Natural Blogarithms

I finished up a couple books since last time I updated the reading list on this blog.  I also added another few books to the list.
Just finished:
Being a Christian in Science by Walter R. Hearn
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
 
New Additions:

Coming to Peace With Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology [...]

I started following (via my preferred RSS reader: Google Reader) a blog by John Peltier, of Peltier Technical Services, called PTS Charts and Things.  I have been utterly fascinated by a few of his recent posts where he takes on the challenge of producing a chart of a particular form using the features built-in [...]

This was the top headline in my Google News for the local section in Lubbock, TX.  I had to share.

I wish I’d thought of that.
Thanks to a post in LifeHacker, I have set up a few bookmarks in Firefox that will open in the sidebar. I recently discovered the trick of opening links in the sidebar but I did not think to use mobile apps such as the new iphone app in Google [...]

A friend of mine saw me running a distribution of Linux from within Vista and asked that I post how I set it up so here it goes:

Download and install Virtual Box (see www.vitualbox.org)
Download your favorite distribution of Linux. Download an install disk image (*.iso file). Here are a couple suggestions

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download

Be sure to note where [...]

I received an email earlier to day trying to promote some sort of a boycott of Exxon/Mobile Mobil gasoline stations in an effort to force them to lower their gas prices. Recognizing that there are few around my neck of the woods, I didn’t pay much attention to the email. Plus, I [...]