Rosie Perera, writing in Comment, examines the relationship between faith and technology in her essay “Loving Technology, Loving God.” She is an unabashed technophile, and she explains how this love can co-exist with, and be fed by, her love of God. Much of what she writes resonates with me, as we share vocation (programmer). I […]
Posted on February 11th, 2007 by admin
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After botching a downgrade at our web host, we were no longer able to use Movable Type for managing the site. Not a terrible problem to have, except without access to the manager, I couldn’t export our content. I was able to get MT running on a laptop at home, so I restored our database, […]
Posted on February 10th, 2007 by admin
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This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
Posted on February 9th, 2007 by admin
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The United States had a historic cycling day on the Continent at the World Cyclocross championships, held at Hooglede-Gits, Belgium. First, Katie Compton took the silver medal in the women’s race, and Jonathan Page followed with a silver in the men’s race. An American has never medaled. Page’s result is even more impressive given the […]
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by admin
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Listen, the snow is falling over town… Bands of snow squalls had been coming and going all day. While the pine trees across the road were collecting snow, the roads were still wet. Then, at around 5:00pm, after my nose had been buried in a bug for an hour, I noticed I couldn’t see much […]
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by admin
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Recently, MIT’s Technology Review featured an article on the $100 laptop and the One Laptop per Child program. These projects are attempting to export hope in the form of education and limitless technology. While upon first glance these seem to be worthy goals, but they lose their luster a bit when thinking about their effects […]
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by admin
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I’ve always liked that the folks at Hen Waller used their site as a bit of a recipe repository. I’ve done that a bit in the past here, so I thought I’d do again, by giving an overview of what we eat for dinner during the course of a normal week. At one time, before […]
Posted on January 10th, 2007 by admin
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We sent in the deposit for our 2007 CSA share with Mildreds’ Daughters’ Urban Farm this morning. We’ve purchased a full share this year, given that we still had to supplement a bit with the half share last year. Additionally, half-shares this year will get a full share every two weeks, instead of a half […]
Posted on January 9th, 2007 by admin
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James Howard Kunstler has an essay in the latest edition of Orion entitled “Making Other Arrangements.” This is classic Kunstler (minus the expletives), outlining the problems facing the United States thanks to increasing energy scarcity. Kunstler, however, is not all fire and brimstone–he outlines how we can deal with the changes that may lie ahead, […]
Posted on January 7th, 2007 by admin
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The Port Authority and Allegheny County have announced massives cuts in public transportation services for Pittsburgh. This, of course, has prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth, and much of the reaction is warranted. It is, however, important to realize that this is not the first time such cutbacks and rate hikes have been proposed. Generally, […]
Posted on January 4th, 2007 by admin
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