A couple of brief stories

Dave Farquhar Christianity

I spent the past week in Belle Glade, Fla., which is a farming city near Lake Okeechobee, and a curious mix of extremes–I’ve never seen such wealth and such poverty in such close proximity.
Literally 30 minutes away, we passed a large estate with a garage in the yard, full of vintage Rolls Royces. I zipped past pretty fast but it must have been five or six.

The church we stayed at in Belle Glade was in a lower middle-class neighborhood, not unlike the community just to the north of where I live. To one direction lay a bustling commercial district. In the other direction, ghetto.
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I’m back.

Dave Farquhar General

I just had the best week of my life. I came back to find my web server down (powered off even) and Raunche and RCIV nowhere to be found. Good thing. No idea how that happened, so I’ll be interested in their explanation (and very surprised if the stories match).
Anyway, I just took a luxurious 5-minute shower (and I left the water running the whole time–naughty me). I’ve gotta make some phone calls, then I’ll post a short story about my adventure. I doubt I’ll be talking about much else this week. Like I said, it was probably the best week of my life.

Outta here.

Dave Farquhar General

I’m outta here. In just a few hours, I’ll be boarding a plane with 37 other crazy people and we’ll be touching down a few more hours later. We’ll be there a week.
Meanwhile, you can read about us at www.adventures.org.

I’ve got people keeping an eye on things around here while I’m gone. There’ll be a little new content. And of course I’m sure there’ll be comments on some of the old stuff.

I’m equally sure I’ll have lots of stories when I get back.

The reason for last night’s weirdness

Dave Farquhar General

Steve was coding last night, so if the site was acting really goofy on you for a while, that was why. Meanwhile he got a few chuckles out of some minor changes I’d made to the code myself. Now we’ve got a recent comments sidebar, which’ll help me keep up with conversations on those really old threads. That’s always a good thing…

Should I file this under ‘Christianity’ or ‘Writing?’

Dave Farquhar Writing

We had two Christian authors at church Wednesday night. I went to Tim Wesemann’s presentation. The topic was family devotions with your children. I don’t have children. I’m still glad I went, because I didn’t have family devotions growing up, and neither did anyone else I know. So I’m dealing today with people in their twenties and even in their thirties who don’t know how to pray.
It’s a good thing I learned how to pray when I was 23, so there’s someone now, four years later, who can teach them, eh?
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Introducing the Silicon Underground Portal

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Tonight, as I was preparing for my upcoming mission trip (read: doing laundry and waiting around on it), I started messing with a piece of software called bk2site.
Like most cool software, it’s included with Debian. RPMs and tarballs are available if your distro of choice lacks it. Its purpose is to take your Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon bookmarks file and a few RSS feeds of your choice and make a site out of it, much like the Yahoo! of many years ago before its size got out of hand.
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Will ZDNet ever get a clue about Linux?

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The next time ZDNet runs a story about Linux and you start feeling the urge to click on the link and read it, I’ve got a piece of advice for you.
Lie down until it goes away.

If you have a clue about Linux, the story will just make you mad. If you’re trying to learn about Linux, ZDNet will fill you up with enough misinformation to confuse you for weeks.
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