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Year: 2014
No More Of This! Sermon on the binding of Isaac: June 29, 2014, St. Paul’s Church
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our creator and our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Most of us know the story of the Good Samaritan. He’s the guy who rescued a mugging victim on a wilderness road, without wondering who that victim was. Does loving our neighbor mean helping a stranger? Yes, of course. This teaching of Jesus… Read more →
Computing an initial bearing
This MySQL Stored Function computes the initial bearing — the compass heading to follow — when moving from one point to another on the surface of the earth. Here’s a web site describing this. http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html Read more →
Specialized Time-Series Storage and Retrieval
There’s a relatively new software system for storing, retrieving, and processing time series. InfluxDB Read more →
Is it a scam or a hoax?
Here’s a list of catalogs of scams and hoaxes, for your debunking pleasure. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/really-true-or-it-hoax-eight-places-find-out.htm Read more →
Using words like John McPhee
One of my favorite writers is John McPhee of Princeton, NJ. He’s written for The New Yorker since my memory of him began, and published many books with the Macmillan publishing company. He’s the good reason I preach from a manuscript rather than extemporaneously: if a phrase is worth listening to, it’s worth constructing well. There are bad reasons, like my poor memory… Read more →
Filling in missing data with sequences of cardinal integers
When you’re extracting summaries of information from a database, sometimes rows are missing. For example, if you are keeping track of number of customers by day, you might use a query like this: https://gist.github.com/OllieJones/530a243c8207fc02238e#file-1 You might get a result set like this: 2014-03-07 122 2014-03-08 355 2014-03-10 234 2014-03-11 119 Notice that the row for 2014-03-09 is missing from this… Read more →
Seven Steps to Getting your Organization Online
If you’re a local chapter of a larger organization, ask for help. Your larger organization may have some excellent services to offer. First: the perfect is the enemy of the good. Do something. Learn from it. Try something else. For the first year or two your online presence will have almost no traffic, so making mistakes won’t hurt your org.… Read more →
RiseVision’s calendar Events gadget updated to handle two weeks.
This article is obsolete. There’s a new article about the Rise Calendar Widget here. RiseVision makes a sweet little open source Events gadget. It displays the contents of your favorite public Google Calendar in a scrolling or tabbed window on your digital sign presentation. Here’s the documentation for that Events gadget. This won’t make a heck of a lot of… Read more →
New life from old computer
Do you have a 2005-onward vintage computer from which you need to squeeze a few more years of life? Here’s what you do. Use crucial.com‘s memory upgrade adviser to figure out what RAM you can buy for it, and order that memory. (If you use their adviser software and the memory you order doesn’t work, you get your money back.) When… Read more →