A new hymnal — or at least ready-to-reprint hymns — is one of the pre-conditions (among many) I see for Unitarian and Universalist Christians growing new churches. Singing the Living Tradition doesn’t have the corpus of hymns needed for a rounded Christian life, other denominational hymns often have their own limitations and besides — as [...]
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The best PDFs in review
I recently backed up my home computer, reinstalled Ubuntu Linux and decided the terabyte-sized external hard drive was a must. (I recall my younger self backing up with floppy disks. A quick calculation suggests it would take 7510 pounds of those old disks for my current data. And I’m nowhere close to using up that [...]
UU Linux Users Group?
Are there any other Unitarian Universalists interested in forming an online Linux Users Group? The goal could include encouraging principled Linux use among Unitarian Universalists and discovering Linux-based solutions for religious institutions.
If you’re interested please contact me.
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Bible for Android?
No, I’m not preparing for a robotic mission. But after years of rejecting having a cell phone, I gave in — and did so with an Android phone. (After reading how a significant plurality of homeless persons have a cell phone, and how it is a leading entry-point for Internet technologies for persons in developing [...]
GNUCash for a nonprofit organization?
Have you successfully used the free and open-source software GNUCash to run the finances of a nonprofit organization, like a church?
Not so great a blog entry, but I’m hoping to attract the attention of someone who has done such a thing.
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PDF scanning the booklet
Notes from my scanning workflow from yesterday.
I’ve had my Epson Perfection 3490 Photo scanner for years — a gift from Hubby, Christmas 2003 or 2004, I think — but it never played happily with whatever Linux set-up I had at the time. But there’s a maxim that Linux distributions (editions) work better with older equipment, [...]
Ping to the Lord a GNU song
The hymn “Earth and all stars” — does anyone else think of Chuck Taylor? — gives us one of my favorite lines in Christian hymnody: “Classrooms and labs, loud boiling test tubes,/sing to the Lord a new song!”
So that’s why I love this video. And that looks like a Linux laptop. I wonder who I [...]
Church calendar on the command line
If you’re a Linux user and work on the command line and care about church calendars . . . well, perhaps you’ve missed this as long as I have.
To find the date of Easter for a particular year according to the Western churches, say 2009 type:
$ ncal -e 2009
For the Eastern churches, type:
$ ncal -o [...]
CrunchBang Linux gets own home
My favorite lightweight distro (edition) of Linux is Philip Newborough’s young CrunchBang Linux, an unofficial variant of Ubuntu Linux using the OpenBox window environment. Now that it’s moved past its wobbly fawn phase, Newborough’s moved it from his CrunchBang blog to crunchbanglinux.com. Bookmark and savor.
But who would make the most of this distro? Perhaps someone [...]
Episcopalians, meet Ubuntu
It’s no secret I have little patience for the Episcopal Church of late, so I wasn’t looking out for the theme of the 2009 General Convention. The Topmost Apple, an Episcopalian blogger I follow, presumably has more patience for the Episcopal Church, but little regard for the theme, which is “Ubuntu: I in You and [...]
