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… but I didn’t imagine it would happen so soon.

BBC and CERT have been advising people not to use Internet Explorer, but now even Slate (which, BTW, is owned by Microsoft) is telling people it’s time to switch to a decent browser.

It’s nice to see that people won’t put up with crap. For a long time I’ve had little faith in the intelligence of the general computing population for all that people just unhesitatingly accept, but it looks like people are finally starting to wake up. And it’s not hard to see why: Microsoft is recommending that people simply disable Javascript because it has too many security issues! Well, no thanks; some sites require Javascript. If you can’t deliver, we’ll go to someone who can.

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“Count Roland smites upon the marble stone;
I cannot tell you how he hewed it and smote;
Yet the blade breaks not nor splinters, though it groans;
Upward to heaven it rebounds from the blow.
When the count sees it never will be broke,
Then to himself right softly he makes moan;
‘Ah, Durendal, fair, hallowed, and devote,
What store of relics lies in thy hilt of gold!’”

-From The Song of Roland
(Translated by Dorothy Sayers, Viking Penguin, NY, NY, 1957)

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People can’t spell. Then again, these people are probably a subset googlers on the lower end of the spectrum, considering what they are interested in.

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Everything you’ve heard is true….

Peet’s coffee: coffee so strong, it smells like fish. Helpful for those late night read-a-thons. Can ya dig it?

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The new Firefox has arrived. I’m already starting to get hits from Firefox version 0.9 in my logs, and I’ve started to play with it myself. If you aren’t using Firefox 0.9 yet, you need to get it (unless you’ve got Safari). The performance increase over the last Firefox is really noticeable on my machine (and the improvements over Internet Explorer are just astronomical….) When 1.0 is released this summer, there will no longer be an excuse to use IE. (Ignorance doesn’t count.)

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“Ian! Hey Ian!

Oh, sorry. We thought you were our friend until we mooned you.
You got any weed?”

You have to be careful walking around Berkeley at night…
There’s no telling who you’ll run into.

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The first two chapters of A Severe Mercy alone are enough to evoke in me what Lewis described just yesterday as Joy. (How interesting it is that Eros emerges, not merely for my Beloved, but for the story of Lover and Beloved! Even when told in a pagan love…. But I digress.) At first glance I despair—how can I live up to such passion and devotion? Then I remember my distinct advantage: theirs began as a pagan love, while ours is baptized from the beginning.

Still, I feel as if it should make much more of a difference than it has so far.

That’s it, I suppose. Yes, the challenge is not merely how to emulate Van and Davy. It’s how to do them one better! The Shining Barrier is strong—immensely strong—but it must be breached by the Cross for the love to be perfected. How much better if something else is set up—something that furthers the Cause instead of having to eventually yield to it.

Yes, that’s the challenge; I’m certain of it. But as to how…. well I am still bewildered. I would joy over their pagan love, yet I believe something much greater is awaiting me. Christ show His grace to me: I shall search.

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I realized some of you may be wondering how my time up here in Berkeley is going, and I really haven’t been mentioning much of it apart from general observations on the reading and praises to Moe’s books.

Well, for the curious, here is the reading list:

• Epistle to the Ephesians by St. Paul
• The Life of St. Antony by St. Athanasius
• The Dumb Ox: St. Thomas Aquinas by Chesterton
• St. Francis Assisi by Chesterton
• The Right Questions by Phil Johnson
• Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis
• Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
• A Severe Mercy by Vanauken
• The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare
• Through the Gates of Splendour by Elisabeth Elliot
• The Life and Letters of Henry Martyn by John Sergeant
• Epistle to the Ephensians by St. Paul

Like I said, I haven’t really been mentioning much of it. Now, if you really want to follow closely with the events, Joel Watson’s blog is quite informative—he likes to go over things in much greater detail than I. So the events he describes are mostly what is happening to me, though the interpretation of said events I may not necessarily share.

The uninterested may keep reading on this blog. I tend to really only mention the things that really strike me or stand out.

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