The Church and New Media - Book on Catholic New Media use

The Church and New Media

I've heard about this book here and there the past few months, but it's getting all official now, with a spiffy website , a trailer (hey, I thought only movies had those!), and A-list endorsements .

From the endorsements:

“This book demonstrates how New Media is already impacting the Church and outlines many practical steps for dioceses, parishes, and individual Catholics to embrace it more broadly…Everyone involved in Communications and Evangelization ministries for the Church should read

Making an old iPod Mini Awesome Again

What's better than having every song you've ever purchased available wherever you are, without worrying about an expensive MP3 player getting stolen?

I've had my music library on my iPhone and iPad for some time now, but I find it cumbersome to listen to music on one of those devices, and I don't like taking them with me for a run, or setting them somewhere they might get stolen (like at a party, plugged into a stereo or sound system).

And I


PHP: Calculating Monthly/Yearly Billing Dates - Same day next month

On a recent project, I needed to generate the timestamp for the 'same day, next month' for billing purposes. This can be tough in some circumstances, like when a user signs up on the 31st of August. What happens in September, when there are 30 days? If I were to simply try something like strtotime('+1 month') , I would get back the first day of October rather than September 30th. Same problem happens when someone hits February (oh


Granuloma

Uncertainty is a key word in science and medicine. Classical description of a disease as we learn from the textbooks, and as we admire it in straightforward presentation, is never happening in real life.

"How true," I whispered as I taught my students yesterday on a chest radiograph from a lady with cough and fluid in her lung. As soon as I showed them the picture, most students pointed to the fluid without hesitation.

"So is there anything abnormal you can spot out?" I smiled. They

依法而離譜

我們現在都崇尚法治,卻不應忘記社會複雜,難有完善的法律,而且執法的是人,法律即使有合理的基礎,執行時多少也要依靠人的判斷,有時須要看情況講情理,否則可以是依法而離譜。

最近美國印地安納州一名中學生因惡作

五個你不應該用電腦的理由

如果你有以下情況,其實你真的不應該用電腦,你比較適合紙和筆。

1) 舉凡電腦有問題,你第一個想法是「問人」。

無論是喇叭沒有聲音、下載了的檔案無法開啟、無意中刪除了資源回收筒、顯示屏的顏色不正確、電腦中毒、

桃花林

親愛的塔:

還記得那年我們同遊北京的桃花林嗎?

翻看照片,那不盡的深深淺淺的粉紅,極美。

我們各拿著相機,你忙著拍風景,然後桃花落在你的頭頂上,我忙著為隨身小布偶拍照,然後它掉落泥中。

之後,你遇上那個他,是

Disabling Autocomplete on forms in Drupal 6 or 7 - Forms API

With the awesome new #states implementation in Drupal 7, and for form usability in general, it's often good to be able to selectively, or completely, disable form autocompletion for your users. One example I just encountered was a form that has two fields that are alternatively shown or hidden depending on the value of a checkbox earlier in the form. However, Google Chrome, in its infinite wisdom, was autofilling the hidden field, which shouldn't have a value if hidden, so I had to set


七一偉業後篇…

香港的女生校服誘人,連校員管工都可以看著放學的女生自瀆,世風日下,東洋淫風西漸

原來台灣的應召女郎是在新竹的,看了艋舺這電影,還以為全在艋舺

顏如憶這檳榔西施,被警察一摔成名,還去日本出寫真,再回台灣新竹

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七一偉業…

呵呵,我即影即有的天空

人生三大忌,飛揚拔扈,鋒芒太露,一帆風順。

張柏芝承認離婚,那很正路,想想,兒子大了在電腦看到母親和希哥哥的精彩表現,那心理狀態,實在是非一般的享受。上學時同學們的每一個笑臉,都充

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