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I’d like to pass this along from Rob Abraham of the YWAM International Communications Network.

The new YWAM Promotional DVD is now available! We are very excited to release this DVD and hope that it will spread YWAM’s passion to know God and to make Him known. The videos on this DVD are excellent tools for recruiting, promoting and fundraising.

The four videos are:
• We are YWAM (3 min.) is a fast-paced glimpse of YWAM worldwide aimed at getting youth excited and involved.
View it on YouTube

• Get Involved (4 min.) is an invitation to churches to learn more about YWAM and how they and their youth can be part of this international, interdenominational missions movement.
View it on YouTube

• Get Going (5 min.) is all about YWAM’s life-changing Discipleship Training School.
View it on YouTube

• Think YWAM (10 min.) is a sit-down talk with two YWAMers sharing the heart of YWAM’s wide-spread ministry.
View it on YouTube :
Part 1
Part 2

We invite you to post comments and rate these videos on YouTube. We also hope to make them available for download as podcasts through ywam.org soon. Please help spread the word.
To order DVDs for US$5 each plus shipping, please email pr [at] ywam [dot] org
If you are interested in having these videos in your language, email: procla[at]intlcom.org

Don’t forget to order the new YWAM international brochures too! Print ready data for 6 different brochure designs is available – customized in local languages, with your local YWAM ministry contact info on it for localized printing. More info on all these new materials is available at : http://ywam.org/contents/sta_res_promo.htm
or email: pr[at]ywam.org

David Berlind over at ZDNet has posted an article on trackpads vs pointing sticks of the kind that you find on thinkpads.

One MacBook with a Thinkpad keyboard please (or OS X running on Windows, when hell freezes over) by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — Just because almost everybody is doing it, does that mean it’s a good idea? Or does that mean that we’ve somehow been hoodwinked into thinking this makes sense. I’m talking about touchpads. Somehow, users have been convinced that these kissin-cousins to the digitizing tablets that graphics artists use (where the technology benefits productivity) make [...]

Is this guy on crack or something? Sure, I agree with him about trackpads. Who really uses the trackpad on their mac laptops anyway? I’m a macfreak but I avoid using the trackpad on my powerbook as much as possible. I’m also a productivity freak so I use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible. But pointing sticks? Please, that’s so 90′s.

My only brief experience with a pointing stick was when I had to help a friend with his Toshiba back in the 90′s. My only hope was that I could get the job done as soon as possible so I wouldn’t have to use that stupid, little pointing stick anymore.

Sure, it was fast. Too fast. Speed went up and accuracy plummeted. The fact that it may be harder for manufacturers to make or maintain is not the real reason why it has never caught on. People don’t like them.

Want speed and accuracy? Use a mouse. Want productivity? Keep your fingers on the keyboard as much as possible and use shortcuts. That is unless you get paid by the hour, of course. In that case, feel free to use whatever outdated, outmoded technology you wish to use.

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