Monthly Archives: December 2005

NPR on Balikbayan Boxes

By deebeedee | Published: December 24, 2005

Gift Boxes Help Migrant Filipinos Keep Ties to Home (via the dubious biologist)

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Last-Minute Blogging

By deebeedee | Published: December 24, 2005

Whew, four posts in a row. While my wife was out doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, I was home doing some last-minute blogging. I have a few more things to write about but it’ll have to wait until the weekend’s festivities are over.
We’ll be zig-zagging across the Bay Area the next couple of days. Tomorrow [...]

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Muslims Guard Jakarta’s Christians

By deebeedee | Published: December 24, 2005

In what is called “Operation Candle,” Muslim authorities in Indonesia are providing security to Christian churches in Jakarta during this Christmas season. It is part of the authorities’ goal “to move beyond physical security to include an ideological campaign against violent strains of Islam.”
During Christmas Eve 2000, “29 churches were bombed in an attack blamed [...]

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Google Video, Peanuts and Comcast DVR

By deebeedee | Published: December 23, 2005

Remember the kids’ “Peanuts” video from last year? Well, I uploaded it to Google Video last week and it’s now live! It got formatted funny though ’cause it’s got black space to the right and bottom of the video. I think it has to do with the fact that I submitted it as a .mov [...]

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Reversal on No Christmas Day Service

By deebeedee | Published: December 23, 2005

The decision by some megachurches to cancel Sunday services on Christmas Day was puzzling to say the least. Not surprisingly, it got the “kneejerks” (as I like to call them) at Metafilter on a ridicule roll. Then news came a couple of days ago that one of those Christmas Day Service-canceling pastors regretted his decision [...]

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