Archive for April, 2007

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beta7

Monday, April 30th, 2007

We released beta7 last night. I think Sean scared people off by saying that this is the first of the betas to actually be of “beta” quality. Still, there have been about 15 thousand downloads of it so far, and very few bug reports. My colleagues deserve the credit for this, working [...]

Old (SF) tracker items

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

It has come to my attention that when I changed the SF Bug, RFE, Support, gtk-bugs, and rejected patches trackers to be visible to project members only, SF stopped sending emails out to people who had commented on those items, but are not project members.

I closed these trackers down shortly after our public release because [...]

My Daemon

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Here is the link to it.

Verizon

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Today in the logs I notice that Verizon is denying all mail from pidgin.im. While less than pleased with this, I am also reluctant to jump through hoops for every ISP out there. We run very standard mailing list software (mailman), and with the sole exception of having migrated users over from the [...]

Quote of the day

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

“Abortion, contraception and other attacks on motherhood cannot achieve equality because they undermine the premise that women and men are equal. Only if we assume that women, in their natural state, are less able than men to make valuable contributions to society, will we insist that women must be corrected, by chemicals or by surgery, [...]

Saint Stephen

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Today’s first reading is from the Acts of the Apostles, telling about the martyrdom of Saint Stephen.1 Reading this, I am reminded that sometimes it is more important to proclaim the Truth than to remain on good terms with your listeners.

That being said, whenever possible, to do both is far better. Saint Stephen, [...]

Spam

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

In the last week or so, the level of spam reaching my inbox in the form of comments and trackbacks in need of moderation has grown from nearly none to many a day. I suspect this has to do with having one category of posts syndicated at planet.pidgin.im. As a result, I have [...]

Shared Excitement

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Fr. Frank Pavone, M.E.V. shares my excitement and reasoning.[1] He goes on at much greater length, emphasizing the importance of electing pro-life officials, and looking ahead at some of the hints on future progress the decision gives.

Mr. Wesley J. Smith is cautiously pleased.[2] He is concerned that this ruling can be seen [...]

Water on the fire

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Mr. Motte Brown does not share my optimism.[1] He rightly notes that this does not really limit access to abortions, and that the alternative procedures are at least as gruesome as that which has been banned.

This is the first ban on abortion in any form to be upheld though. That is something to [...]

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN UPHELD!

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

“The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.”[1] This is awesome news!

It is also just the first step. Abortion is murder, and until society recognizes that and reacts appropriately, we have [...]

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