Category: blogs
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...
Wikileaks and the “Dissent Tax”
First things first: Merry Christmas! A Christmas post is imminent. Stay tuned 😉 And second: It’s been a looong time! I know, I know… but work and la...
The Least Common of the Senses in Computing
If you forgive me the obviousness, you may have already heard that somewhere else that “common sense is the least common of all senses”. As far as p...
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...
Software: KDE and assorted stuff
Time goes on, and with it, new software releases come and go. So, I think it is appropriate to comment on some software I use. Let’s see: My GNU/Linux dis...
The Web Ads Question
Tim, in a recent blog post, has tackled a subject that touches a sensitive area of Web surfing: ads, and the ethical validity of blocking them. The issue is tha...
2010: Perspectives for the New Year
As a flip-side piece to my 2009 evaluation post, I would like to set some things that I should take into account regarding the year 2010: In the personal side, ...
OfB: The Hidden Danger of Peacemakers
Tim recently wrote a great piece at Open for Business. He tells about the hidden danger posed by people trying to transform church discipline into just another ...
2009: The Year in Retrospect
Oh my. 2009 was such a year! It was a year full of news good and not so good, and it came and went in style, but all was so hectic! 😉 But I digress. The year 20...
Merry Christmas!
for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people...
Bilbo Blogger!
I just discovered a great blogging app: Bilbo Blogger, a blogging app for KDE4. I set it up in its simple config dialog, and presto! it retrieved all my last po...
Akismet enabled
I finally caved in and enabled the Akismet web service to stop comment spam. I was getting between 250-300+ comments per day, all of them spam. So far, it seems...
Argh! That wretched moderation!
I need a hammer. A Really Big Big Big Bad Hammer(TM), and also Some Things to Crush In a Fit of Anger. While moderating my ever-increasing spam comments, some p...
My, is March already over?
I cannot believe how fast March went down the drain. One day, and we were just on the beginnings; and the other, and it’s the 31st!. Several things happen...
Great, timely posts
I still don’t know the outcome of my church’s administrative session that was planned for today. I went to the 8:00am service and promptly left afte...
Another theme
I continue experimenting with themes. This is Fluid Blue 1.5, a great theme by Srini. The big merit of this theme, in my opinion, is its resemblance to the old ...
WordPress 2.3… yay!
I managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.3. This is a pretty serious upgrade, and for the first time it comes with native tag support! Because of this I also decided...
Back From a Forced Hiatus
It’s been a long time since my last post. Of course this is an uninentended condition; I really meant to post more often. However, besides the usual delug...
A Challenging Week, Upgrades…
This has been a challenging week. Things are not going as well as I would have wished in the financial front; but we are holding on. But the most difficult prob...
Writing projects
Right now I am immersed in two small writing projects for OfB.biz: A review of the Unicomp Model M keyboard: This is basically an expansion of this post, with m...
“Some things the Linux Community still doesn’t get”… really?
Ramkumar Shankar writes on his blog: “The day when Linux will take over the desktop (or at least have a significant footprint in the market) is still not ...
A Pastor in Aparecida
Rev. Harold Segura works with World Vision Latin America and he also serves as the Director of Theological Education for the Union of Baptists in Latin America....
Luke: What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?
I found this excellent article at All Unkept, Luke Plant’s blog : What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?. It is a great application of slippery-slope...
Happy Mothers’ Day!
As usual, tomorrow is Mothers’ Day in the Paraguayan holiday calendar. In our culture, this is a really important celebration. I suspect we will end up sp...
Some Good News for a Change
Today I would like to tell some good news. On March 29 and 30 I had to sit on two rather tiring qualifying exams to achieve the certification of Registered Publ...
Some Updates
This month has been hectic! I find myself overwhelmed with work, but even then there are some things to share with you. Letters, yay! I got two letters that mad...
Stop the Presses: WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgrade Immediately to 2.1.2!
Oh, boy. They messed up big time. The good folks at WordPress discovered that some 2.1.1 releases contained a trojan horse added by a cracker. Consequently, the...