Articles by Timothy R. Butler

Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.

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Oct 11, 2023

Don’t Miss Prime (and Anti-Prime) Tech Deals Today

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 1:12 PM

With the artificial “holiday” of the “Prime Deal Days” going on right now, there are plenty of mediocre deals, but a few you may want to nab before it ends tonight.

More deals will be added throughout the day.

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Oct 04, 2023

Call Me Streaky

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 8:41 PM

Last night I was exhausted, but I was manipulating the database code behind one of our sister sites. Not because disaster had struck for others using the site, but to save a game streak I’d been nudging along. I hate losing streaks.

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Sep 27, 2023

Look What Politics Makes Christians Do

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 8:58 PM

Opening up X this week, I noted that the present beverage brewing tempests were the Internet meltdown over Taylor Swift’s new love interest and the honoring of an alleged Nazi in the Canadian parliament during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit. The invisible thread binding them was the Culture Warriors claiming to fight for Jesus who made these the cause célèbre.

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Sep 20, 2023

I Hate Captchas

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 10:49 PM

Is it me or have they gotten more annoying? Those little puzzles to separate out the robots from humans that appear on web sites constantly?

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Sep 13, 2023

Breaking from the Dismal to Hope for 200

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 6:54 PM

Life in 2023 feels like it is a constant flood of anger and problems, doesn’t it? What a refreshing break last night to simply celebrate Cardinals great Adam Wainwright winning his 199th game.

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Sep 06, 2023

Amplifying the Craft, Not Short-circuiting It

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 9:47 PM

In a recent column for Christianity Today, Yi-Li Lin argued for a significant increase in usage of AI-related tools in church work. I’m sympathetic, but he goes too far. The ways he does are revealing to the challenges every profession is facing, or will face, with this technology.

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Aug 30, 2023

This is the Kind of Cookie I Want

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:44 PM

I’ve embarked on an important research project to further humanity’s understanding of the world. A project to delve deep into one of life’s most important questions. One that furthers the far reaches of science. One that helps to better understand… the chocolate chip cookie.

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Aug 23, 2023

We're Regulating the Wrong Thing

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 8:48 PM

Standardization is a good thing. Forced standarization can appear beneficial, too. But the two are not the equivalent. Consider the increasingly ubiquitous USB Type-C cable.

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Aug 16, 2023

Strange Smoke

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 11:23 PM

I’ve always been a fan of smoking, as long as that refers to smoking delicious meats. Barbecuing and related culinary feats let us taste summer. This year, though, is a year of strange smoke.

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Aug 09, 2023

T-Mobile's Hard Work to Lose a Customer

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 12:17 PM

T-Mobile managed to do what a massive rebrand and years of advertising couldn’t do. They’ve managed to make the thought of dealing with my cable company, Spectrum, seem appealing.

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