While I’m out of town, I figured I’d give you readers some food for thought, and here’s the question of the day: is Christian preaching primarily the transmission of content that happens to involve rhetorical performance, or is it primarily performance that might or might not have content?
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Jess, if you’re reading, I know it’s too [...]
Well, my Ubuntu 8.4 disk doesn’t have the driver for the new laptop’s wireless card, and I’ve now burned three .iso disks, and none seems to want to install Ubuntu on the new computer. (I got a new laptop for Christmas, BTW.) So it looks like I’ll be using Vista for a couple [...]
I’m now almost a full week into using my new machine, and I never realized how much the dual-boot thing slowed it before.? Now it boots before I can get my notebooks out, updates fast, brings websites into full view about twice as fast as before, and opens Amarok, Open Office, and other programs much [...]
After a day’s worth of installations, upgrades, and other such things, I ended yesterday with a fully functional, last-me-another-three-years Ubuntu laptop.
Then I woke up this morning.
I tried logging on, to no avail.? Said my password was invalid.
I tried again.
And again.
And so, after another hour and a half of re-installation, I’ve got my computer up and [...]
Actually, nothing so dramatic happened. My 2005, low-end laptop was running out of hard disk space, and so, after asking Mary’s permission and waiting until we got back from Johnson City (she needed to work on a paper there), I reformatted the hard drive and re-installed Ubuntu as the sole operating system. I was [...]
I fiddled around with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a bit yesterday, and it’s got everything that I use on Photoshop. Once again, it’s amazing how a global community of geeks with vaguely socialistic leanings can design programs as good as or better than their expensive counterparts. I have been OpenOffice.org instead of [...]
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