Archive for May, 2008
A Work-around for Book Idolatry
If you’re anything like me you have a compulsive need to take notes on anything you read combined with a compulsive fear of writing in books. This has been a problem for me. Pencils are no good since the graphite eventually smudges and gets all over the place; colored pencils are better but are not [...]
Take your OS with you
Technology like this has been available to hackers in the Linux community for a long time, but it looks like the excellent people at Fedora are taking things mainstream. Imagine: your entire computer in your pocket. Looks like I have a new weekend project!
Why Open Source?
Many potential readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with the concept of “Open Source” software. There are a variety of possible definitions (depending on your preferred open source licensing schema), but what essentially qualifies software as being Open Source is the availability of its underlying source code for reading and editing. Why is that [...]
Zotero: An Introduction, now with SBL support
If you have not already downloaded Zotero, the free, open source bibliographical reference manager for Firefox, now would be a good time. It now supports the cutting edge Firefox 3, and, for all those interested in writing papers in biblical studies, there is now an extension that produces SBL-compliant citations and bibliographies.
Installation is easy enough. [...]
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This blog highlights the variety of useful resources, both new and old, that pastors, amateur theologians, and academics can use to help develop and spread their own ideas for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. (read more)
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