http://blog.whatisman.com What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalms 8:4 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my cherished childhood authors is George MacDonald. My parents read many of his books to me, including The Princess and the Goblins and its sequel, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, and Sir Gibbie. George MacDonald was a 19th century Scottish minister and ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2010/07/12/george-macdonalds-over-emphasis-on-love/ I use Gmail to manage my primary domain. It doesn't host a webpage, but I use it for e-mail. Google Apps allows me to use Gmail's slick interface with that domain name. For example, I can enter “mail.whatisman.com” into a browser and it logs me into a Gmail app. ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2010/04/24/affixa-links-gmail-to-system-default-mail-app/ Got an interesting email today: I asked this friend, “Did you write the above message? Your name is on it, so it's a reasonable inference that you wrote it. How can you prove to me you wrote it, though? You can compile external evidence: Where you ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2010/04/14/creationist-logic-eveolutionary-logic/ I read an interesting quote by Adam Savage, of Mythbuster’s fame. He said the following in a Popular Mechanics podcast: Like I said, the newspapers talking about evolution versus creationism is very much an attack on science as a type of religion—believing that the scientific ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2010/02/20/can-science-tell-truth/ During research a for a project I’m working on, I ran across the blog of a woman who had recently become an atheist. Her joy at this recent “conversion” illustrates in crystal clarity the true philosophy of atheism. I finally and irrevocably cast out the ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2010/02/10/the-pleasures-of-atheism/ I’ve got Windows 7 Pro on my older desktop PC. It installed with only one hitch. The Linksys WMP54G PCI wireless network adaptor doesn’t work on 64bit Windows 7, at least not using the drivers on the Linksys website. I hooked up my Verizon MiFi card, waited for the drivers ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2009/10/27/windows-7-upgrades/ On Wednesday Wired magazine published an article about the World Science Festival. The article highlighted an appearance by string theory expert Brian Greene and entertainer Alan Alda. In the interview, Alda said the following: One of the things I like with science is that it’s based ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2009/06/12/evidence-against-bird-to-dinosaur-evolution/ My brother Nathan, who is both a redneck and a very clever person, told me this joke: A redneck from Georgia walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Bakersfield on business ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2009/04/19/redneck-car-loan-joke/ Yesterday mom called me to look at her computer. At first it seemed like an easy fix. A window kept popping up on the screen at random intervals. I figured it was a stuck key. After checking up on the internet I found out that the particular window popping up, ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2009/04/17/wierd-infrared-computer-problem-lenovo/ I was trying to figure out how to embed flash video on my blog and I got sidetracked while trying to convert YouTube clips… I needed software that would download flash from YouTube, let me cut it, and then export it as either flash (.flv) or other formats, like .avi ... http://blog.whatisman.com/2009/04/13/download-and-convert-youtube-flash-and-other-formats/