Mr. Locke’s Classroom

This is pretty incredible — I’m impressed with how easy it is to use this voice recognition tool that comes standard with Vista. Maybe someday Linux will catch up… (oh, you have to watch at least two or three minutes to really appreciate it) Thanks for the link, Jeff!

In high school, I wrote about two or three songs each month, mostly melodramatic love songs and nineties-pop songs . In college, I slowed to about two or three songs a year. After college and for most of the last decade, I’m lucky if I write one song every three years. So I’m kind of [...]

As excited as we are about Seminary and moving into the “next phase” of our lives, getting our house ready to sell has been less than exciting, and mostly just a lot of work. But we’re almost there. If all goes as planned, our awesome real estate agent (and my best man at our wedding), [...]

What Does it Mean to “Own” Something? And two tangential questions: Who or what grants ownership? God? Government? Consensus? Strength? Are there things that cannot be owned? Places? People? Thoughts? God? And yes, I fully realize the historical irony of someone with my last name asking this sort of question. For more on what to [...]

In Open-Source culture, taking someone’s programming code and modifying it to suit one’s own needs and purposes is not considered theft, but rather a compliment of the highest order. To that end, I’m taking a page from the blog of friend and fellow Presbymergent Adam Walker Cleaveland. Over the course of the next few weeks, [...]