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I've had my iPad less than a week now, and much less than that when you consider the time my daughters have played with it when I would like to be using it myself. If nothing else this thing is a marvelous diversion for the kids. I've actually gotten pretty good with the on screen keyboard. In landscape view the keys are very large and after some practice I'm able to type well in that aspect. In portrait I am able to hold the iPad while using my two thumbs to key in search terms and urls pretty quickly. It's a bit hard to keep your fingers in the proper location since you do not have a tactile sense to know if you have strayed.

Aviary apps are awesome. Below is the beginning tutrorial for Peacock effects editor.

I spent much of my week last week getting ready to launch The University of Akron Superbowl Ad on our website. I like the ad and I thought it was appropriate advertising for a university of our size. Of course it ran in our local area, so the price was right.

For the most part, I didn't like the advertising on the superbowl. I wasn't impressed this year. I did like a few of them. The Google Superbowl Ad was nice. It wasn't real splashy, but showed you the power of their search engine. Since they are in competition with Bing and Bing does a lot of advertising, I thought it was a good decision on their part.

Some of the most interesting reads as a Christian are the writings of the Early Church fathers. Those who wrote shortly after the New Testament writers. I've found the myth of the Phoenix to be an incredible story that St. Clement related to the early church in his letter to the Corinthians. In the nearly identical time frame, turn of the first century, is St. Ignatius of Antioch. St. Ignatius left us with a number of letters. St. Ignatius is believed to have been one of the early persecuted Christians who was fed to the lions in the Roman Amphitheater. I've found Clement of Alexander to be a thoughtful Christian writer, too. One who wrote during the time period when Alexandria became the cultural center of the world with it's exquisite library.