I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to the importance or relative unimportance of word processors. I learned how to process words with a pencil. Nowadays word processing has come to mean more than writing, but is it?
Archive for June, 2007
Word processors
Posted in Education, Open Office, Web 2.0, wikis, tagged Open Source on June 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
St. Irenaeus
Posted in Christianity, Mt. Irenaeus, mystic, tagged contemplative, Franciscan, Spirituality on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, June 28 was the feast of St. Irenaeus. Irenaeus has come to have a lot of meaning for me. I am a member of the Mt. Irenaeus community and regularly attend Mass there. I’m also a member of the St. Irenaeus Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order. This week I also came to realize [...]
Impeach Cheney
Posted in Congress, President Bush, Senate, tagged Politics on June 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’m impressed with what Bruce Fein, a Reagan era associate deputy attorney general has written in a piece which appears on Slate today.
Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III.
Read more here. I don’t think much is going to happen to [...]
Mythical
Posted in Linux, MythTV, Ubuntu, k-12, tagged Open Source, Workplace on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
MythTV is one of those open source applications that up until now was only someone else’s experience. Last summer I tried to build a KnoppMyth box. That experience led me to follow someone else’s experience in better detail.
Horsing around
Posted in Google, recreation on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I spent part of my afternoon filming this short piece for a friend of mine. He is the owner of a team of horses pictured in the video and of the buggy they are pulling. It was a very warm day, but the horses seemed up to it and their owner was grateful that I [...]
Tonight
Posted in Linux, MythTV, Ubuntu, k-12, mindfulness, mystic, tagged contemplative, Open Source, Philosophy, Spirituality, Workplace on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a beautiful moonlit night. A few twinkling stars. Venus has risen in the western sky and its 72F at 10 pm. It doesn’t get much better in Western New York than that. I’m enjoying it.
Not doing
Posted in Christianity, Mt. Irenaeus, Peace, St. Bonaventure University, mindfulness, mystic, tagged contemplative, Franciscan, Philosophy, Spirituality, Workplace on June 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My day began with Mass at Mt. Irenaeus. While there I met a young man whom I had previously met via the blogosphere. Another positive impact of blogging and reading bloggers in my life.
