Archive for October, 2006
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006A woman was recently suspended from her job at British Airways because she wore a tiny cross, “smaller than a ten pence peace.” Astounded, she said that, “I will not hide my belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf…Only Christians are forbidden to express their faith.”[1]
Mr. Douglas Sylva. [...]
We do not need embrionic stem cells
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006The title of this article says it all: “Liver cells grown from cord blood.”[1] While this will not yield organs for liver transplants yet, this will significantly aid drug development and testing, avoiding at least some of the need for human and animal testing. Without any of the moral problems of embryonic stem [...]
Mutt & gevolution
Monday, October 30th, 2006Mr. Stefano Zacchiroli’s thoughts[1] on Mutt and gaim’s evolution integration have motivated me to write a little on each.
I like mutt. I really do. Ever since Mr. Ethan Blanton introduced me to it, it has served me well. Recently though I started using Mail.app, the OSX mail client, for my personal mail. [...]
the undoing of a myth
Monday, October 30th, 2006Abortion proponents have long argued that a right to abortion should be guaranteed by international law because restricting abortion leads to high maternal mortality. However, UN reports such as the 1991 World Health Organization (WHO) report “Maternal Mortality, A Global Factbook,” conclude that decreased maternal mortality rates in the developed world, “coincided with [...]
trac
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006As I get used to trac, I am slowly coming to like it. It is not so horrid as SF is. Hopefully we can work out the remaining issues!
temperature woes
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The thermostat for this office is downstairs. It is set to 65. I want to talk to Eric before I raise it much more, I do not want to be needlessly expensive. But I am really tempted to raise it, not because I am particularly cold at 65, but because it is [...]
We have a server!
Thursday, October 19th, 2006We finally have a server to host the project!! Donated and hosted by dvlabs.com, this is a huge step forward for us as a project. I am slowly configuring it, getting apache2, subversion, planet, mysql, and such up and running. It is a slow process, but fortunately we are not pressed for [...]
Happy feast day to me
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006Today is St. Luke’s feast day. I should re-read Dear and Glorious Physician. Fortunately Mom owns a copy. I remember the effort that took to get her one, as it was already out of print then.
Gaim forks
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006Today in the gaim forum[1], a user proposed forking gaim because of the slowness and selfishness with which we proceed.[2] If it happens it will not be the first such fork, but rather the third or forth such. The only unique thing about it will be that will be libgaim based.
I have always [...]
Only to get bad news
Monday, October 16th, 2006and learn I go in again on the 2nd.
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