Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This is season of Lent provided a time in which converts to […]
Originally posted on my university blog. This is what makes being in a university (and an honors college) so much fun. Meeting folks who have made and been a part of history. Tonight we had our inaugural speaker in the Honors Faculty Colloquium Ambassador Richard Butler. Ambassador Butler is Penn […]
Yesterday evening we arrive in Pittsburgh for the Pens game vs. the Rangers. We had a great time, someone gave us a puck used for warmups, and enjoyed a night in a hotel righ where the rivers meet. Today we are at the Carnegie Science Museum which is tremendous! Lots […]
Tony Pittman of Real Tech is in an interesting conversation regarding whether or not information should be free and, specifically what is the model being developed by universities that are places courses online. The commentator wrote: Based on what I heard about Harvard and MIT offering free classes, I extended […]
This piece (or a version of it, I am over the word limit by 80 words) should appear in the Centre Daily Times in the near future. It is an introduction to an upcoming film series The Reel Jesus. The story is up! “Jesus is coming to a theater near […]
Just like the iPhone. “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” Palm CEO Ed Colligan, commenting on then-rumored Apple iPhone, 16 Nov 2006 […]
This is behind a pay wall and doesn’t reveal much that you don’t already know, but I thought I would note this piece from CHE. Scholars Try to Piece Together Whats Best Done With the Dead Sea Scrolls – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The story will be […]
I have had repeated problems with my WP dashboard disappearing, or at least elements on of it. When I trouble shoot plugins I would usually find some combination that would make all the widgets reappear, but not always. The dashboard would look like this: One day I noticed that I […]
You have probably heard by now (unless you were outside shoveling) that it snowed over much of the mid-Atlantic region. We got hit with about 16 inches in Happy Valley. The folks (and my folks) in DC were getting hammered pretty hard, they are expecting a whopping 3o inches! Jim […]