Time Weighing Heavy on Your Hands?
Simpsons’ fan? You could spend many a happy hour … er moment … with the map of Springfield
1 comment October 17th, 2006
Archive for October, 2006
Roses and Fragility
There was a spell in my prayer a good while ago when Jesus gave me roses. I was drawn over and over to an image of a red rose and my spiritual director helped me stay with that simple experience and trust it. She suggested I let Jesus buy me one. So I did. And sat in my prayer for days just looking and smelling and relishing the God who gave me roses.
Many times after that I’d get the sense of Jesus saying, ‘time for a new rose’, and out I would go to get one. I still have most of those roses, dried, in a bowl in my room. A few years ago in a rather maudlin mood I was praying, holding one of those rosebuds–by then very dark and very crisp and a little dusty–and thinking of how fragile it was and how fragile many things in life can be. But then I caught the edge of its scent. Even after 10 years my roses still carried their fragrance. And I could sense Jesus saying to me, ‘they might be fragile but look, here they are–lasting, beautiful, constant’. They still are.
5 comments October 16th, 2006
Similar Posts: Version 1.03
I’ve uploaded a new version of Similar Posts. It allows you to exclude static pages from the list of similar posts and also to exclude posts based on their category (thanks to commenter Upekshapriya for the suggestion).
There is also a better list of stopwords based on the one MySQL uses for the full text search.
Add comment October 16th, 2006
Oops
I’ve been trying out a download tracking plugin. Most of the time it has worked fine but intermittently there have been scrambled downloads. My apologies to anyone served gibberish. I’ve reverted to plain untracked downloads for now.
1 comment October 15th, 2006
Apologies
I’m sorry if anyone came visiting in the last 12 hours or so and found a bunch of gobbledygook in place of this site. My host was ‘having a database outage’. Service has been resumed and seems normal but a little slow. Let’s hope it settles.
Add comment October 9th, 2006
11 Years Old Today — Well Almost
Quite by chance (I was fiddling with the archive page) I noticed that the first post on this site is dated exactly 11 days ago today. I’ve never really thought about how long I’ve been posting stuff on the web in one form or another. I started with some components for the Delphi programming language. The homilies were added later so even though the oldest was preached eleven years ago I couldn’t say when it actually got posted.
1 comment October 8th, 2006
Similar Posts: Version 1.02
I have updated the Similar Posts plugin for WordPress to Version 1.02. There is no extra functionality but users should upgrade for stability reasons. Version 1,02 protects against a vulnerability where stray characters in the matching terms could cause database errors. This update also fixes a potential naming conflict between the internal names of its options and those of other plugins.
Add comment October 8th, 2006
Friday Week 26 Year II
Readings: Job 38:1, 12-21, 40:3-5; Luke 10:13-16
We get a rare glimpse of a family likeness today: Father and Son both letting off steam, both sounding provoked beyond endurance, both ticked off. And both complaining that we continue to be wilfully blind to the plain and glorious truth under our noses.
I love Job, the man, the book. He won’t let up his demand for explanation. And it won’t give up any answer to Job’s predicament. What we do get—which finally silences Job—is this tirade from the tempest’s heart. Who are you? Can you not see? Do you not know? Will you not wonder?
3 comments October 6th, 2006
Similar Posts: Update
I have updated the Similar Posts plugin for WordPress to Version 1.01. It restores the capacity to use keywords in addition to the default matching terms and it lets users of Related Posts import any keywords they have already assigned.
2 comments October 5th, 2006
What Passes For Humour Among Philosophers
I came across something to start my day with a laugh (or at least a wry smile) as I browsed the various feeds I’m subscribed to. Unfortunately I can’t give credit to the referrer since I’ve forgotten who it was. (I know … only an hour or two ago but that’s a problem of ME/CFS).
So what amused me? A list of how various philosophical terms are understood inside and outside the profession. I really do need to get a life!
3 comments October 4th, 2006