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John Goerzen: Imagine 1

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Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young man in your 20s, trying to make your way in the world. You are married and have a young daughter, just old enough to start to talk. You live in a run-down neighborhood, long…

John Goerzen: A response to “7 Ways Religion is Detrimental to Science”

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I read 7 Ways Religion is Detrimental to Science, and thought it would be an interesting read. It was, but I don’t think it really made sense. Let’s look at the 7 ways they highlighted:

1. Faith and the Scientific…

John Goerzen: Bicycling to Work

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We hear a lot these days about the price of gas, energy efficiency, and the like. But, in the United States, outside of a few progressive cities, there aren’t a lot of people that are using the ultimate zero-emissions…

John Goerzen: DjVu and the scourge of the PDF

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A little while back, I wrote a blog post called DjVu: Almost Awesome, where I pointed out the strengths of the three DjVu family of formats, but lamented the fact that there was no Free Software to create DjVu files in…

John Goerzen: Towards Better Bookmark Syncing: del.icio.us and diigo

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I use Firefox (well, Iceweasel) from several machines. On a daily basis, at least three: my workstation at home, my workstation at work, and my laptop. I have wanted to have my bookmarks synced between all three of…