I’ve long believed it, despite facing a lot of dismissive doubters. And yet, I’ve encountered people through my blog who were provoked by something I said to consider the faith, or who were bolstered in their pursuit of it. I’ll probably never know how the things I write influence those that read them.
In a column [...]

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I asked you on Friday for your prayers for a family with a very sick little baby girl. In the mysterious way that God works, I am sure your prayers have helped them to endure the tragedy that has ensued.
I got word this morning that little Cate Cantrell has passed away. I have no details, [...]

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This gets a little crass in the middle, but it’s LOL funny nonetheless. I wrecked my pants because I was laughing so hard:

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Wired takes a gander at the way scientific discovery is changing due to massive amounts of data aquisition and storage, Google style:
Faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. Consider physics: Newtonian models were crude approximations of the truth (wrong at the atomic level, but still useful). [...]

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Dale Price cites some data sent to him by novelist (and frequent comm box visitor) S.M. Stirling, indicating that the Muslim birthrate in Europe is dropping off too.
Maybe so. I want to see more correlation, though.

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My apologies for providing so little content here of late. The fact remains that when I am writing here, I am not getting paid, and with lots of things tightening up on the financial side of life lately, that’s a much bigger concern.
I’m still posting fairly regularly at the Inside Catholic blog, and am trying [...]

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Charlie Cantrell and I went to Franciscan University together. I didn’t know him well, but he was always a good guy with a great sense of humor. I haven’t heard his name in years, but I got an e-mail last night from a mutual friend:
I wanted to ask for your prayers. Charlie Cantrell (which [...]

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My lovely wife IMed me today (yes, Hilary, that’s an internet verb) with quite possibly the funniest thing anyone has ever asked me. I will now provide a transcript for posterity (edited for clarity):
jskojec: Have you ever eaten hot sauce so hot you loose your earing a little bit?

Steve: my hearing? Holy s**t, no!
Steve: I [...]

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I finally watched it last night. Great movie, right up until the last 20 minutes or so. Of course, just about everyone says that.
The funny thing to me about movies, and in this case, the book that they are sometimes based on, is that they are meant to tell a story. A good story, a [...]

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This morning, trying to get a Flash plugin for my shiny new Mozilla Firefox 3 open source browser to work, I was compelled to google search for solutions that work around my particular issue, read through an online forum until I landed on the right process, download a plugin archive in .XPI format, extract it [...]

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