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While I have nothing against Bible reading plans, I recently came across one that I thought was neat: New Testament in 30 days. I think the motivation behind this is great – you will quickly familiarize yourself with the content of the New Testament and hopefully be a godlier at the end. Read more

I have recently had some problems with my webhosting company, BlueHost. I couldn’t access some of the features in my admin panel so I inquired about it and was told that it was because my account was throttling. What that means is that I was using too much of their computer resources. This happens when too many people try to visit your site at one given time, or if you database is too large and it then takes forever to perform a query on it. The latter was my case. But it got me thinking. Read more

I find that our baby son reacts to things with a very high level predictability. He sometimes reminds me of a computer program. So I thought I would write a simple baby program to illustrate what I mean. Read more

… where you only say ‘cheers’ when drinking alcohol
… where when I talk about my ‘pants’ people don’t look at me funny
… where purse is what a woman will wear over her shoulder
… where people drive on the right side of the road
… where it doesn’t rain 300 days a year
… where I can be myself…

My web browser is finally available for download. This is a small project to show off some of my coding skills. This browser doesn’t of course measure up to the likes of Firefox or Chrome, but it does the job. It’s definitely better than Internet Explorer which is the main thing. At this point, there is unfortunately no support for Adobe Flash Player. Read more

My son, Wyatt, has a Linux baby bathtub.

I often tell people that Linux is a very efficient platform in terms of how much of your system’s resources it uses to perform any given task. In an earlier post, I described my experience with Windows Vista. Now I have discovered a new phenomenon. Read more

I’m an Ubuntu user and take lots of pictures (especially of my newborn son). I often find myself deleting pictures that are out of focus, too dark, etc. Then what happens is that I’m left with images that are out of sequence. Read more