Archive for July, 2007

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Frightening news

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Mr. Edward Lucas of the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom brings us frightening news of a strong tendency back towards invasive and pervasive government.1 Looking at the activities of a state sponsored youth group, the author makes comparisons to Hitler’s rise to power and the Hitler youth.

While the bulk of the article focuses [...]

The logical conclusion of political correctness

Friday, July 27th, 2007

They put up a flier advertising their group as “a forum for people of Faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day,” operating “with respect for the natural family, marriage and family values.” They said they opposed efforts “to redefine the natural family and marriage,” and noted that California law acknowledged [...]

The end of a series

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Thanks to Lauren’s patience, I finished Harry Potter tonight. I am well pleased with the series, though I am not at all clear on whose child his whose.

Still free to read the Bible

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

There exists an elementary school that has a “reading time” for its third-grade students, in which they may read a book of their choosing. One child chose to read the Bible, and was told by the school that he may not.1 Unfortunately, I cannot honestly express surprise that this series of events happened [...]

quote of the day

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

“The problem with science is not that the naturalistic approach might occasionally be inadequate. The problem is that science would never know any better. This is science’s blind spot. When problems are encountered, theological naturalism assumes that the correct naturalistic solution has not been found. Non-natural phenomena will be interpreted as natural, regardless of how [...]

giving up on gnucash

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I tried using gnucash the last 3 months, trying to reduce my dependence on commercial software. I am a proponent of open source, so I figured I should be using it where it is available. I really tried. I got used to using expense accounts for categories, even though it means I [...]

openid

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Someone I know from the Pidgin project asked that I install an openid plugin. I am not adverse to the idea, as it should not overly expose me to spam, and so I did some google searching. I found wpopenid on sourceforge, and installed it. It was a pain to get working [...]

quote of the day

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

“If you’re killing mosquitoes to save people from the West Nile virus, you can count on secular environmentalists to lay down in front of the vapor truck, claiming some potential side effect that might result from the spray, but if birth control deforms fish — backed by the proof of an EPA study — and [...]

IQ quiz

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

on forks and forking

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Last night someone saw fit to spam our ticketing system with a comment appended to one ticket, and a new ticket submission with text identical to the preceding comment. These posts are fairly typical of the requests we see for the return of protocol icons, demonstrating the childishness of the requesters, and the typical [...]

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