Ed Hurst: The School of Holy Cynicism
Sometimes the message you want to convey is much better said by someone else in such a way that adding something further looks like an offense. Such is the case...
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Upcoming articles
Two “big” posts are getting ready in the qeue: the first one is a book review (that is, the second one of my vacation series) and the other is more ...
Autumn cleaning
I know that most of my readers are in the Northern Hemisphere, where the tradition of spring cleaning is in full swing. I live “down there”, however...
Learning how to program
Learning computer programming has been one of my secret longings for so many years. I go back to the eighties, doing a stone age BASIC littered with POKEs and P...
Neo-Orthodoxy or Fundamentalism?
In a recent post, Tim lamented the fact that some self-labeled “Fundamentalists” had their priorities wrong. He specifically cited an instance where...
Back from Curitiba
I am happy to say that I made it back from Curitiba. The Conference was very good, and lived up to my expectations: it would be a real blessing for my brethren,...
Don Victorio, again
Don Victorio, my father-in-law, is in the hospital again. His family is taking care of him. His prognosis looks good, but again, this is a stressful time for al...
Touching base
This is a small post just to say that I am still alive. I’m planning to do in the next couple of days two reviews of very good books. They will be backdat...
Continental Philosophy since 1750: A Review
Robert C. Solomon. Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self. No. 7 in the series A History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Vacation time!
Januray has been extremely busy but rewarding. I am involved in typesetting yet another book with LaTeX; this time is a medical manual with lots of outlines. Th...
Word Press 2.0
This is a short note to tell you that I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It certainly looks better; we’ll see how it works.
Wrapping up the year
Today is the last day of the year. It’s been a long time since my last post, but life has been hectic. Thankfully, I was able to finally purchase a Toyota...
Opening for a Medical Resident, Anyone?
A very close friend of the family asked me if I could look for an opening for a medical resident for his son. His son, (let’s call him M) is age 38, a lat...
A new car?
Life here goes on at a hectic pace. I’m preparing some posts, and also I am preparing an answer to Ed regarding worship (gist: he is mostly right, but I w...
Happy Reformation Day!
Today, October 31st, is Reformation Day. 488 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the castle church of Wittenberg, and the world was tot...
The Aestethics of Christian Worship
Two days ago, my boss pointed me out to a very significative statement made by Denton Lotz, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. The statement was m...
KDE 3.5 is brewing; get ready!
I just sent my tiny part of Spanish translation for the upcoming 3.5 release of the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. It wasn’t a l...
A Sermon on the Lord’s Supper
Sermon preached some Sunday in 2000, exact date unknown, at Villa Morra Baptist Church, Asunción, Paraguay, South America. Note: Since I preached this message ...
Dad’s Dead Kidneys
I am about to post a sermon (well, in fact it is more of a Bible study) about the Lord’s Supper. I was meaning to do so for days, but urgent things kept p...
A belated First Anniversary
This day, this dreadful day, let each contend; No rest, no respite, till the shades descend; Till darkness, or till death, shall cover all: Let the war bleed, a...
Slackware 10.2 released
Great news! Patrick Volkerding, the man responsible for the Slackware distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system announced the release of Slackware 10.2. Th...
Unicomp Model M: Blast from the Past!
Many of you might know that I am a huge fan of the IBM Model M keyboard, that old “clicky” keyboard that used to come with the IBM PS/2. I searched ...
The Wine of Life
Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falli...
A (very late) Book Meme
Tim tagged me for a book meme some ages ago. Dialup and time crunch prevented me again from doing this before; but here it is at last: How many books have I own...
Swan Lake, and ludicrous prices.
On Saturday, August 20th, my wife and I went to see Swan Lake, the famous ballet with music by Tchaikovsky, presented by the City of Asunción Classic and Moder...
The Revenge of the Sith
My wife spent Thursday and Friday at bed, with a particularly tiring case of the flu. In Saturday, however, she felt a lot better, so in order to celebrate we w...
Well, finally…
I finally could finish and deliver that project that bugged me and prevented me from blogging further. I have a thoughtful post in the works, and I hope to post...
Happy 4th of July!
I haven’t been blogging lately since there’s a large work deadline looming. But I would like to wish all my American friends a happy (though belated...
Why Mozilla Failed Me
You might know already that the Mozilla Foundation decided to stop further development of the Mozilla Suite, concentrating the resources on the more successful ...