Back from Rio
This Friday we arrived safely and sound to Asunción after a small trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio is a beautiful city indeed.
Category: General
Off to Rio
I’m off to Rio de Janeiro with my wife for a much needed vacation. I plan to return, God willing, after a week. Stay tuned!
New year, projects new and old
We had a nice New Year celebration with my in-laws and then a much needed day of rest.
One case where Twitter is awful
This article in The Atlantic definitely struck a chord here. This morning I was checking Twitter and I found in my timeline a gross, gruesome image. I won’...
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! I hope you can have a great Christmas Eve with your loved ones, a time full of joy and praise for the wonderful gift of a God who dwelt among u...
Long time no see
Hi there! This year my blogging fell behind. I know it’s disappointing but my life grew increasingly busy. For the first time, I began teaching theology, ...
Protected: Dogma, dogmática y teología (cont.)
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Switching to Firefox Quantum
The folks at Mozilla recently released Firefox 57, which is in fact a totally new engine and interface, known as Firefox Quantum. When Slackware-current pushed ...
A Useless Polemic
Lucía Caram sparks anger in Spain after appearing to contradict Catholic teaching on perpetual virginity of mother of Jesus Source: Nun receives death threats f...
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 ...