My wife couldn't quite pin down what the deal was. She calls the Blessed Virgin "Mary, the mother of our Lord." She said, obviously, that my Lord is God. Quite right. And this is what St. Elizabeth meant when she created the Virgin Mother: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of yo...

The UK's Times Online has a fascinating archive on teh establishment of Israel: Palestine for the Jews. This is historical coverage, of the sort you can get from Front Page Israel....

I spotted this on Twitter yesterday evening. Nothing like being given a new IP range to migrate to from your hosting provider, only to find out that it was previously used by a spammer! It seems that someone just learned the hard way that, in the IPv4 Internet which we all still inhabit, networks ac...

I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a discussion of technology in the district. I have to admit, having taught in the high ...

20    Syd Matters - Everything Else (Because) Rejeton surprise de Nick Drake et de Syd Barrett (nom du parrain, Robert Wyatt), le Français tresse des ballades où pop et folk se croisent pour une danse mélancolique. Jusqu'à accoucher de petits trésors, tels le dépouillé Ill Jac...

I got this dialog on Facebook today and I was completely stumped.  Totally.  I read the paragraph over and over, trying to figure out what I meant.  I read it to friends, didn’t help.  Thought about it some more.  It turns out that what I really wanted to do was both of these things.  I ...

Chris Snyder is an online journalist specializing in new media. He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com’s Epicenter blog. It’s a long road to a victory in the browser wars. Just ask Firefox. The open source browser which launched in 2004 just cracked the 20 percent threshold of the market...

It's in human nature to mention any personal connection when offering solidarity, so I shall just briefly say that on my first visit to India, in 1980, I stayed at the Taj Mahal in Bombay, visited the "Gateway of India" and took a boat to Elephanta Island, toured the magnificent railway station, had...

Circuit City has decided to close 155 stores deemed “underperforming.” I just left one such store, the Thousand Oaks location. With “20% off” prices that still weigh in at $50 more than Amazon’s regular price for a 1TB USB 2.0 hard drive, does Circuit City really find i...

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday Since it is now officially December, the first of many replayings of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stol...