Archive for January, 2008

quote of the day

Friday, January 25th, 2008

“The fact that there is a great divide between what education ought to be and what it actually is suggests that there is someone who is benefiting from the status quo.” - Ms. Melinda Selmys1

Ms. Melinda Selmys. “The Cluelessness Crisis Part 1: The 5 Essentials of Education” The National Catholic Registrar. January [...]

quote of the day

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

“He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do [...]

I knew it

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Yesterday I spent my work day converting a number of xen virtual servers into physical servers. There has got to be a better way than what I did, but I do not know of a rescue environment that has rsync installed (to my surprise, I tried several with no luck), and I did not [...]

Christianophobia

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The term has been used in a couple of UN documents, and the Europe for Christ! network has launched a .eu website to deal with it.1 Would such a term be useful in dealing with the liberals here? I suspect not.

Zenit.org “Where It’s Not Easy Being Christian” ZENIT. 2008-01-14 http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-21492 ↩