February 13th, 2010
Back in January 2003, I read this intriguing article in World magazine, ”Scholarly legends” by Gene Edward Veith (access requires payment for non-subscribers), in which the author compares a few common errors about history to contemporary so-called “urban legends.”
I had the good sense to clip it from the magazine and file it, and just recently found it again. It deals with three specific legends that have circulated in the scholarly world and washed over into popular culture: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apologetics
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February 7th, 2010
I really enjoyed this article. It describes ways Christians can focus and control their use of technology so that it doesn’t overwhelm their spiritual lives:
New Habits for High-Tech Hearts – Online Magazine Archives – NavPress.
Tags: devotional
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February 5th, 2010
A website tipped me off to a Terminal command that lets OS X users (the geekier ones) view UNIX “man” pages* as PDFs.
However, since the command is long, it would be hard to remember and difficult to type. I wanted to make an alias (a custom UNIX command) that would be shorter, but Bash (the default terminal in OS X) does not allow aliases to accept arguments (variables), which is critical to making this work.
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Tags: hacks, UNIX
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January 31st, 2010
I read a post called iPhone Survival Guide, about how your iPhone (or iPod touch) could be useful in an emergency. It’s worth checking out.
That got me to thinking about how an iPhone (or iPod touch) could be used for nature activities in general. The iPhone has a clear advantage over the iPod touch in a couple areas: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: camping, iPhone, iPod Touch, nature, survival
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