Testing WordPress for Android

by acavender on February 5, 2010 · 1 comment

in Tech

This is just a test of mobile posting.

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Hanging on to useful information

by acavender on November 5, 2009 · 0 comments

in ProfHacker

I don’t have anything of interest to write about at the moment, but thought I’d provide a link to my most recent ProfHacker post: The importance of good record-keeping: What to keep.

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Being right and getting along

by acavender October 12, 2009 Commentary

Leonard Pitts raises an interesting point in this op-ed piece about the Mojave Desert war memorial cross.
Is there a time and a place to back away from principle for the sake of getting along? Would the assessment be different if the cross in question were in a much more prominent location?

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For those who may be wondering

by acavender September 25, 2009 Personal

No, I haven’t died, nor have I abandoned this blog.
It’s just that I’ve been snowed under of late: I’ve been trying to keep up with the start of the new semester, in addition to getting my dossier together for fourth-year review and working on a few new projects.
One of those new projects is a group [...]

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The President’s speech to schoolchildren

by acavender September 8, 2009 Commentary

Now that I’ve read the text, I have to admit I’m baffled as to why anyone would find this speech problematic. If this speech amounts to indoctrination, it’s indoctrination of precisely the sort I’d think we’d want: indoctrination that promotes hard work and responsibility. Those are virtues we want our children to have, right?
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Using WordPress and DevonThink together

by acavender August 12, 2009 ProfHacker

One of the things I’ve been trying to do of late is get into the habit of doing more regular writing. I have no illusions that I’ll keep much of what I write, but I find that writing something on a regular basis, even if it’s dreck, helps to keep the ideas flowing.
And even if [...]

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Rage as a barrier to dialogue

by acavender July 16, 2009 Commentary

Rod Dreher has a good reflection here on the “politics of rage.”
Neither the tendency to attribute bad motives to one’s opponents, nor the insistence on using inflammatory language to express one’s own point of view, is likely to accomplish much (other, perhaps, than letting us vent).

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A sure sign of spring

by acavender April 26, 2009 Digital photography

This little lady is nesting in the pine tree outside our front door. To judge by the look in her eye, she’s not too sure about me (and yes, I had to set my camera’s zoom as high as it would go in order to get this photo).

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On President Obama and Notre Dame

by acavender April 20, 2009 Commentary

I’ve deliberately avoided commenting on this issue, because it’s so volatile, and I know good people on both sides of the debate.
The only comment I’ll weigh in with is that the tone of much of the public discourse on the issue leaves a great deal to be desired, and we’d all do well to consider [...]

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On anger and the net

by acavender February 27, 2008 Faith

Rachel Barenblat has a great post titled “Praying my anger away” over at the Velveteen Rabbi this morning.
For those of us who spend a lot of time online, anger’s often a temptation. Rachel has some great thoughts on how it can affect us and how to respond, as well as an interesting note about things [...]

Tagged as: Judaism, Spirituality

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