This post is not about programming, so I hope all of you non-programmers won’t give up on it after reading the first paragraph or two.
Last week I blogged about my Open Source project, xajax. As open source projects like Linux, the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the OpenOffice.org Office Suite have gained more prominence, the idea of freely available information and tools has been slowly creeping into other parts of our society.
Fox News reports that a new marriage-vow fad is on the rise:
In some weddings, “’til death do us part” is going the way of “to honor and obey” — that is, out the window.
Vows like “For as long as we continue to love each other,” “For as long as our love shall last” and “Until our time together is over” are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow — a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure.
Over at ProvoPulse, Mason has discovered the BYU’s Speech Archive. He writes:
This has nothing to do with LDS issues, but since my co-bloggers haven’t had much to say this week, and there are plenty of you LDS bloggers out there who are interested in web development, I thought I’d post about my very first open source project. Most of you have probably seen and used the javascript commenting hacks I wrote for blogger-based blogs last year under the name Ebenezer Orthodoxy. Well, my latest project is more abstract and widely applicable, and has potential to revolutionize PHP based web sites, including blogging software like WordPress and b2evolution. And it is free.
I finished the latest Harry Potter book Sunday afternoon, and while I have my complaints, by the last two hundred pages, it had become an enjoyable read. Considering that the book is just over six hundred and fifty pages long, I’m not sure if that is a compliment or a complaint. And while my thoughts that follow were prompted by my reading of Harry Potter, this is not a book review.
We often think the Mathematical and Magical as polar opposites, but it seems to me that in some significant ways they are mirror images.