It’s been a long while since i have perused the sta­tis­tics DreamHost pro­vides regard­ing band­width, disk space, MySQL usage, and so on. So long, in fact, that i for­got all about “conueries,” DreamHost’s in-​house assess­ment of sys­tem resources used by a database.

I’ll be the first to admit that my usage is very likely on the small end of the scale — i man­age small sites with hum­ble traf­fic num­bers. How­ever, i looked at my data­base usage, and i couldn’t help but think that i could do bet­ter. A quick visit to DreamHost’s Word­Press per­for­mance guide reminded me of a pair of essen­tial plu­g­ins i’ve been neglect­ing. [click to continue…]

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“And this is the condemnation, that knowledge is come into the world, and men loved ignorance rather than knowledge, because their deeds were superstitious.”

And this is the con­dem­na­tion, that knowl­edge is come into the world, and men loved igno­rance rather than knowl­edge, because their deeds were super­sti­tious.” — John 3:19, Ratio­nal Version

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Avengers Assem­ble! A Sum­mer Block­buster Comparison

May 4, 2012
Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow

Jess & i had the good for­tune of watch­ing The Avengers ear­lier today dur­ing its first show­ing here in town. There isn’t a lot i could add to the global dis­cus­sion of this movie — all the blogs are abuzz with it (and rightly so!) — so rather than write a full review, i will […]

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We’re Hav­ing a Yard Sale

April 24, 2012
yard sale preparation -- it's a process

Seven years ago, i was tak­ing a hard look at my life, prepar­ing to move com­pletely out of Mom’s house for the first time, into a home that for which i’d be per­son­ally respon­si­ble. To be hon­est, that post would have been long for­got­ten — it barely resulted in a blip in this site’s traffic […]

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The Imag­i­nary Path of Human Evolution

January 26, 2012
Matt Slick

In his effort to cast a shadow over the the­ory of evo­lu­tion, Matt Slick presents in his Apolo­get­ics Note­book a list of pur­ported mem­bers in the evo­lu­tion­ary ances­try of mankind, with this brief intro­duc­tion: The fol­low­ing is a list of the alleged evo­lu­tion­ary record of man. If evo­lu­tion is true, then there should be evidence. […]

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Matt Slick’s Prob­lems with Evolution

January 24, 2012
Matt Slick

Lack of evi­dence, ill-​defined evo­lu­tion­ary trees, and more are pre­sented as prob­lems with evo­lu­tion­ary the­ory by apol­o­gist Matt Slick, but do these crit­i­cisms hold up under scrutiny?

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Wel­come to This World

January 22, 2012

When a baby is born, they know noth­ing of the Chris­t­ian reli­gion. This video intro­duces them to the faith in a way that shows its absurdity.

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