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A friend of mine recently read a statement on Wikipedia regarding Calvinism, and I quote, “One person is saved while another is condemned, not because of a foreseen willingness, faith, or any other virtue in the first person, but because God sovereignly chose to have mercy on him.” He brought the statement to my attention and asserted that this was one major reason in his objection to Calvinism as a system, because – according to his interpretation of scripture – this is directly opposed to “clear bible teaching”.

I asked him to provide me an example of “clear Bible teaching” that opposes this view, and he pointed me towards 2 Peter 3:9 which reads – “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

While it would be outside of the scope of this article to presume to defend the statement from Wikipedia, I do intend to demonstrate that 2 Peter 3:9 does not require the student to come to a conclusion that this particular scripture “clearly opposes” the Wikipedia statement.

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High Performance Web Sites
Written by Rob Hines   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008

I have come to appreciate O'REILLY books for their practicality - and this book in particular is a stunning example of pragmatism and practicality. You should read it if for no other reason than that!

The author (Steve Souders of Yahoo!) shares fourteen easy steps that any front-end web designer can take to optimize performance. He give a general nod to the fact that most people expect that the back-end is where all the optimization can and should take place, and goes on to demonstrate with stunning clarity that "In reality, for most web pages, less than 10-20% of the end user response time is spent getting the HTML Document from the web server to the browser."

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iPhone - The Missing Manual
Written by Rob Hines   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008

A fun book to have if you have an iPhone. No decent manual arrived with the appliance and I sort of felt like I did when I first spun up Myst, "What the heck am I supposed to do now?". You know me, I'm 100% bought into the whole Read The Freaking Manual thing - and not having one really threw me for a loop.

Other than covering all the things that a good manual should cover, and which most of the rest of you probably had fun figuring out for yourself, there isn't much more that this book covers. That being said, I'm glad I picked it up and read it, and I think other iPhoners will feel the same way.

ISBN-10 #: 0-596-51374-7 
ISBN-13 #: 978-0-596-51374-0
Recommended?: Yes
 
The Creative Priority - Putting Innovation to Work in Your Business
Written by Rob Hines   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008

Jerry Hirshberg was recruited and subsequently hired to found Nissan Design International, Inc. (NDI). This book "weaves together enlightening real-world anecdotes with the story of NDI's genesis to illustrate eleven interlocking strategies that came to define NDI's creative priority."

I found the book to be a refreshing breather from the more typical process, proces, process books that are currently found on the market. No if you know me, you must know that I am a process man at heart, so don't go thinking that I have experianced a fundamental shift in perspective because of this book.

However, it certainly brings to light a number of the weaknesses inherent in the the process only mindframe and provides some insight on how to go about encouraging creativity within a process.

I suggest that anyone looking for a break from the more popular process management theories take a look at this and see if it doesn't encourage you to temper your processes with just the right ammount of creative edge.

ISBN #: 0887309607 
Recommended?: Yes
 
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