Category: General

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...

There are few things as peaceful and beautiful as snowfall. It may not always be convenient, but at least for the moment it is happening, it is a wonder filled ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I finally had enough. Yesterday I tried to do a trivial sort of a list that is part of a larger LaTeX document. Well, it turned out that I can’t unless I ...

This is a short post just to wish everyone of you a very happy Christmas. We spent Christmas night with my parents. When midnight arrive, everyone at the house ...

… to blog anything. However, some things must be noted: Tim had some rough times with the otherwise excellent Fantastico software. I am sorry to learn tha...

There is a new stable version of WordPress, the blog engine that powers, among others, the blogs of Josiah, Ed, and mine. There are a number of security and bug...

I just handed our photocopier boy a printed (in inkjet, no less) copy of the 450-page (letter size) manual I’ve been typesetting. I feel exhilaration and ...

This Sunday is so far going well. I had Sunday School at church with a fairly large attendance and good interest of the audience. Since last Sunday, we are stud...

Since we are starting the season of Advent, I thought appropriate to put parts of Redemption Song (from Bob Marley, heard in the cover of Moodswings): Excerpts ...

I am swamped again in a deluge of LaTeX code. That is, I am typesetting a fairly large and convoluted book using LaTeX as my typesetting platform. This effectiv...

Tim kindly put online my interview with noted KDE hacker (and friend) Scott Wheeler on KDE Multimedia. In the interview, Scott discusses present and future of K...

Few Bible quotes get more impressive in its despair and hopelessness than this: Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when...

This comes courtesy of Rebecca. You Are a Pundit Blogger! Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by onl...

James at Knowtown tells the sad story of how his son is learning the fact that different people have different political opinions and that these opinions elicit...

On this day, November 02, the Roman Catholic calendar marks The Day of the Deceased Faithful. This day is set aside to commemorate the deceased relatives of Cat...

I’m extremely tired and about to shut down the system. I’ve been working tirelessly and without pause, but at least I am beginning to see the fruit ...

As I write now, I am getting a deluge of comments from some guy which is trying to advertise his crap. Sorry guy, I’m not going to let it through if I can...

Yesterday at 00.00 the clock was put forward one hour by a decree of our Government. This is Paraguayan Daylight Savings Time. As a result, I slept one hour les...

I’ve been swamped this week with a deluge of work. I had to setup the WordPress site I told you in the previous post; now I have to setup another one, and...

I saw this morning that Tim posted on Open for Business the OfB Choice Awards 2004. Tim is to be commended for doing such a hard job of researching countless ca...

The Christian Carnival #37 is up at Intolerant Elle. I chimed in with a devotional on Romans 15:7. The quality of the posts is very good, and I encourage you to...

Yesterday we had a national holiday, so I did not post. I checked the blog and my mail from home using dialup. On September 29, 1932, the Bolivian forces statio...