a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Give thanks and praise: native OpenOffice arriving next month: “
Filed under: Software, Productivity
No, you aren’t hallucinating: Macworld UK is reporting that a truly native version of OpenOffice (not the java-powered NeoOffice port) will be shipping next month. OpenOffice’s journey to running on Mac OS X in a native format has been a rollercoaster ride over [...]
Well, it only took a little over a month, but I now have internet at the house in San Felipe. I’m stoked.
I was planning a trip to the states yesterday to buy a cantenna, but I would’ve had to go all the way to San Diego since there’s not a compusa or other dealer who [...]
I’ve started a blog to help people who are traveling, vacationing, or interested in purchasing property in Mexico, and specifically San Felipe.
San Felipe has been booming over the past several years, and there’s a lot of interest in this fishing village turned American hotspot.
I do have an agenda with this blog, as I plan to [...]
Martyrdom as the Church’s Answer to War: “
And if we begin with this martyrdom of conscience, our white martyrdom, we will prepare God’s church for the more colorful martyrdom that may still come our way…. It’s right out of the Book of Revelation where the Church follows the Lamb to sacrificial death as a [...]
CNN.com – NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional – Aug 17, 2006
Can you see the large smile on my face?
She declared that the program “violates the separation of powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III.”
Her ruling went on to say that “the [...]
Fitch on Worship: “
And the usual answer focused around the worship event itself — the music, the mood, the activity, the emotions, the song selection, the musical style, the preaching, the worship team’s skill and performance, etc. But Fitch answers the question, ‘Simply put, faithful worship reveals itself in the shape of the lives it [...]
Chertoff: We must “eliminate people who are susceptible to becoming killers”: “Mark Frauenfelder:
Michael Norto (retired journalist: The AP and BBC, 1988-2004, in Haiti)
says:
Heard Aug. 11, an NPR interview with Michael Chertoff, US cop of cops. The question he addresses is long-term anti-terrorist policy, the need for psychological studies of what makes ‘a person [...]
Kathleen Parker’s war on reality: “‘operatives’ = progressives
’stalinist techniques’ = free speech
a candidate who puts ‘country above party’ = a Republican
‘bickering partisans’ = anyone who disagrees with Kathleen Parker
‘mainstream’ = what Republicans think, irrespective of the percentage that think it
‘ stubbornly adolescent’ = anyone who writes intemperate things, not including Kathleen Parker & people who [...]
Update: And now…
Click for Weeds Season 2 on iTunes!
Finally, the Weeds season premiere is here! There’s been a lot of buzz around this show, and I can tell you that ratings will definitely be up and continue to climb if this show just stays even keel with the quality of writing, directing, and [...]
NBC: Hair-gel terrorists posed no risk last week: “Cory Doctorow:
An anonymous ’senior British official knowledgeable about the [hair-gel bombers]‘ told NBC that there was no threat to airplanes last week, that the terrorists had been under surveillance for over a year, and that UK government didn’t plan on arresting these guys until they’d surveilled them [...]