Monthly Archives: February 2008

N.T. Wright Remixed — Good Stuff

February 29, 2008 | Leave a comment
N.T. Wright is a chal­leng­ing dude. I down­loaded this Q&A with N.T. Wright at Empire Remixed in Toronto in 2006. It’s phe­nom­e­nal. To be com­pletely hon­est, I haven’t been reminded in a while of just how great the chal­lenge of fol­low­ing Jesus is. But this did it. The audio opens with him singing ‘Blow­ing in The Wind,’ [...]
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Peter Bjorn and John Rule

February 29, 2008 | Leave a comment
I got a Peter Bjorn and John cd out of the library, Writer’s Block, kind on a whim. I’d heard of them before, but didn’t really know any­thing about them. It’s phe­nom­e­nal, really cool indie rock the way it’s sup­posed to be–a bit weird but very lis­ten­able at the same time. More unique and cre­ative than weird.
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Discussion on the Kingdom of God

February 28, 2008 | Leave a comment
A few days ago, my brother (who just became the father of twins!) emailed me in response to my (ini­tially neg­a­tive) review of McLaren’s Every­thing Must Change. He took issue with McLaren’s king­dom the­ol­ogy, say­ing, “McLaren seems to define the King­dom of God accord­ing to his own def­i­n­i­tion, which I don’t fully under­stand, but which [...]
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More on Importing to WordPress

February 28, 2008 | Leave a comment
For rea­sons unknown, my tran­sis­tion to Word­Press seems to have stalled. Import­ing was tak­ing a long time–each time I’d hit the ‘import’ but­ton, it’d grab about 150 of my 1200 entries in about 2 min­utes and then I’d have to hit it again.. So I’ve been hit­ting it, on and off, for about two days [...]
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A Journey into Dave Barry’s Colon

February 27, 2008 | Leave a comment
Dang, Dave Barry is funny. (thanks to Tony Jones for the link).
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From Opera to FireFox: Speed Dial

February 27, 2008 | Leave a comment
In ver­sion 9, Opera released a new fea­ture: Speed Dial. This ruled and switched the way I used Opera. I used to book­mark sites and add a nick­name. Then I would hit ctrl+F2 and begin typ­ing the nick­name in the dia­log. As soon as Opera found a unique match, it would open the bookmark. That’s a [...]
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How the NCSA Eats Breakfast

February 27, 2008 | Leave a comment
That’s how they roll.
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My First Open Source Contribution

February 26, 2008 | Leave a comment
I just made my first open source contribution. At work, I’m using Open Flash Charts to do some inter­nal report­ing (since it’s all inter­nal reports, I can’t give you a link, unfortunately). One of the things I needed to do was to gen­er­ate trend­lines, which are lin­ear regres­sions. How­ever, the php func­tion I found to [...]
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And Now for Some Bad Advice about Typography

February 26, 2008 | Leave a comment
There’s plenty of good infor­ma­tion about typog­ra­phy out there. Unfor­tu­nately, this list of 10 tragic type­faces is quite pos­si­bly the least infor­ma­tive arti­cle of all time. Let me sum it up for you: If you use a font that any­body else used, you suck. If the font is a default any­where and you use it, you suck. I [...]
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Useful Typographic Information

February 26, 2008 | Leave a comment
Remem­ber I said there was good infor­ma­tion about typog­ra­phy on the web? I wasn’t lying. Here’s some well-explained, clearly illus­trated tips on bet­ter typog­ra­phy, sug­ges­tions about how to adjust your lead­ing (line spac­ing) based on para­graph width, what to do when you inverse your col­ors, etc. Good stuff here.
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