The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
Prologue. So, I finally broke. It was one too many WiFi drop-outs on a day when I just really wanted to be able to watch a TV show without having to fiddle. And I guess that’s where I should start. 10 years ago, our house would be “far from normal”. It’d be modern, edgy, technologically […]
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We left off the last section saying we’d look next at how to protect against heresies and controversy. Spoiler alert! I am about to argue that the single most important thing a true Christian can do here is know how to handle scripture correctly. This is another enormous topic – so as in all the […]
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In the previous part of this series we looked at three major translation theories – and looked at the complexities of translating even a simple word such as “flesh”. A few times I’ve found myself in a discussion around how ‘Pauline’ missionaries (like New Tribes Mission) handle translating words into very rare languages (like those […]
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At the very start of this series I said we’d answer three questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible translation (what we have in English today)? Does our choice of Bible translation matter? Is there one “perfect” Bible translation […]
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Last time we left off with an unanswered question: given scripture is written or spoken by prophets, apostles, scribes, and “apostolically[sic] approved” people – then in what way is scripture divinely inspired? Does this not leave us with yet another book written by the hands of men? Question:Is the Bible simply dictated by God? Some […]
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A couple of years ago I ran a 2-part series for our church’s Wednesday evening bible study titled “What actually is the Bible?”. The goal was to answer three essential questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible […]
Continue ReadingI’ve toyed with several titles for this LinkedIn article. “Why I have a phobia of ordering in MacDonalds” was one, along with “Dyslexia: the pain is real!”, “10 things only dyslexics will appreciate” and “Why I’m always late for that meeting…” This isn’t a super-serious reflection on life – I intend it to be a […]
Continue ReadingAnyone who knows me knows how utterly frustrating I find the state of email today. It’s inherently insecure, absolutely relied upon, and there’s always someone who “didn’t get your email”. For larger businesses the offerings by Microsoft and the alike (Office365 for example) make sense. For me however – it’s Courier-MTA on a Debian box. […]
Continue ReadingI don’t wish this to be a rant, and I wish it to be far from fuel for the flame wars which have been burning for several decades over open source projects which transform into “mostly closed” and very non-free “products”. Read more over on my LinkedIn post…
Continue ReadingAfter months of frustration – having our outbound emails randomly fail for distribution groups (alias lists in Courier MTA terminology) – I found the cause. Our SMTP smarthost doesn’t allow multiple “RCPT TO:” commands in an email header. By default, Courier batches up all emails forwarded to the same domain name. There’s a switch to […]
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