Monthly Archives: November 2005

Here’s the Problem with the Times

In tomorrow’s New York Times, there’s an exposé of sorts of the dangerous high school curricula published by Bob Jones University, my alma mater. The occasion is a lawsuit against the University of California that’s been meandering into the national news over the last few weeks. The plaintiffs accuse the UC admissions officials [...]

New WordPress Plugin

I’ve come up with a lightweight WordPress plugin that might be helpful for those who want to use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). I’ve called it “Home-Page Control” because it allows you to set one of your pages as the home page for your site and to put the “blog” part [...]

Brookline’s 300th Anniversary

I live about a block away from the border of Brookline, which just celebrated its 300th anniversary Sunday evening. When I first heard the fireworks, I thought maybe we were getting shelled by Connecticut. Apparently they were something to behold, too: “It’s a good thing to have,” Linda Barnes said. “You pay [...]

Sink or Swim?

I see CNN.com reports that Senator Dianne Feinstein met with Samuel Alito to discuss his judicial philosophy: Feinstein said she believed Alito was sincere. She said they discussed Row v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion . . . Yeah, Row versus Wade. A couple of times I’ve actually had to make that decision in a [...]

TurboDBAdmin

I don’t necessary start salivating just because someone says “Ajax,” but I’ve installed a handy database tool featured on digg.com called TurboDbAdmin. True, it doesn’t have the features of PHPMyAdmin, but for manipulating data, it’s much more convenient.

il feto del filosofo

Even though my wife’s only eight weeks into the pregnancy and the kid’s just two centimeters long, today we could see fingers, a heartbeat (at 167 beats a minute), and the occasional wiggle.