Updates on the Home Front
Moving On with Moving. Things have been quite busy around here lately. I continue to be very busy at work, and that is also true of my wife. At the end of the d...
Category: General
The Fourth of July: A Plea And Plenty of Fireworks
Please bear with me; I am going to rant a little bit about politics. Today we commemorate the Independence Day of the United States of America. It is an occasio...
Two World Cups
Right now there are at least two world cups going: One is the famous FIFA Football World Cup. Paraguay is supposed to play in the next hours against Sweden, aft...
Ed Hurst: Wordless Longings
My brother and namesake Rev. Ed Hurst has the rare gift of writing with Biblical wisdom, clarity, sensitivity and uncompromising force. I regard him as a modern...
A Hidden Tax on Foreigners
This is a pet peeve of mine and I am going to rant against it. Please bear with me. I hate tipping. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate it. My disli...
A Primer on Hispanic Names
This is a short post aimed at helping my English-speaking readers on how to correctly parse and distinguish Hispanic names. Given the facts of an increasingly g...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...