Monthly Archives: January 2008

Inkscape 0.46

Yester­day, I tried out the new ver­sion of Inkscape: 0.46. It’s not offi­cially released yet; it’s still in beta. It’s got a lot of cool new fea­tures, include a 3D tool, a paint­bucket and what they call a ‘node scu­plt­ing tool’, which basi­cally let’s you push beizer path nodes around. The killer fea­ture I was look­ing [...]
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Print Sharing on Linux

Last night, I moved my printer from the desk­top com­puter to my home server so we could print with­out the desk­top being on. The server is run­ning Ubuntu 6.10…or is it 6.06? What­ever the last LTS ver­sion was. In any case, shar­ing print­ers on that ver­sion is supris­ingly difficult. You have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf. Don’t ask [...]
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Date Your Web Page

I remem­ber a few years ago, read­ing a w3c rec­om­men­da­tion that you date your page. This was before blogs were big. The only peo­ple dat­ing their web­pages back then were the same peo­ple who refused to for­mat their pages. They’d date their white, bor­ing look­ing pages at the bot­tom with a date in ital­ics, most [...]
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N.T. Wright and Anne Rice

Ok, one more pod­cast link before I go to bed: Here’s N.T. Wright AND Anne Rice together. The title is “Writ­ing Our Way to God.” But the descrip­tion says, “Together these two extra­or­di­nary writ­ers will explore the mys­tery of the iden­tity of God and our inter­con­nect­ed­ness with Cre­ation. This Forum brings together two con­tem­po­rary writ­ers who [...]
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Nick and Josh Archives — Good Stuff

Wow. Here’s the Nick and Josh Pod­cast archives. It looks to me like there’s a lot of good stuff in there. Here’s some high­lights (I’m not link­ing to each one, just fol­low the pre­vi­ous link and search–you’re a big boy): Doug Pagitt Tony Jones Brian McLaren (twice) Derek Webb Plenty of Cor­po­rate Responsiblity Bishop John Shelby [...]
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Corporate Responsibility Podcasts

I men­tioned that Brian McLaren was inter­viewed on the Nick and Josh pod­cast in m pre­vi­ous post. What I may not have men­tioned was that Nick and Josh have done a series of pod­casts about cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­ity. I’m not entirely sure what they mean by that, or if the pod­casts are any good. That said, I’m defi­nately [...]
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Brian McLaren Interview

Today, I lis­tened to Brian McLaren on the Nick and Josh Pod­cast. He was talk­ing about his new book, which I’m read­ing: Every­thing Must Change. Here’s the quick overview: What are the world’s biggest prob­lems? What does Jesus have to say about them? Trans­la­tion: we ought to be work­ing to elim­i­nate poverty and injustice. As [...]
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Barack Obama Interviewed by Christianity Today

Here’s an inter­view of Barak Obama by Chris­tian­ity Today. I’ve ripped on Obama before because I’ve felt like he’s just tried to use evan­gel­i­cal lan­guage as a polit­i­cal tool. But, I’ve got to say, he does a really good job in this inter­view. His response to the abor­tion question? I don’t know any­body who is pro-abortion. I [...]
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Paying Artists

Here’s an inter­est­ing page about ways that (musi­cal) artists can get paid with­out fight­ing file-sharing. The most inter­est­ing part of arti­cle, in light of my pre­vi­ous post about CCLI, is that one of the sug­ges­tions they make is basi­cally what CCLI does: sim­plfy the licens­ing process and col­lect money for it (see the sec­tion on [...]
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The Postmodern Church and Copyright

Today, I was on the CCLI home­page. These are the guys who enforce copy­right for wor­ship music. Or they pro­vide a way for you not to break copy­right laws at your church? I’m not sure how it all works, legally. In any case, they’ve got a rotat­ing flash ban­ner on the home­page that has pic­tures of [...]
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