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Augustine and Prayer

alesmeralda — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:01:30 +0000

This morning I gave a lecture on Augustine’s idea of prayer at the CSA-Biñan as part of the school’s program in understanding Augustinian core values. During the course of the preparation for the talk, I looked at the way the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes use of Augustine’s works. I already knew that Augustine is the most quoted Father of the Church in the Catechism. I was surprised to find out that even in the fourth part of the Catechism, he is also quoted more than any of the Doctors, Fathers and spiritual writers referenced there.

Sourced from: The Mystical Geek

Woo-hooo! Windows Live Writer!

alesmeralda — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:03:49 +0000

I just installed the Windows Live Writer in my Vista and I am trying it out. Besides I have heard so much about it that I just couldn’t keep myself from testing it. An article from WikiPedia gives a programmer’s description of the software. As early as August of 2006, TechCrunch was already comparing it with desktop blogging applications then available. He writes:

Windows Live Writer has a lot of bells and whistles – preview in WYSIWYG or HTML mode, support for most blogging platforms (Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others), easy insertion of photos and things like Live.com Maps, and tagging. Good stuff, but none of it differentiates it from existing year old products.

What does differentiate Live Writer is that they’ve released an API that allows developers to extend the capabilities of the software to publish additional content types.

That was in 2006. Last year, Digital Inspiration had an article that described Live Writer in these terms

Windows Live Writer from Microsoft (especially version 2) is probably one of the best and most popular blog editing software around for Windows platform.

But the main purpose of the quoted article was to give tips on how to make use of the Live Writer like a powerblogger. And then early this month, PCMech posted the following:

If there is any be-all/end-all blog writing utility out there that classifies as the best, it’s Windows Live Writer. For all the bungling that Microsoft does with its other products, WLW is one that actually shines and does so very well.

Why is this? Because it does what any good blog authoring tool should do – author to just about anywhere. WordPress, Live Spaces, LiveJournal, MovableType and several others.

So here I am, making my first post with Windows Live Writer. What is lacking now is this port in its place…

Success!

(My Windows Live Spaces doesn’t look good though)

This Made My Day

alesmeralda — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:52:38 +0000

In 2012 I’’ll be 50 years old. Read this article about the end of the world and reflect: if the world does end on that date, would you still want to survive? Read this article by Christine Brouwer and the next time you are at Google, type in the number “2012”. You just might find it boring.