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Thursday May 17, 2007

Personal: I’m looking for some assistance from someone with good knowledge of PHP and from someone who has worked with Apache (and .htaccess in particular). If this is you, please hit the contact button up top and send me an email!

Humor: Summer reading.

Books: “TIME” has an excerpt from Al Gore’s upcoming book “The Assault on Reason.” The book is described as “A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason.”

People: JT links to the announcement that Dr. White has resigned as president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Quote: Tim’s daughter commenting on a startling discovery: “Whatever I eat, my burps smell like that. Really!”


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