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Monthly Archives: December 2005
New Plugin; Now I Can Upgrade to WordPress 2.0
December 31, 2005 – 12:21 am
Uploading is the main reason I haven’t yet upgraded this blog to the recently-released WordPress 2.0. Older versions of WordPress let you choose the directory for your uploads and what size to make thumbnails of your uploaded images. WordPress 2.0 took away those options, options I’m not ready to give up.
My new plugin, [...]
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2005 – 7:13 am
Merry Christmas, everybody!
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they [...]
Google’s Signs of the Times
December 20, 2005 – 6:52 pm
Google has published just a handful of some of the most popular search terms of 2005. As you can see in the graph, when Google charts the popularity of the search phrase “the force” and the “dark side” over the year, “the force” wins overall. I suppose we can take that as good [...]
Wikipedia Fares Well Against Britannica
December 14, 2005 – 5:30 pm
Wikipedia fared better than I thought it would when Nature asked scientists to evaluate articles from both Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica. (HT: digg)
Nature took stories from Wikipedia and Britannica on 42 science-related topics and submitted them to experts for review. The experts were not told which encyclopedia the stories were from. “The exercise revealed [...]
UC, BJU, and the Culture Wars
December 14, 2005 – 4:04 pm
The Economist situates within the culture wars the pending lawsuit against the University of California, in which the plaintiffs accuse the UC admissions officials of discriminating against Christian high school graduates who took courses taught from textbooks published by Bob Jones University.
Welcome to the latest front in America’s culture wars. The Association of Christian [...]
Use Gmail’s Accounts Feature? Your Private Email is Showing
December 12, 2005 – 2:13 pm
Gmail’s “Accounts” feature lets you send emails from different addresses. I’ve been using it to send emails from my work email address, and emails sent to my work address forward automatically to my Gmail account. That means I can organize, send, and receive all my emails from one central location, without giving away [...]