I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
The English Standard Version is a fairly new English translation of the Bible which, as I understand it, tries to be as literal to the text as possible while trying to avoid some of the sometimes wooden phrasing found in very literal translations like the New American Standard. I tend to like this side of [...]
I thought I killed it. Long ago. But as I was doing a vanity search, I found a live copy of my old site running. Hmph. Dawn of the Website. thud… thud… thud… THUD… THUD… GRRRRRRRR!
Most people, when sending an email to a large group of people, simply go to their To: or Cc: field and start entering names. This is dreadful. It’s terrible. You must never do this. Why? Because if I am one of fifty people in that list of recipients, then you have just shared my email address [...]
He started with one red paperclip, and traded up to a house. Great story.
According to this it’s worth $1,693.62. Isn’t that funny. I remember checking about three months ago and it was worth $0.00. So at this rate, I’ll be worth millions soon. It must be the rapier wit, piercing political insights, deep philosophical challenges, and world-moving technology assessments. Or a broken algorithm.
You didn’t even know I had one, did you? Permalinks are (in part) simply web page links that make a little more sense when you read them than index.php?p=123 does. I’m running my site on a Mac running system 10.4 (Tiger) and Apache, PHP, and MySQL (a combination sometimes referred to as MAMP). Anyway, WordPress 2 [...]
I know my readers include both those who will yawn at this as old news, and those who’ve never heard of such a thing, but in the spirit of flickr.com, del.icio.us and similar “social” web offerings, I went ahead and started to set up a LibraryThing account. Pretty neat stuff. You’re able to have a very [...]
Do you have any idea what Google could end up knowing about us? They offer free web searching, free email, free calendars, free spreadsheets, free word processing, free mapping… and we use them! A lot! And soon, Google Payments. So what does Google get for this? Ad revenues, to be sure. But what they really get is [...]
I was going to chronicle my epic, nearly week long struggle with Qwest and USFamily.net, but I think I just need to let the whole episode slip into fading history. We’re back up and Helen has posted something about it, so I think I’ll leave it lay. However, I do want to congratulate modern corporate society [...]
Since I’m a bit busy due to our internet outage, here’s a couple of little keyboard tricks for Mac: function-delete deletes forward instead of backwards option-delete deletes a whole word backwards Thrilling, eh? Well, I couldn’t find them online when I wanted them, so there you go.