Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve: I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my [...]
Tagged TechnologyFighting Over The New Testament: So our little slanted, incomplete, biased, and selective theologies are the best we can do. Given how our theologies are formed, it’s a constant wonder to me that people are surprised and even angered when they meet someone whose ideas about God differ from their own. I’d be more surprised [...]
Tagged Religion, TechnologyI got tired of the old design not working in Internet Explorer, so this is the new design. I’ll probably revise it more as I get some time; the spacing on a couple elements is still a little too close for comfort, but all in all I like it.
Tagged Site AdministrationW.E.D. ON WED: “The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. It will be a place for parents and children to share pleasant times in one another’s company; a place for teachers and pupils to discover greater ways of understanding and education. Here [...]
Tagged FamilyVia Real Live Preacher There is a small problem here, but it’s not with his argument, which is sound. Rather, it’s in the fact that he dismisses the question of if global warming is real. Yes, we can all be mistaken. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could be at least reasonably sure, and [...]
Tagged PoliticsThe Road to Clarity: When they stopped and turned, they were standing a couple hundred feet from the lineup below. There was the original Highway Gothic; British Transport, the road typeface used in the United Kingdom; Univers, found in the Paris Metro and on Apple computer keyboards; DIN 1451, used on road and train signage [...]
Tagged TravelGabe and Deborah had a party last week and part of it was a Iron Chef-style cooking competition with the secret ingredient of Peanut Butter. I made Ice Cream, loosely based on this recipe, but modified for size and the ingredients I had. Seth’s Award-Winning Peanut Butter Ice Cream Ingredients 3/4 can Skippy Natural Peanut [...]
Tagged Cooking, FamilyThe Non-Maximizing Maximize Button: That’s my problem with Apple’s non-maximizing maximize button. Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems, to be sure. But Apple’s method of forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization is not good user interface design. It is fundamentally and deeply flawed. Users don’t [...]
Tagged Apple, ComputingThe Gospel of Health & Wealth Moves To Africa: I once read that Christianity began as a religious movement in Judea, moved to Greece and became a philosophy, moved to Europe and became a feudalistic government, then came to America and became a business. (Via rlp’s blog.) I like that a lot. Sad, but true. [...]
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