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Passion and Gibson

Saturday, February 21st, 2004

Suddenly, the controversy over Passion makes more sense, now that I know that Mel Gibson is a traditionalist, pre-Vatican II Catholic. While our history books are peppered with references to many of the major moments in Catholic history; I have always been surprised at how modern historians ignore and downplay what was perhaps the […]

Speeding XML

Saturday, February 21st, 2004

For the second time in a row, I am linking to Sun’s website. Sun has posted an article claiming that Java is faster than .NET for processing XML. I was interested in the article, since beside having been the PM for the APIs discussed, I have in the past conducted my own comparisons using Xerces […]

Friday, January 9th, 2004

Scoble’s posts aren’t showing up at scoble.weblogs.com; you need to check at http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/ for now. While you are at it, bookmark Ramkumar Kothandaraman, and nag Michael Rys to put up some new content on his blog.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

A week from Saturday, you have your chance to compete to represent North America in the World Go Oza in Japan. The tournament is at Seattle Go Center and sponsored by Toyota and Denso. You should register by Friday the 16th if you want to play.

Primates are Here to Help

Thursday, October 16th, 2003

I recently remarked on this blog that the SUO debates can sometimes be absurdist. But day-to-day reality provides plenty of such absurdities. One of the most surreal to observe has been the transformation of western Christianity over the past few decades. Although I have been actively observing foronly 20 years, it appears to me that […]