Where Are The Wise Men?

From Leadership Blog: Out of Ur: Kingdom Confusion 2: The danger of believing in a Christian America:

Instead of providing the culture with a radically alternative way of life, we largely present it with a religious version of what it already is. The myth clouds our vision of God’s distinctly beautiful kingdom and thereby undermines our [...]

I was really excited to get Ubuntu working, because I could then install Beagle without too much pain and suffering, since there was a Ubuntu method. Oh, but there was pain and suffering involved.

Now, before, I get started on what all went wrong, I do have to tell you that it was [...]

One of my complaints about Cygwin is that there is no Java version. I suppose I could compile Blackdown on Cygwin, but I’m talking about Sun or IBM JDK’s here — something that I could really use. Of course, the biggest pain about using a native[1] JDK/JRE in Cygwin is that you have [...]

Through some crazy circumstance, a friend of mine was given some Ubuntu Linux CD’s and didn’t know what they were. Of course, my home computer went south and the easiest method was to just reinstall it — my Gentoo install was old and crusty and needed to be to redone or replaced (this is [...]

One of my worries of moving from de.lirio.us to del.icio.us is that I wanted move my bookmarks to del.icio.us. I thought it would be impossible, but after I remembered how to use del.icio.us API and that you can fetch any of your de.lirio.us’s pages with “page=num&format=rss”, then it was easy.

Hence comes der2del.py, a badly-name [...]

There is too much going on this week to say much in detail. Here are some snippets:

I tried GNU Emacs for Cygwin.  It works fine, until it decides not to refresh.  I’m not sure if it’s because I am running too much, I need to restart Xwin in [...]

I’m finally reading Fowler’s excellent My Job Went to Inda and I wonder why I have put it off for so long. I’m slowing integrating some of his suggestions and the first one is the Todo list — keeping track of what I need to do, project planning, etc. Soon these will turn [...]

A while back, I wrote about using Virtual PC to setup test beds. Even though there are issues (like not booting) with machines running non-MS OS’s (like Linux or Solaris) with high memory (like over 500MB), it works well.

Now we are in the finishing stages of first release since I had some virtual test [...]

Even though this is Lent, I’ll start this DD with a quote from Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”. This happens in the very first chapter of this classic story — Scrooge meets up with the ghost of his business partner Marley, and sees him bound with chains. Marley tells Scrooge that his chain is even [...]

For many years, I’ve been doing string subsitution like this:

print “%s is %s” %(”thrill”,”gone”)

Which works, but can be confusing if you have a lot of subsitutions. Also, you can break the % section off from the rest of the line. So you can have a long, unreadable line in the middle of your [...]