Glasgow Airport Attack

Saw this today. A terrorist drove a burning car into the terminal entrance at Glasgow airport. Seeing these sorts of evil acts is always sobering; to see it happen at a place your child has stood is particularly poignant.
My prayers are with ya’ll over there.

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Morning Read

Riley hopes prayer will end drought: Government calls for prayer
Siegelman sentenced

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I am root

I’m very excited, I finally managed (after 3 tries) to install gentoo linux on a hand-me-down HP Vectra:

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Random 8

I have been tagged by seekingservant for this Random 8 thing:
a) I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
b) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
c) People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these [...]

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Morning Read

China Detains 8 Church Leaders
Open a locked car with a tennis ball. 

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Presbyterian Preaching

A friend of mine is working on an indepedent study at seminary comparing Episcopal and Presbyterian sermons. As part of the course he’s asked friends (including me) from both traditions their thoughts on denominational dinstinctions in preaching. Here’s how I replied:
I’ve tried to think of what I would considered distinctive about Presbyterian preaching [...]

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CHAP. X. The Parson in his house. (Part II.)

Continuing to work through George Herbert’s The Country Parson:

Good deeds, and good breeding, are his two great stocks for his children; if God give any thing above those, and not spent in them, he blesseth God, and lays it out as he sees cause. His servants are all religious, and were it not his [...]

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Morning Read

Saw this article about saving rural America by Chuck Norris….yes that Chuck Norris!

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First Script

I had a go with a very simple Bash script this morning, it’s one step above “echo ‘Hello World’”.
I had been using a VBS script with windows to keep an ‘inbox’ list with that I had found here.   So I wanted to do the same with Bash.
If you’re familiar with GTD the idea is to [...]

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Morning Reads

These caught my attention this morning:
The Episcopal Church is driving straight for a rupture. 
 Ruth Graham has died.
and this story about how high property values are making it hard for locals to remain in rural areas in England.
Have a great weekend.
BTW: I’ll be at our General Assembly next week.

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