Get Ready…Get Set…

The new blog is ALMOST ready. After many weeks in development and coding (blah!) we’re almost ready to launch the new “look.”

Then..I turn on my phone this morning and see a msg from my tech-guru titled “Huge Blog Hang-Up…” You can imagine my nervous-ness as I opened the email.

As I twittered earlier, WordPress does not let you upload custom template to sites that they host…so.

After moving from HERE to HERE…I know have to move to HERE.

If you got to my blog all along by using www.mattmacdonald.ca then you would have NEVER had a problem, but after the advice or a few friends like THIS GUY and THIS GUY it’s time to host the blog myself..

So on Monday morning we are going live to www.mattmacdonald.ca and leaving WP Hosting behind. Please change your links/pages/subscriptions to the new domain…

P.S Apparently “give-aways” are the coolest new thing…SO…with the launch of the new look, I’m going to be giving away from swag! Stay tuned!

Mamma’s Got a Blog

My wife Hailey just a got a blog. For a softer, more intelligent version of the stories I tell…you can read what she says!

I love Hailey more each day and am so thankful for the example that she is in my life. Glory to God.

I’m PRETTY SURE that God doesn’t want that…

||| NOTE: Outlandish Sarcasm ahead…proceed with caution |||

I saw this on a friends facebook. I guess he found it in a bookstore or something. Makes you wonder…is it really that easy to get something published? I’m contemplating ripping some bark off a tree in my backyard and seeing if someone will publish it for me…I’ll write my name on it and maybe “God wants us all to be like tree bark.” Think of the potential!

Click HERE and HERE or HERE for other great ideas…

(okay, the 3rd one is a joke)

Mac Geeks Unite

Thus far, I have never seen 1 online event that is as widely followed as today’s big Apple Meeting.  Here’s a picture I snapped on my twitter to demonstrate how Apple owned the day…
Below is a snapshot of what the “pre-chat” on Apple Insider dot com looked like.

Pretty brutal in terms of what people get excited for.  Check out the bottom one…the guy “couldn’t sleep” the night before. Joking or not, it’s pretty sad when people idolize technology like this.  But here’s the thing…I’m just as bad!  Am I stoked about the new “copy/paste” feature on the new operating system (OS)…YES!  I was convicted today via Apple.  I had a sweet chat with my buddy @CaptainCool about tech stuff, ministry and everything in between. It is refreshing to talk about tech stuff in the context of our faith (i.e how can I use technology as a resource to spread the gospel), BUT the bridge between resource and idol is not large.
I get excited about technology sometimes…

I need to get JUST as excited about stuff that matters! At the end of my life…no iphone app, new car or cool tie will be there, just me and my Saviour…I need something more to say than…”my itunes library was SUPER up-to-date and I had great hair…”

16 Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of many wicked.
17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will remain forever;
19they are not put to shame in evil times;
in the days of famine they have abundance. Psalm 37:16-19

Now THAT is startling!

I’ve got my head down for one more day (they’ve become 15+ hour-days recently) left before freedom from tax season…

I haven’t posted anything of substance in a while, and come May, I will return (big baby news that I will write more about soon), but until then…read THIS ARTICLE.  It talks about how much T.V you watch and how it is costing you thousands of dollars a year!  Very convicting!

Domain is Up!

After some help from my friends Erin and Tyler (who both know a lot more than me when it comes to web stuff),

www.mattmacdonald.ca

is back up and running. It now points to this blog. Thanks to both Erin and Tyler for their help!

25 Reasons Facebook Sucks

I saw this on this guy’s blog…and I laughed. Here it is…

I got rid of my facebook account a few months back…many of my reasons are stated here…

Looking for a BLOG?

I stumbled onto this site

Basically what it is a 10-second blog preview. If you click the link, it will take you to a random blog…ten seconds later it will jump you to another blog…and so on and so forth.

I kind of like stuff like this. It somehow makes surfing the web a little lazier (if that was even possible), and let’s you peek into blogs you probably would never see. Chances are you will need to scan 100 before getting a good one, but it’s something for a rainy day.

Enjoy.

Listen Up

What are you listening to? My “regular listening” tracks change regularly…here’s what I have loaded into my most recent playlist…as you can see it’s somewhat diverse in artists. What’s on your playlist right now?

It’s Here

I’ve had it for 24-hours.

The email part is going to take some time to get used to (much different the blackberry)

The phone part is pretty much amazing…