A Useless Polemic
LucÃa Caram sparks anger in Spain after appearing to contradict Catholic teaching on perpetual virginity of mother of Jesus Source: Nun receives death threats f...
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Review: Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David My rating: 5 of 5 stars I ...
Experimenting with the MATE desktop
Some bug bite me and, as a result, I did the unthinkable. 😉 In fact, you might know that I have been a GNU/Linux user since 2000 (fully migrated since 2002). No...
Article on Borges and the Protestant Bible (In Spanish)
Today an article I wrote about the influence of the Protestant Bible on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published (in Spanish) at the Paraguayan newspape...
Y Combinator’s Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer | Ars Technica
Steve Jobs famously saw one and was inspired to create the Lisa, then the Mac. Source: Y Combinator’s Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer | A...
New Theme Version
For some time ago I’ve been using the gorgeous Graphy theme. Themegraphy, the theme creators, now released version 2.0, and therefore I upgraded. If I can...
Senseless Killing
Today, the news reported that this early morning there was the worst shooting in U.S. history. Really; the NPR coverage I linked is sobering. At least 50 people...
Dare to be different!
I found this inflorescence at Mom’s garden and immediately struck me because of the odd flower there. Seemed to me like a living illustration of the truth...
Happy New Year!
I hope you all have a very blessed start of the year of our Lord 2016. Again, my hope is that you may be able to celebrate with joy and surrounded of the affect...
Treacherous SiteMeter
Yesterday, while I was adding the previous update, I noticed something funny. Like many other Web surfers, I have an ad blocker installed. Well, while updating ...
Happy Birthday Linus!
On this day in 1969 in Helsinki, Linus Torvalds was born! Please join us in wishing him a very happy birthday. pic.twitter.com/d0Wyc2zRZV — The Linux Foun...
This is the last post you will ever need to read on why they don’t sing in church anymore.
This is a great commentary on the sad state of congregational church worship. While I think it doesn’t cover all the causes, what this guy says is spot-on...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving Day. I think this is a custom I wouldn’t mind to import here in Paraguay. 😉 Have a great day with your loved ones,...
Useless Facts about Paraguay
I saw this in the Facebook wall of a classmate. While not 100% exact, it is true and, I trust, an interesting read: 7 Absolutely Useless Facts About Paraguay En...
Ed Hurst on Total Depravity
Some thoughtful words from my namesake Ed Hurst: The Fall is within us. It afflicts Creation because we don’t understand it and all our actions and though...
LaTeX, KDE 4-5 Transition and TeXstudio
When I’m at the computer, a great deal of my writing activity happens not precisely in a word processor (such as MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer), but on a...
Tim Challies on the influence of Christianity
There is a pervasive tendency to ignore our Christian heritage and how Christianity introduced a respect for life and liberty that was completely unknown before...
A nice winter day. New post coming!
Nice winter day here. I’m writing a new post, and I hope it to publish it soon.
Ed Hurst: Moving from Windows
Some fresh advice from Ed Hurst: Moving from Windows Some good tips there. I concur with his recommendation on Debian unless you want to be a little bit closer ...
Fast Company: How to Seize Your Most Productive Hours To Get Things Done
This article at Fast Company caught my attention. I’m usually a night owl, and the feelings of frustration that describes certainly ring a bell here. Reco...
Things are not what they once were…
… And that is especially true of my WordPress theme. I recognize that many people surf the Web from mobile devices, and thus I need to offer them somethin...
The Day I Was Laid Off
Off I went, an unemployed man, on Workers’ Day Eve. And I was thankful for it. April 30th, 2011 seemed to be just another day at the office, compounded wi...
Merry Christmas!
This year is coming to an end. It has been hectic as usual, unusually challenging, but very enriching. Recollections and thoughts are set for another post. Now,...
Perdona: a public interest campaign on forgiveness
As part of my work in the advertising trade, I was tasked with developing a public-interest campaign. In fact, “developing” is too high a word, sinc...
Merry Christmas
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 ESV) I w...
Four Decades
By the grace of God, I am turning 40 on this day. It’s not another birthday; it is a momentous one. Such an occasion is always an invitation to reflect ov...
Some updates
Hey, I’m still alive! Honest! 😉 My apologies for the lack of updates. Real Life (TM), especially in the form of law school, got forcefully in the way of r...
OfB.biz: When Jerks Abuse an Organization
You might remember that I called your attention to Tim’s insightful piece, “The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers“. In response to that, I wrote tw...