KDE 3.4.1, at long last
You might remember that I used to run KDE 3.4-beta 1. That was under Slackware 10.0. When I upgraded to Slack 10.1, I was forced to revert to KDE 3.3.2. There w...
Author: Eduardo
The Boom Box Issue
I would like to share with you something that happened to my wife at her work. She is blessed to work at an evangelical (Baptist) institution with a large staff...
Three Virtues of a Victorious Church
Sermon preached on Sunday, April 24, at New Life Baptist Temple Church, Asunción, Paraguay, South America. Text: The main text is Acts 9:31: So the church throu...
Yet another WordPress hole
My scarce blogging time has to be devoted again to another WordPress warning. There is a SQL injection bug in WordPress 1.5.x. Every user is strongly encouraged...
Upgraded (again…)
As it is explained in this updated post, the WordPress developers inadvertently messed up with feeds and trackbacks in the 1.5.1 release. They posted a fix, ver...
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1
I’m here, back from the dead… ;-). Sorry for not being able to write; dialup access in a country where phone access is paid by the minute is indeed ...
Cold Mountain: Isn’t that Jim Caviezel?
I watched Cold Mountain the other day. Nothing new here; the movie is mostly irrelevant but not entirely bad. However, I have a question for people who might ha...
A Little Story About the New Pope
The world is pretty much awash with the news that Joseph Card. Ratzinger is the new Pope, under the name of Benedictus XVI. I’ll tell you a story about hi...
You Won’t See My Photo Around
Last Wednesday I was getting ready for an important meeting where I was supposed to make a presentation, when I turned on the TV just because I wanted to pinpoi...
Yikes! I’m back!
Shortly before Holy Week I lost my database. It turned out that there was a HUGE misconfiguration and that my database (the archive containing all the posts and...
Slackware 10.1: First Impressions
I installed Slackware 10.1 on elrohir over the last week. As I said before, it was mostly a normal ride, and Patrick Volkerding is to be commended for making su...
I’m still alive
I am pressed to finish a job that is fast approaching its deadline. After that –which I expect is going to be anytime today– I plan to post about my...
So far, so good…
I finally managed to get Slackware 10.1 running well. For the most part it was smooth sailing, but I had an ugly issue with ALSA and my sound cart that gave me ...
What’s up with blogs4God?
I saw in my blogroll that blogs4God was recently updated, so I went there to visit. In the last days I got this error: You don’t have permission to access...
Biblical or Systematic Theology?
Lee at Two-Edged Sword has a thought-provoking post commenting about the dislike on some circles for Systematic Theology, preferring Biblical Theology instead. ...
Gmail invites, anyone?
I got some Gmail invites, so if you like to get one of those just tell me here. First come, first served.
Stop the Presses! Two Breaking News!
Today we have not one, but two big stories: 1. First of all, Slackware 10.1 was released today. You can read the announcement and the ChangeLog (complete with a...
Your License, Please…
I decided to put the entire contents of this blog, except where otherwise noted, under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons License. I think this is a g...
A Stench in the Nostrils of Civilization
The image you see at the right is a portrait of Ford Hendrickson, an independent missionary who worked in Venezuela first, and then in Paraguay. He was born on ...
Back to work
This is just a short note to tell everyone that I’m back to work (and blogging). I would like to thank all the guest bloggers for enriching this blogs wit...
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....
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...