Archive for February, 2007

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quote of the day

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

“In short, by suppressing generality and universal law, you suppress liberty; and what you have left is nothing but that amorphous impulse surging out of the night which is but a false image of liberty.” - Jacques Maritain

xenify!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Over the weekend, Vincas and I made a series of breakthroughs that have resulted in a working setup to replace server1. We got xen, ldap, and ocfs2 each to work, and to play nicely with the others. We chose ocfs2 after realizing that gfs does not work in debian etch right now, and [...]

localizers

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Hitachi announced[1] a significant step towards localizers[2], with tiny little dust-like RFID tags. Next they need to develop tiny little antennas to match, and then little Diamond Age[3] nanoprocesors.

BBC News. “World’s tiniest RFID tag unveiled” BBC News Technology section (online) 2007-02-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6389581.stm Mr. Vernor Vinge. Deepness in the Sky. ISBN-10: 0312856830 [...]

Quote of the day

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

“Vanity it is, to wish to live long, and to be careless to live well.” - Thomas A Kempis

Lauren will appreciate this quote.

A Pro-life contrast

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

This morning I woke up to a stark contrast. On one hand, a 13 year old girl was ordered by an Italian judge to abort her baby.[1] On the other, a tiny little baby born only 21 weeks and six days after conception at the end of October is going home, with a [...]

quote of the day

Monday, February 19th, 2007

“Then the boy’s father cried out, ‘I do believe, help my unbelief!’”[1]

Mark 9:24

re: gaim annoyances

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

I see the following questions from a debian developer:[1]

How can I make Gaim stop auto-hiding its conversation windows?

You have loaded a plugin to make it do this. The only one that I recall us distributing iconifies the windows when you are away, but others have been written to hide them at other times.

How can [...]

Fighting AIDS

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Entitled “Abstinence Saves Lives,” this[1] article from the National Catholic Register provides a look at the fight against AIDS in Uganda, the only success story in Africa.

The Editors. “Abstinence Saves Lives” National Catholic Register. 2006-02-13 http://ncregister.com/site/article/1909/

Human regeneration

Monday, February 12th, 2007

The Wall Street Journal (no link available) reports that scientists are treating wounded Iraqi War veterans with a substance from pigs that seems to resurrect the ability to regenerate organs and other body parts–an ability possessed by fetuses but lost after birth. In this case, the scientists hope to regenerate parts of fingers the soldiers [...]

more details

Monday, February 12th, 2007

This[1] article has some more details of the reaction to my my previous post by the scientific community, or rather, their reaction to the article I posted about. It also differs on when the research was published, claiming last week instead of late last year. Still, it appears that the research is being [...]

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