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Data Mining on You

You should visit Spokeo. Type in your legal name, or the one you use most online. Lots of people are getting the creeps about this. They don’t dig up the information so much as aggregate what is publicly available, mostly … Continue reading

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Greece and More: What to Expect

Vox Day has it covered well. Without dragging in the mysterious Illuminati, he explains the real conspiracy in terms of function, not labels. There exists a known coterie of wealth and power in the world who don’t love Jesus and … Continue reading

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First Brush with Lucid Lynx

This time, I chose the upgrade using the Update Manager. Naturally, due to the massive competition from thousands of others doing the same thing, it took five hours over my cable connection. That’s no big deal. The jump from 9.10 … Continue reading

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Mate Selection: The Eyes Lie

After 30+ years, I confirm today I could not have made a better choice in whom to marry. It won’t matter how you choose to measure such things; my wife is the one smartest decision I ever made. You would … Continue reading

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Customer Is Not Always Right

The other half of my complaint — too much of Open Source is so developer centric it can quickly become anti-user — is sometimes the user wants the wrong thing. But it’s not so easy to untangle this mess, since … Continue reading

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Propaganda Ambush: Accusation of Racism

Her costume was assertively African. The colors, the cut of her dress, the accouterments — in every detail it spoke loudly of her heritage. It was actually quite attractive. He sat in a folding chair on the platform, his impassive … Continue reading

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The Hermit Impulse

I empathize; I understand completely. Imagine living in a world where you see the most massive storm blowing in — so huge, it seems to take forever, creeping ever closer. You see it, feel the stiffening cold wind, smell the … Continue reading

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Not Enough Words for Love or Knowing

The English language is not logic, but art. We string together roots from different languages because it sounds better than purity of extraction. As one language historian noted, our language does not borrow words from other languages. English chases them … Continue reading

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Implications of the Decalogue: Conclusion

The Covenant of Moses was closed at the Cross. In that sense, God today holds no one accountable to the Law of Moses. We keep it around, referring to it historically, so that we may learn about His Laws in … Continue reading

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Implications of the Decalogue: Ten

You shall not covet your neighbor’s property. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s. The Hebrew word “covet” carried more weight than … Continue reading

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