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a place to live, step 2

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

The home inspection went well. It turned up 2 fogged windows and one non-functional power outlet. We have no clue yet if the seller will be willing to fix them or not. I have a little bit of trouble being overly concerned about either. There is also a large pane of [...]

homosexuality as a disease to be cured

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

The study1 findings were released in book form, not in a journal. I suspect that means that its findings are useless and meaningless. Still, a pair of real researchers, working for institutions of higher learning (a college and a university respectively), found a 67% success rate in changing sexual orientation through a program [...]

quote of the day

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” - W. B. Yeats1

W. B. Yeats. “Mere anarchy” This quote found following up on a reference from baranoouji. ↩

Evolution is anti-religion

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Periodically I get challenged on my repeated assertion that Evolution, to the (limited) extent it can be called a single theory, is inherently opposed to theism. Mr. Casey Luskin is here today to back me up on this one, having taken the time to summarize some recent examples of this.1 Such statements as [...]

the powers of freon

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Yesterday the air conditioning service guy recharged the freon in the air handler here at the office. Today for the first time in MONTHS, it is cold here at the office. At least upstairs. There is a nine degree difference between up here and down by the thermostat (colder up here) and [...]

a place to live, step 1

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Once Lauren is able to print off the contract and initial it as needed, we will have a ratified contract on a condo. I am at once very excited and very nervous. This is far and away the biggest purchase I/we have ever made.

God works in mysterious ways. If either of the [...]

quote of the day

Monday, September 17th, 2007

“In our culture, it’s become accepted that men, by their nature, are brutes, jerks or buffoons, while women, by theirs, are loyal, smart and admirable. Men, bad. Women, good. That’s the underlying worldview of the majority of the entertainment, education and even public policy (laws) that surround us. ” - Ms. Candice Watters1

Ms. Candice Watters. [...]

trac excitement

Monday, September 17th, 2007

In the days immediately preceding the 2.2.0 release, I called for some time to be spent looking at the growing backlog of bugs and enhancement requests that has accumulated in trac since we went public with pidgin and finch. Sean in particular responded beyond my hopes, closing more than 100 tickets in just [...]

Bug fixing

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

I spent some time with the wp-randomquotes plugin today. I noticed a few months ago that it was not displaying every quote in the database, and this has been increasingly annoying me.

It took me longer than it should have to track down what was up. The problem was that when I delete a [...]

Catholic schools face closing

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Archbishop Wuerl has proposed making eight of the twelve inner city schools in his diocese into charter schools to save them from closing down completely.1 This would entail changing the names of the schools and removing religion from the curriculum. Once upon a time, a parish would offer free or nearly free [...]

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