Archive for 2010

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

An interesting discussion by comedian (and atheist) Penn Jillette. For me, personally, many times I hold my tongue out of a desire to make sure the timing and the words are right. Maybe I should leave it up to the Holy Spirit? I don’t know. Hat tip: Custardy

Anthropic global warming theory = junk science

An unfalsifiable theory is, by definition, junk science. Anthropic global warming is unfalsifiable, as can be seen with the recent rise to prevalence of the term “climate change” in place of global warming. Sure, the global temperatures have not risen for the past 15 years, but if you say “climate change,” you can have it […]

Require basic test to vote

Filed under Politics

I wonder whether it might be better if there was a basic test required before people were allowed to vote. If a basic knowledge of civics and economics was required before people could vote, I don’t think we’d be in the state we are in today. It’s probably unconstitutional, but perhaps we could make an […]

Pop-up notifications for new mail on the iPhone

Filed under iPhone

Okay, I promise this will be the last iPhone post for at least a little while. After successfully getting push e-mail working on my iPhone, I got greedy and wanted to have a pop-up notification and sound alert when I got a new message. So here’s what I did: 1) Grabbed a copy of IMAProwl […]

Dovecot and iPhone push

Filed under iPhone

I don’t know how many of you out there have your own webserver and an iPhone, but I just found the thing I’ve been looking for ever since I got my iPhone: push e-mail! I have a webserver running cPanel, Dovecot and suPHP. Here’s what I did: 1) Download z-push from here. 2) Upload z-push […]