at the very last minute. On a serious note, we could write a book of all the things that we have experienced since being married a year ago, from being followed by police, to being harassed and followed by bitter old ladies on main street.

5) There will be arguments! You will fight all the time None yet! Closest thing to a shouting match we’ve had were plans to angrily shout compliments at each other on main street just to see what people would say.

None of these premarital warnings have come to pass so far. I have married a beautiful lady who is very loving. Next year, about the same time, I’ll get to write on myths about being a parent.

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Porc411 iPhone App

Yet another way to check the Porc411 without cluttering your inbox. This app lets you check the latest Porc411′s when you can, without having to manually delete them later.
It also allows you to call back the original caller fairly easily. I’ve already tested it to work on iOS 4; however, because of appstore restrictions, it is not in the appstore, and not yet in Cydia. Working on it though. :)

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Porc411 Dashboard Widget for MacOS

There can never be too many ways to check the Porc411. If you do not want another notification in your inbox to let you know of a situation, you can now have a dashboard widget to tell you when there is a new message that needs listening. You can even listen from the widget. Nothing to follow, just messages when you want to see them. Widget requires MacOS 10.4 at least.

Download Porcupine411
Official Porcupine 411 Website

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OpenOpera Makes Opera Default Browser on iPhone

The moment Opera Mini for the iPhone was out, I downloaded it and have been using it as my primary browser since. Unfortunately, on the iPhone, you cannot switch your default browser to Opera. That is, until someone wrote an SBSettings plugin to change that. After installing OpenOpera from Rock App or Cydia, and enabling it, tapping links on your iPhone will open Opera Mini. Tapping on the address bar will paste the link.

One more thing is needed to use Opera as the Safari replacement on your iPhone: backgrounding. Both iPhone OS 4 and Backgrounder will fix that problem for you.

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