Micah Yoder's Home Page

I am 33, newly married, a Christian, and a computer geek! What more do you need to know? My passion is using technology to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, using the Internet, radio, and anything else God might give us for that purpose! I have been a misssionary in Ecuador, doing I.T. work for the world's first missionary radio organization. Here is my resume just for the record. (Not looking for a job, but you may be interested in my experience.)

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Some of these may be large, but have fun! Unless otherwise noted, all photos that do not include me were taken by me.

On September 20, 2003, a friend and I attempted to climb Oregon's South Sister. It is the state's third tallest mountain and the tallest that one can hike up without technical climbing. We made very high marks but didn't quite make it to the top. It was extremely steep and the trail consisted of sand and loose rock. Here is a picture of the mountain from over a mile away. We made it to that big snow patch below the top. This is the view from where we made it to. We got high enough to look down on Broken Top. I need to try this again when I'm in better shape and have better shoes.
Our furrball, who loves to be held (even in weird positions) and sit on your lap purring
The total solar eclipse of February 26, 1998 with planets (Mercury is above the sun and to the left, Jupiter is below the sun), and later during the the diamond ring effect. Taken from Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Me and an iguana - Los Llanos, Venezuela.
Me and a monkey - Amatitlan, Guatemala
My school group advertising our school by forming its initials on one of the Mayan temples in Tikal, Guatemala. I am in the middle of the bottom row of the "E".
Straddling the equator, just north of Quito, Ecuador
Riding on the roof of the famous Nariz del Diablo (Devil's Nose) train in Ecuador. #1, #2, #3
Vendor selling alpaca wool creations - Otavalo, Ecuador
Inside the Mission Aviation Fellowship hangar in Shell, Ecuador. It was from here that the famous Jim Elliott, Nate Saint, et al. mission to the Auca Indians took off from in the 1950s. (Yes, that is a snake around the guy's neck...)
I collect photos of myself at national park entrence signs. Rocky Mountain (Colorado), Cotopaxi (Ecuador) [more coming...]

Conquer Club - Play Risk online! Highly addictive!
Electoral Vote - Common sense politics coverage. Run by a well known computer scientist. He's a Democrat, but the main page is bias-free.
Linux Weekly News - Great relevant info about Linux and other issues related to free and open source software
User Friendly - a great online comic strip about a bunch of geeks who work at an Internet Service Provider
Firefox - world's best web browser. It is Free / Open Source (which means no single company can hijack it unlike another popular web browser), atandards compliant, and cross platform (you can run it on everything from Windows to Linux). If everyone used Firefox, the Internet would be a better place.
OpenOffice.org - a completely Free / Open Source office suite that can do just about everything MS Office can do, including working with Office files. Highly recommended.
Linux - info about the awesome Free operating system. I currently use Kubuntu, but previously I used Gentoo. Also highly recommended is Knoppix, which lets you easily try Linux without installing it or messing with your Windows setup. You just download the CD image, burn it onto a CD, and boot from the CD. In a minute or two you'll have a super slick Linux desktop to play with all you want, and it won't touch your hard drive (unless you tell it to).
Petra Rocks My World - unofficial site for Petra, the greatest band ever. Their music is topnotch (at least what they did in the 80s), and their commitment to ministry through good times and hard times is inspiring.
Layhands.com - lots of articles about various Christian topics, including an extensive set of articles on how divine healing worked in the New Testament, and how we can apply that to today. I disagree with some of his articles but others are great!
Christian & Missionary Alliance - I feel that Christians should be striving to unite, and so I usually don't pay much attention to denominations. However, the church I attended in Oregon, and sent me to Ecuador, is a part of the C&MA and they are doing some great stuff around the world, so if I have to pick a denomination, this is it.
CrossDaily Forums - Online Christian community, good place to talk about almost anything!
Some of my favorite missions organizations: Youth with a Mission, HCJB World Radio, Mission Aviation Fellowship, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Gospel for Asia
Slashdot - I don't know why I link to this. If you have any reason to go there, you already know about it! But it has some interesting tech news and an interesting conversation or two.