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You Cannot Deny Evil Exists
Our pluralistic society didn’t like it when Bush referred to certain countries as an “Axis of Evil”. To call something “evil” means that we’re placing an absolute moral judgement on that group, and our society doesn’t like absolute morals. However, because there is no escaping the world that God made, there is no escaping moral […]
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David Prowse is My Hero
misc/dprowseI’ve mentioned before that I think George Lucas’ decision to change the Star Wars movies was one of the dumbest ideas ever, and totally destroyed the mythology of the Star Wars Universe. That being said, I wasn’t surprised when I found out that David Prowse was snubbed to reprise his role as Darth Vader, for […]
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Instant Messenger
I usually don’t blog about work too often, but I thought it was worth mentioning that Lockheed Martin rolled out the Microsoft Windows Messenger client to all our workstations this past Friday. It’s a great move, as we had been using email as an IM tool (i.e. “What are we doing for lunch?”). Some stuff […]
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Who Out There?
This is pretty cool. A blogger in London has set up a database for associating geocoordinates with websites called “GeoURL“. You can register a website, and then see who is close to you. Here is a list of the blogs registered on his site within 100 miles of us.
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Grammar Lesson
From the AP Stylebook : Affect, as a verb, means to influence: The game will affect the standings. Affect, as a noun, is best avoided. It occasionally is used in psychology to describe an emotion, but there is no need for it in everyday language. Effect, as a verb, means to cause: He will effect […]
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Gifts and Ministries in the Church
This is a post that I made to our church’s “unofficial” Yahoo! listserv. In reality, we are all part of the same body, and there is no such thing as “unofficial” – a thought which didn’t come to mind till AFTER I hit “send”. But, I think the gist is still there: Today I read […]