Mr. Locke’s Classroom

Ok, so I don’t usually hawk products or services on my blog, just ideologies. BUT…
I get asked on a fairly regular basis if I do webdesign or webconsulting, and I do–I just haven’t been very organized or “systematic” about it up to this point. I’ve worked for pay, for free, for large organizations, [...]

Last month, during Jan Term, I had an interesting conversation at a lunch-gathering with my Pseudo-Dionysius professor, Dr. Paul Rorem and a few other students. We started off talking about the inauguration, and I mentioned that I would be watching and “twittering” it along with 50 or so of my closest twitter friends. [...]

I’ve been having serious website issues in the past two weeks, and I noticed my feed subscriptions via feedburner dropped by about 30%.  While I could be cynical and attribute it to my last post about John McCain, I suspect it actually has more to do with what looks like a broken rss feed.
So if [...]

…when you could be reading one of these awesome new blogs instead:

Thoughts From the Road — This is my former pastor, Philip Lotspeich, who now works at the Presbyterian Death Star in Louisville, Kentucky. He (obviously) writes often about theology and evangelism, but sometimes digresses into hilarious tangents about getting blamed for bathroom odors [...]

This time it’s not about me. It’s all about Jesus. To be specific, Jesus Gauna Trejo, who lives in Cadereyta, Nuevo León, México and sells Tacos to support his his three kids (he’s a single Dad). He needs money to renovate his Taco stand, so I loaned him $75 through Kiva.org (he [...]

I just uploaded all five of my “folk-songs” to Open Source Audio, a division of the Internet Archive. I love this project, and it’s a great place to find interesting songs, documentaries, short films, and audio recordings - all licensed under Creative Commons, and free to use/share/remix. And if you go there [...]

I went foraging on YouTube today, trying to figure out the chords and fingerings for a song I’ve waited much too long to add to my repertoire. I was pretty impressed with what I found. I think Woody would’ve been pretty impressed, too. Come to think of it, I think he would’ve [...]