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unfoggable glasses

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

In much lighter news, glasses might get somewhat easier to wear thanks to some research funded by the Defense Department.[1] It seems they have developed some combination of glass and silica that does not fog! Beyond the military and automotive uses that the article describes, just think about having a pair of glasses with [...]

Ignoring the separation of Diocease and Parish

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

In a potentially huge decision, a federal bankruptcy judge has ignored the fact that the various parishes and schools in the Diocese of Spokane are each independent legal entities, making the full property of each available to be liquidated to pay off the sex-abuse settlements.[1] Mr. William Donahue, president of the Catholic League, and lawyers [...]

Maildir, imap, and webmail

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Apparently my maildir woes with imap stem from the fact that dovecot cannot handle a mix of maildir and mbox folders.[1] Next I am going to try mailutils-imap4d.

UPDATE 2005-08-30-12:14: mailutils-imap4d is no good. squirrelmail cannot get its inbox, imp3 cannot log in at all with it. I am back to dovecot for now.

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apache2

Monday, August 29th, 2005

William emailed me today, apparently the Archdiocease of Philidephia is blocking outgoing port 22, or at least that seems to be the case from a quick email diagnosis. My first thought solution was to switch him to vnc, I quickly installed tightvncserver and the associated webserver plugin, but that was a no go. [...]

Jellyfish shut down reactor

Monday, August 29th, 2005

In unusual and amusing news today, I learn that an accumulation of jellyfish caused a reactor shutdown in Sweden.[1] While of no particular significance, I found it amusing.

[1] The Associated Press. “Jellyfish Cause Reactor Shutdown in Sweden” BREITBART.COM, INC. (online). 2005-08-29 http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/29/D8C9HR480.html

A Darwinist exposes myths

Monday, August 29th, 2005

It is nice to see that even some who do not believe in Intelligent Design are coming to realize that the defense of Darwinism is anything but scientific.[1] The misrepresentations of Intelligent Design and those who support it should be incredibly embarrassing to those who think Darwinism true. If they cannot debate Intelligent Design on [...]

Parents lose the right to make medical decisions for their children

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Heartless and immoral doctors won a “victory” yesterday, preserving the decision in a court case that allows them to refuse to resuscitate a 22-month old baby who has serious lung, brain and kidney damage.[1] Even though the baby has progressed further and is doing better than the doctors and judges thought possible, still the justices [...]

The Earth’s core spins independently

Friday, August 26th, 2005

I need to read Deep Hot Biosphere[1] again. I no longer remember his ideas well enough to know how they would mesh with seismic evidence that the Earth’s core is rotating faster than the surface is.[2] This, and related research that shows that the mantle is also spinning faster, provides at least some proof [...]

IQ test study

Friday, August 26th, 2005

The news today is in an uproar about a BBC report of some research that seems to indicate that men, after 14 or 15, tend to be more intelligent than women.[1] First of all, as a caveat, I am not at all sure how much good IQ tests are. That they have non-trivial flaws is [...]

A format for content

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Reading one of Martin F. Krafft’s entries in Planet Debian,[1] I learned about an interesting format called “reStructuredText.”[2] At first glance, it appears to live up to its name as being simple and easy to use. It is somewhat related to the wiki formatting styles you commonly see, but not requiring the html input [...]

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