Guest: Small Victories, Deep Sorrows
Previous posts from our host, Eduardo, have told the tales of how often a church can be a battle ground far uglier than, say, the politics of the Ukraine. That ...
Month: January 2005
Guest: Current Alternatives to Word Processing
During my investigation of ways to back off resource hogs for getting work done, it’s already been noted repeatedly there is no console word processor, an...
Guest: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
If Coffee Anonymous ever comes into being, I’d probably have to become a card-carrying member. I love that wonderfully strong, aromatically delightful dri...
Summer Movies Galore: K-19: The Widowmaker
When K-19: The Widowmaker first came to our town, I passed on the opportunity to see it; “I don’t need another catastrophe on film”, I thougt....
The Myth of Self-Esteem
One of the majorly destructive myths of US culture is that self-esteem needs to be built up to a healthy level. There are a few things patently wrong with this....
Guest: Blogging and Journalistic Transparency
Serious bloggers don’t take themselves too seriously. If they did, there’s too a good a chance no one else would. A very human necessity in publicat...
"Tron" or Windows vs. GNU/Linux
For Christmas, I received "Tron" (The 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition). Things have settled down enough so that I was able to view it today...
Guest: Cry for the Console
Sometimes I like to think I know how John the Baptist must have felt. He was described as the lone voice crying in the Wilderness (John 1:23). From time to time...
Gone fishin’
Today marks the start of my long, overdue, and law-mandated vacation. I’ll be, God willing, vacationing from Jan 17 thru Feb 1. Please pray for a good, re...
The slow death of sombragris
My trusty laptop sombragris is dying a slow death. That was pretty evident since a long, long time ago, but it wasn’t painful, at least until yesterday. Y...
See you later, Krokodile
The K Desktop Environment released yesterday KDE 3.4 beta 1, code named “Krokodile”. Slackware packages were ready right from the start, and I left ...
Why I blog in English
Virginia asked me a very good question: Why do I blog in English? That’s actually a very good question, and the answer, while straightforward, is somethin...
Summer movies galore
Summer is here in full swing, and our VCR is, too :). We’ve been renting a lot of tapes with movies to watch. So far, I remember watching Troy, King Arthu...
Welcome, HAC
I would like to introduce my readers to Amanda, a college sophomore with a philosophy major. Her blog posts look a lot like the quaestiones quotlibetales of old...
Comment fundraiser
Greg Hammond and family is hosting a comment fundraiser in loving memory of Greg’s late wife, Cheryl. Each comment in the linked post above will be matche...
A hard time at my church
This week is hard for my church. A beloved and respected senior lady passed away after battling a long illness; and the 21-year old son of one of our missionari...
Happy New Year!
First post! (of the new year, of course.) We spent a nice New Year’s Eve dinner at my in-laws’ largely enjoying the family. When the clock marked mi...