SCO Settles Down a Bit
Thursday, 29 April 2004SCO has apparently dropped the silliest of their claims, such as that the GPL is unconstitutional. Thanks, Jason!
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John Kerry, the Catholic Church, and Abortion
Thursday, 29 April 2004According to the NY Times a few days ago, a “high-ranking Vatican cardinal” says that a Roman Catholic politician (a.k.a. John Kerry) who supports abortion “is not fit” to receive communion. Now from the way the first sentence of this story is phrased, it is not clear whether the Cardinal was condemning the support of [...]
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Blogs
Wednesday, 28 April 2004For a good long while, I was reading a number of the most popular, widely read blogs on the internet. Then, I stopped. I just got tired of the echo chamber, and of reading all the same old crap again and again. Now, the number of blogs that I read is way down, and I [...]
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Mindfulness
Sunday, 25 April 2004A variety of influences lately have pointed me towards trying to live my life more mindfully. First, this is a point hit upon repeatedly by Robert Boice in his book Advice for New Faculty Members. Boice’s approach is strictly secular, but he believes that mindfulness is necessary to the success of young faculty. He has [...]
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A Moment for Reflection
Monday, 19 April 2004Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Rememberence Day began yesterday evening and ended today. If you haven’t done anything to mark this solemn occasion, I would encourage you to do so.
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WiMax Much
Monday, 19 April 2004WiMax is getting lots of press, but the press don’t seem to really understand the differences between WiMax (a standard for wireless broadband) and the wireless LAN standard known as WiFi. Here’s a good article which sums up the main differences. It even makes a passing mention to IEEE 802.20 which is still in the [...]
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