Author: Jeff Hampton

For Wilshire Baptist Church

During the run-up to the Academy Awards in early March, Turner Classic Movies hosted their annual festival of Oscar-winning films. A favorite that I watched again was “Patton,” which portrays the exploits of U.S. General George S. Patton during World War ll. It’s especially memorable for me because my father took my brother and me to see it when we were 12 and 11. He warned us that the language would be rough, and it was, but he explained that it was a story about a real man and real life, and real life gets rough. Continue reading “Of Parades and Glory”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

The headline on the flyer in the mailbox said, “3 Reasons why your computer may be running slowly,” and below it was listed the culprits: corrupted registry, too much junk, and bloatware, the latter described as “pre-installed applications you don’t use that may take up excessive disk space and memory.” Continue reading “Pre-installed Applications”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Saturday was the National Day for Unplugging, a day promoted as a time to put down your digital devices, push back from the computer and turn off the flat screen and go do something more physically real and tangible. Actually it was from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, which made it a sort of digital sabbath. Continue reading “Unplugged”