We Are All One

August 19, 2011

Approx­i­mately 4.5 bil­lion years ago, life emerged on Earth. Sin­gle cells begat sin­gle cells, evo­lu­tion cre­at­ing a vari­ety of bac­te­ria and other micro­bial organ­isms. Over time, mul­ti­cel­lu­lar organ­isms showed up, and to make a very long story short, even­tu­ally (rather recently), mankind as we know it today emerged. It hum­bles me to think about this […]

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OS X Lion">How to Set Up OpenDNS on OS X Lion

August 14, 2011

OpenDNS is one of my favorite online ser­vices; when­ever i set up a new com­puter or a new net­work, it’s one of the first things i set up. I encour­age folks to use it as well, and i want to show you how to set it up on Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion. OpenDNS is […]

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Why I’m Getting Bored of the Internet

July 12, 2011

I need a vaca­tion. From the Inter­net. It’s just too much with which to keep up, and I find myself pin­ing for a sim­pler era, wherein one’s online iden­tity cul­mi­nated in a per­sonal home­page. I cut my teeth on those per­sonal home­pages. I didn’t worry about SEO, nor did I really need to. I didn’t […]

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How to Keep Your Visitors on Your Site Longer by Opening Commenter Links in New Windows

June 27, 2011

How many users leave your site by fol­low­ing the com­ment author links in your com­ment streams? The answer will no doubt vary greatly site to site, but if your users are leav­ing your site pre­ma­turely and for­get­ting to come back, then you need to stop that. And it’s easy to do! Sim­ply open your The­sis custom_functions.php, and […]

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Better without Me

June 23, 2011

I stopped blog­ging here back in Sep­tem­ber. Evi­dently, this ol’ blog does bet­ter unat­tended than it does with me around muck­ing about:

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A Return to Form

June 22, 2011

Two-hundred eighty-six days ago, I declared that I’m a pagan, specif­i­cally an adher­ent to a non-Abrahamic reli­gion. I’ve since come to the real­iza­tion that I no longer have any super­nat­ural beliefs or hangups. Over the course of my life, I’ve believed in and zeal­ously stud­ied every­thing from para­psy­chol­ogy to ufol­ogy, mythol­ogy to Chris­tian­ity. Unex­pect­edly, I’ve […]

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I Am Pagan

September 10, 2010

For the pur­poses of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, due to no longer refer­ring to myself as Chris­t­ian, you may refer to me as a pagan (def­i­n­i­tion 3.b at Answers.com, if you’re curi­ous as to what I mean by that). I can’t really give you any specifics at the moment because I don’t have them to give. Have a […]

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Life Is Change

September 8, 2010

Life is change. When I was a young­ster in kinder­garten, I wanted to grow up to be a pizza maker (a dream inspired by my father, who has man­aged or owned sev­eral Domino’s Pizza loca­tions).* A few years later, I wanted to become a nat­u­ral­ist (or even an ento­mol­o­gist), and read count­less books on nature… […]

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Bless Those Who Persecute You

August 25, 2010

I know there are many min­istries out there that seek to take care of the per­se­cuted Chris­tians abroad, but I won­der, are there any out there who encour­age, enable, and even par­tic­i­pate in bless­ing & lov­ing those who are doing the per­se­cu­tion? They kill a Chris­t­ian… we build them a clean water well. I wonder […]

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Tithing under the Gospel

August 24, 2010

Malachi 3:8–12 promises a curse upon those who fail to tithe. To preach the tithe to Chris­tians today is to preach the pos­si­bil­ity that even after all of their sins are wiped and all of Christ’s right­eous­ness is imputed to their account, they can some­how still be accursed because of their fail­ure to tithe. So […]

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