Serving God or Serving Mammon? A Book, Revisited at Midlife
A 2007 book review I never finished, reread at a different stage of life — on money, family, retirement planning, and the discipline of staying aligned rather than becoming a saint.
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23 entries
First Post- 20 years later
Why I started this blog, and what I hoped to write about.
From WordPress to Astro, on My Own NAS
Why I moved twenty years of blog posts off WordPress onto a static Astro site served from my own NAS, and what AI did and could not do along the way.
Goodbye Imgur — Images on My Own NAS with MinIO
Images were swelling my Obsidian vault. How they moved from Imgur to a self-hosted MinIO server on a Synology NAS, including the two failed attempts before it.
Mac or Windows?
I became a Mac user by accident in 2005 and mostly stayed. After an iPad, a Chromebook, a Surface and some Linux-only tools, the question is no longer which is better. It is what the work needs.
Why Obsidian Won: Fifteen Years of Note Apps
I tried Evernote, OneNote, Notion, Bear, Joplin and Logseq over fifteen years. Why Obsidian finally stuck — and why the tool mattered less than the habit it forced me to change.
Books I Read in 2025
A list of the books I read in 2025, with a line or two on each.
Half a Year
A prayer note on returning to a long-missed place.
I Believe.......
After reading God Is Red by Liao Yiwu: the faith of Chinese believers, and the comfortable dimness of ours.
Reading and...
On reading Sum by David Eagleman: a captivating book, and a Christian reader's caution.
Prayer
Half a year of trying to learn to pray quietly, and still stuck on the first ten days.
Serving
First time serving in the main Sunday service: on the habits and inertia of serving, and the pride that creeps in.
The Tongue
A colleagues' wedding, a sermon on the tongue, and an uncomfortable look at my own gossip.
Workplace Gossip 2
Gossip is a bit like a drug. A few more thoughts, and a prayer.
Workplace Gossip
Colleagues talk shop everywhere, and work turns into people. A Christian's place in workplace gossip.
Sales and Bargaining
Buying a flat and wedding packages: on feeling foolish, and on haggling that benefits no one.
Cambodia Trip - after a Short-term Mission
Looking back on a mission trip to Cambodia: God's provision, a heart reopened, and grief that came home with me.
Happy Chance
An unexpected chance to share the gospel with my aunt and cousins over dinner.
Switching from blogger to livejournal
a record of change from blogger
struggling-with-exam
worried about an exam
A Year Ago Today
The last day of my first working year, and the many first times it held.
An Old Story
A story I had heard many times, and the two things it finally taught me.
First Post
Why I started this blog, and what I hoped to write about.
