Mr. Locke’s Classroom

(and any other copyright hawks still reading)

I Just finished reading Eric S. Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. If you’re unfamiliar with this work, it’s not (despite the title) anything about theology. It’s actually the seminal text on the history and rationale behind the open source software movement, from one of its key architects and proponents. Although ESR (as he is [...]

Well, not all of them. Just 68%.

Here’s the not-so-interesting but obligatory update on our living status. We put our house on the market, and it sold in about three days. Not for as much as we’d hoped, but is it ever? At least we got it over with. That put us in a rush to find an apartment we could move [...]

For the past two years, Del Camacho was our church’s custodian. I’m convinced that if ever Jesus has passed quietly through my life and spoken with me, it was through Del. More often than I’d like, I find myself working late hours at the church — it’s just about the only time things are quiet [...]