Archive for April, 2005

April 30, 2005

Working flux

by Josh at 12:06 pm

It appears my days of doing IT work for housing activists are numbered, or rather the money that can be paid to me for working for housing activists is numbered. In any case, my connection with that world is severing a little bit. I may continue to do work here and there, but [...]

Blogging pastors

by Josh at 11:30 am

Apparently Scott Collins-Jones, newly called pastor of Woodland Presbyterian Church, is a blogger.

April 29, 2005

Historic events

by Josh at 1:34 pm

A bar room conversation yesterday about the fall of the Berlin wall got me thinking about historic events. I was wondering how often we come across stories of that magnitude in the news. Well, there’s a good candidate on the Globe website today.
I think we’ll probably be seeing more stories like this coming [...]

April 28, 2005

Curt Schilling – gamer geek

by Josh at 8:10 am

I noticed this picture from the Globe website today which was attached to an article about Curt Schilling going on the DL. Schilling is wearing an Everquest II hat. Does Curt Schilling play MMORPGs when he’s not playing baseball?

April 25, 2005

Church Visiting

by Josh at 9:48 am

On Saturday, Susannah and I (though mostly Susannah) made a last minute decision to visit Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston. There are a few BU people who attend the church, so we had been thinking of visiting for a while. On Saturday, we discovered that as a result of a series of [...]

April 24, 2005

TV makes you smarter?

by Josh at 9:50 pm

I read this post on boingboing, and I have to say this may be the dumbest thing they ever linked. It’s about a book called Everything Bad is Good For You and links a New York times article by the author of the book. The essential argument is that television isn’t as bad [...]

April 22, 2005

Microsoft – It Just Does What It Feels Like

by Josh at 8:16 pm

When I first came across this article, linked by slashdot, about Microsoft’s new mantra “It Just Works,” I had to laugh. Of course, I thought they were talking about Windows XP which certainly does not “just work.” But this article is more about Microsoft’s production goals for Longhorn, their next Windows release. [...]

Affordable housing again

by Josh at 11:54 am

Two more articles in the Globe this morning. One about the silent opposition to affordable housing. The other about church property in the fenway area that was sold to Northeastern.
It’s really sad that people distrust their neighbors so much. And this is really what it’s all about. Some residents in JP [...]

April 21, 2005

Affordable housing in the news

by Josh at 9:23 am

The Globe ran two stories today about the fight over the Blessed Sacrament church in Jamaica Plain (complete with quotes from current and former coworkers of mine.) The situation is this: due to church scandals, the archdiocese of Boston has closed several parishes and is selling the land. The fight is over what [...]

April 17, 2005

Documentary on Education

by Josh at 9:42 pm

For those interested in the problems with and solutions for the current public school system, I would like to point you towards this blog that I came across last week.
The author talks about the documentary I am a Promise and links to articles from the Philadelphia Weekly that followed up on the kids ten years [...]