After much bungling (read: less bungling than average, but still too much) I've set up my PIII running a FreeBSD-backed DHCP server. I also managed to share my laptop's wireless connection and have the BSD machine use the laptop as its default gateway, so my server is (mostly) online. Only problem is, our landlord has so m...

This is Jessica's ring - click to enlarge....

I proposed to Jessica last night! It was incredibly cool--definitely the best and most exciting thing I've ever done. Jessica knew that I was working towards asking her; she thought, however, that I wasn't going to be able to ask for a few months at least. Naturally, I didn't correct that impression... OK, I admit: I encou...

So, I met the beast of which I spoke earlier earlier . It was lurking in INFO 300. Examine the assumptions we are told we must make when using Brenda Dervin's "Sense Making" model: Reality is neither complete or constant but rather filled with fundamental and pervasive discontinities or gaps . Information is not a thing th...

So, I conjured up (translation: used Google to find ) A great article ("Mathematics: Is God Silent?" - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 ) about the nature of mathematics. It is a very interesting application of the Christian presupposationalist view. Reading Cornelius Van Til has been rather helpful. Even though I haven't started...

School has finally started! I am rather glad of that; from all appearances this will be a fun quarter. My classlist looks like this: INFO 300: Intellectual Foundations of Informatics Information as an object of study, including theories, concepts, and principles of information, information seeking, cognitive processing, kn...

The Computer Science department was unable to offer me a place in their department. I'm pretty bummed about that. And of course, as I read the email, Bob Dylan's Buckets of Rain is going on in the background with these lines: Life is sad Life is a bust All ya can do is do what you must. You do what you must do and ya do it...