Diary of a Wimpy Catholic – UPDATEDs

It seems like it’s been a long time coming, right? Late in April, he was guest-blogging for me, and then Max Lindenman disappeared, except for his columns! Have you missed him? Well, he’s back and he has his own blog, where I am sure he will be alternately enraging some and making others do spit-takes [...]

Summa This, Summa That – UPDATED

I’ve been wanting to do this since I started managing the Catholic portal, and now it’s a go: scroll down the landing page of the Catholic Portal to get a gander of the new link-blog which replaces the group-blog that never really took off, but retains it’s name because, well, “Summa This, Summa That” really [...]

Old Comments System Restored

I’ve asked several times over the past few weeks whether folks preferred the Disqus comments style of the usual and via comments and emails, the majority have made it clear that they preferred the older version. So, because I am nothing if not reasonable, we have restored the old commenting system to the blog. Now, [...]

Blogfather Ed Morrissey

I can never say enough good things about Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, whom I call “blogfather” because it was his initial blog, Captain’s Quarters, that first piqued my interest in blogging. Ed managed to blog in a way that was smart, gentlemanly and fair and I thought I might be able to do that, too. [...]

Trying out a New Comments Thingy

You may notice that the comments thingy is different than it has been. Now you will be able to reply more directly to another commenter, and if you want to go tussle between yourselves you can do that without making the comments thread difficult to follow. If people don’t want to watch the sparring, they [...]

Do you Subscribe?

Don’t shut me out! It never occurs to me to push the RSS feeds, but after reading this, I realize I probably should! Then you can get me in your email box, all day long…gosh, that sounds like a threat more than a promise! Anyhow, you can subscribe to this site by putting your email [...]

A Geek's Analogy to Prayer

Was talking to an IT fellow about internet access-issues and the sorts of big-and-small server issues that are the everyday bane of those who make their living on the internets and he described a recent moment of angst: It is SO incredibly frustrating when you try EVERYTHING you know and most things you barely understand [...]