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, ...
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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...
One More Year
Today I’m officially one year older. So far, it is a nice day; I had lunch with the family, amidst a nice day at the office. And in a few minutes, I am su...
Some updates
Well, another month has passed. Someone took my month away! 😉 In fact, life has been hectic. Thankfully, finals are over, and with it another semester. I feel r...
Law School
Some of you may have seen scattered references to law school in my previous posts and therefore wondered about it. The gist of the story is that I am, in fact, ...
Don Victorio, RIP
You might remember about my father-in-law, Don Victorio, because I wrote about him previously (see Don Victorio the Spaniard). Today I am writing about him to t...
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...
Extremely. Tired.
Here I am, at 2.35 am, working at a term paper I should submit to Law School. Yeah right, domicile theory should be straightforward… famous last words. 😉 ...
Happy Easter!
We are about to finish an exhausting Holy Week. For those of you who live up North, Holy Week in Paraguay is almost entirely a holiday week, thus providing a mu...
Wireless? Yeah!
There’s a story with sombragris, the trusty laptop that my brother, friend and namesake Ed Hurst graciously gave me. Sombragris is a Dell Latitude D505, a...
The Historic Ships at Vapor-Cué
The inscription at the flag says: “This flag was the last one to wave on the Yhaguy River, on the boat Pirabebe. One of the sailors was Hermenegildo Almir...
KDE 4.2: Oh. My. Goodness…
Yep. That darned thing left me breathless. After roughly 14-15 h of compiling (that is excluding dependencies, such as Qt which alone took > 4h, and KOffice ...
KDE 4.2 released!
That’s right. You can read all the gory details at the announcement. This new version promises a host of improvements over previous versions. The fact is,...
Lazy summer
Our summer is slowly passing by with no major news. I am still without a job, but we are praying for a new one. Days are usually hot, but now we are going throu...
Merry Christmas!
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior… for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his merc...
Slackware 12.2 on sombragris
I was able to upgrade the Slackware setup on sombragris the trusty laptop, to Slackware 12.2 without any problem. I didn’t install KDE, though; rather, I ...
The Last Day of My Current Job
As I told you before, Rev. S. (my boss) told me that my current job would run through December 31. Well, today my boss told me that he already needed the office...
Linux Canuck’s: How to Help a Newbie
Wandering through the Web, I found this piece by Linux Canuck: How to Help a Newbie. The writing is full of excellent advice; therefore I am glad to recommend i...
Today’s Collects from the Daily Office
Given the sorry state of world affairs, these collects make great prayers: Most gracious God and Father, in whose will is our peace: turn our hearts and the hea...
Life goes on
After Dad’s passing, everything went to normal. All my daily chores, school, work, errands, reading, study, and so on, were exactly the same as usual̷...
Goodbye Dad
After battling several chronic illnesses, my father passed away on Thursday, November 6, 2008. He was 72 years old. His passing away happened after a one week o...
Is Christian Perfectionism a Danger for the Church?
The other day Rev. S. confided me that one of our pastors was causing some stir within our church’s pastoral team. It is a problem that is bound to happen...
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...
On Porn: A side note
First, a disgression. I know it’s been a long time since I posted something substantial here. This is because of my busy life, and in part… because ...
A Spanish Translation of Borges’ “Two English Poems”
The national Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color published in its Cultural Supplement a translation I made of the famous Two English Poems of Jorge Luis Borges. I pr...
Thirty Eight Years
Thanks to the Lord’s grace and mercy, I turned 38 years old last Thursday. I didn’t want any celebrations; however, I had a nice noon dinner with th...
Law and Testimony
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB) Once I read in an online foru...
Back to preaching
After a long hiatus, I was invited to preach at my church’s youth group at their weekly Saturday evening meeting. I preached on the “falls of the ju...