A Translator’s Worst Nightmare?
When I had to sit for the qualification exams for my Public Translator certification, I had to face what I would call “a translator’s worst nightmar...
Author: Eduardo
Cold Sunday
We had a rather cold day today, with temperatures of 15 C (58-60 F) on the air. This might not seem cold; but we also had rain, mists, and a polar southern wind...
A Challenging Week, Upgrades…
This has been a challenging week. Things are not going as well as I would have wished in the financial front; but we are holding on. But the most difficult prob...
Paraguayan Traditions: The First Day of August
Paraguayans think that if you make it past August, chances are good that you will survive for one more year. Old maids say that this month is especially hard on...
Writing projects
Right now I am immersed in two small writing projects for OfB.biz: A review of the Unicomp Model M keyboard: This is basically an expansion of this post, with m...
Happy 4th of July!
I would like to wish a happy Independence Day to all my American readers. Have a nice day! Pass some of the barbecue! Watch out that cracker! 😉
Serious Fun Ahead ;)
I’m in for some serious fun of the best kind. I just learned that Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 12.0 yesterday. The changes from 11.0 are deep and...
“Some things the Linux Community still doesn’t get”… really?
Ramkumar Shankar writes on his blog: “The day when Linux will take over the desktop (or at least have a significant footprint in the market) is still not ...
Way to go Fred!
Browsing over LXer, the GNU/Linux news site edited by my brother and friend Don Parris, I found this interview with Fred Miller. Fred is an old friend, back fro...
A Pastor in Aparecida
Rev. Harold Segura works with World Vision Latin America and he also serves as the Director of Theological Education for the Union of Baptists in Latin America....
Luke: What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?
I found this excellent article at All Unkept, Luke Plant’s blog : What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?. It is a great application of slippery-slope...
A Round of Upgrades
Last week I was busy downloading and installing a fairly comprehensive round of upgrades: WordPress 2.2: I upgraded all of my WordPress sites to version 2.2. Ve...
Happy Mothers’ Day!
As usual, tomorrow is Mothers’ Day in the Paraguayan holiday calendar. In our culture, this is a really important celebration. I suspect we will end up sp...
I need a dynamo!
On Sunday night, my car began to sound a high-pitched loud alarm a few seconds after it started. Yesterday, after a lot of goings between the mechanic and the c...
Some Good News for a Change
Today I would like to tell some good news. On March 29 and 30 I had to sit on two rather tiring qualifying exams to achieve the certification of Registered Publ...
Weird Samba Problem
I was asked by my church to set up a GNU/Linux box to be used as a Samba file server. The hardware is a rather nice Dell PowerEdge SC440 server with a Xeon proc...
Some Updates
This month has been hectic! I find myself overwhelmed with work, but even then there are some things to share with you. Letters, yay! I got two letters that mad...
Stop the Presses: WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgrade Immediately to 2.1.2!
Oh, boy. They messed up big time. The good folks at WordPress discovered that some 2.1.1 releases contained a trojan horse added by a cracker. Consequently, the...
On Porn: Responses to Porn Consumption
See also: On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure On Porn: Defining Porn, and Double Standards On Porn: Arguments Against It Examined On Porn: Some Interesting...
Sun, beaches and sea
Well, it has been a long time again! This time, the lack of posting was because my wife and I went away on vacation! Our location was the beautiful island of Fl...
Bible-related Items
I would like to comment on some news related to the Bible. I intended to comment on some of those for a long time; thankfully, now I can 🙂 1. ESV Sales Growing ...
A-Z of Me in 1-2-3
Hat tip goes to Tim, who tagged me. A- Available or married? Married. B- Best Friend? I got great friends, but the one that really shines through is my wife. Ho...
Hospitalized
It has been a long time since my previous post. One of the reasons for my lack of posting was something that never happened to me before: I was hospitalized. On...
WordPress 2.1
The WordPress folks released version 2.1 just some days ago. I just upgraded my WordPress sites to it; and so far, so good. Upgrading is recommended, if only fo...
The “Evangelicals and Mary” Question
Early this morning I saw an article on First Things magazine written by Professor Timothy George of Beeson Divinity School: Evangelicals and the Mother of God. ...
WordPress 2.0.7. Argghhh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah… The good folks at WordPress have released WordPress 2.0.7. This release contains several bugfixes and a potentially important security i...
Slax is priceless
I am growing more and more fond of Slax. Slax is a “live” (as in “live CD”) GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fa...
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6
I just finished upgrading my WordPress sites to WordPress 2.0.6. It includes a number of fixes, and an important security issue among them, so upgrading is high...