What it is
My name is Geoffrey Jost and this is my blog, in which I mostly write about things of interest to me. Your mileage may vary. : ]
My name is Geoffrey Jost and this is my blog, in which I mostly write about things of interest to me. Your mileage may vary. : ]
posted 25 Apr 2008 (Fri) at 11:28a.m. from the office
FYI, the Ubuntu just released version 8.04 of their Linux distribution. I run Ubuntu on the servers and my desktop at work, and on my personal laptop, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. If you've heard that Linux is just for geeks, it's totally not true any more. Linux is a rock-solid operating system that runs well even on old computers, and the Ubuntu team have packaged it so that it's really easy to use and pretty easy to install.
I could go on about how Linux is free and open, and lets you monkey around with the source-code of your programs, and that's all true. But the best thing about Linux and other open-source projects is the people.
posted 25 Apr 2008 (Fri) at 9:07a.m. from the Gold Line
Those folks up in PDX have really got it going on. I just ran across the web site for Free Geek, which is an organization that takes donations of computers and either recycles them responsibly (if they're too old) or refurbishes them, installs Linux, and then gives them away.
posted 15 Feb 2008 (Fri) at 10:28a.m. from an unspecified location
"Are you really so scared of terrorists that you'll dismantle the structures that made America what it is? ... If you are, you let the terrorist win. Because that is exactly, specifically, his goal, his only goal: to frighten you into surrendering the rule of law. That's why they call him 'terrorist'. He uses terrifying threats to induce you to degrade your own society."
posted 13 Feb 2008 (Wed) at 7:52a.m. from the kitchen table
I'm reading a couple articles that were mentioned in a Revolution in Jesusland posting about how young evangelical voters are not necessarily Republicans (thank God this is finally starting to happen!).
The ABC News article says that those interviewed for the story were at "a concert and a rally in New York City, a huge gathering of Christian youth came together to decry the coarsening of culture." One of the quotes lept out at me:
"What should be done to stop glamorizing the things that are destroying my friends, your friends -- like drugs, alcohol and sex?" cried a young evangelical.
