Monthly Archives: December 2007

Extreme Faith: Jnthn Responds

Jnthn responded to my post about extreme faith, about whether or not we should be striv­ing to be knights of faith. He says that we all want to Abra­ham (or in his exam­ple, Moses), but that the over­whelm­ing major­ity of us never are, and that SK is react­ing ” to a inclu­sion­ary Chris­ten­dom which has all [...]
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Extreme Faith

jnthn posted a com­ment about my recent Kierkegaard post, that really hits what I was wrestling with in the last para­graph over the head. Let me sum up with much abbre­vi­ated quote for those of you too lazy to click. He says, “Am I cor­rect in this: SK believes that such extreme faith occured only for [...]
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Kierkegaard and An Answer to Jonathan’s Question

A long time ago, I promised an answer to Jonathan’s ques­tion: “What your Isaac?” At the same time, jnthn and Wick had a dis­cus­sion in the com­ments about the sub­ject, with jnthn argu­ing that sac­ri­fic­ing Isaac is so out of the realm of what we would con­sider eth­i­cal that to ask what our Isaac is, is [...]
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Christian Music

Brent posted about Chris­t­ian music. He said a lot of good things, includ­ing, “There is a deep prob­lem when I can buy [in a Chris­t­ian store] an artist who denies the Trin­ity but not Bob Dylan’s tril­ogy of Slow Train Com­ing, Saved and Shot of Love,” and before that, “But one of the main issues [...]
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.Bat file to zip up folders and email them out

Once a week, I write between 3 and 25 let­ters. So that our sales folks know what’s going on, I send them a zip file with every let­ter that goes to their ter­ri­tory each week. I used to spend a lot of time right-clicking on each sales person’s folder, telling it to zip up, then [...]
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Security Expert on Wireless Networking

I guess Bruce Schneier is a com­puter secu­rity expert. I wouldn’t know, but that’s what they tell me. He had a Q&A/interview on Frekonomics.com a while ago. And as it turns out, he feels the same way I do about lock­ing down your wire­less network: “Q: Is there any ben­e­fit to pass­word pro­tect­ing your home Wifi [...]
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Using wget to mirror pages

I just used wget to mir­ror a cou­ple pages before I deleted them. Now, despite the fact that my work host doesn’t give me FTP access, I at least have a non-dynamic backup of the page. I had to drop the .exe into my system32 folder, then call it from the com­mand line as: wget http://decaturradar.com/products/profile.php@id=87 -pk [...]
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For Your Information

Just so you know: “Techno music com­pos­ing made easy, with a free techno music maker: This is very true. But you must always remem­ber one thing. The musi­cian and the music maker are one of the same things, the util­ity is there to express your ideas, noth­ing more.” I’m not sure what this means. But I think [...]
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