This week's St. Louis Review has a few excellent articles that I thought I should share here for the benefit of those reading this blog who may not be from St. Louis.

First is a column from Archbishop Carlson, in which he stresses the importance, and individual responsibility, of the Sunday Obligation. He definitely doesn't sugarcoat things—we need more of this from our leaders!

There is simply no excuse for missing Mass on the Lord's Day. If through your own fault

A few notes on the iPad 2, based on reading the tech specs thoroughly, and observing some videos frame-by-frame:

• The iPad 2 is much faster, and has much better graphics processing, than the original. Many apps won't benefit too much from the dual-core A5, though, until their developers redesign some aspect of their Apps.
• The iPad 2 will pass through Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, using the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
• The iPad 2 likely has more RAM

One thing that I've constantly had to do for video production is lug around my Mac, a camera, cables, etc., just because there was nothing that was as easy as iMovie to quickly hash out a video, with voiceover, etc. The iPhone's iMovie app is just not good enough

Two issues I have been thinking about more than others lately are technology as a distraction, and the distance between the Church and mainstream culture in implementing new tech/media initiatives.

To the first, the article reminds the reader, through the words of seminarian Gregory Carl, "Media and technology have a

Borrowing from answers in this Stack Overflow question, here's how you can get through a corporate (Microsoft) NTLM Proxy to clone git repositories from drupal.org:

cd into your drupal contrib directory (or wherever you want to put the repository).

$ export http_proxy="https://username:password@proxy:port/"

$ git clone https://git.drupal.org/project/[projectname]

Basically, you're first setting an environment variable to tell

This is half for my own reference, because I have a few other computers I still need to set up, and I don't want to keep referring back to drupal.org docs to get everything ready for Git.

In case you've been under a rock lately, drupal.org was down for a while yesterday, while a team of dedicated Drupal peeps spent a few hours migrating everything in drupal.org's version control system (which was running CVS) to Git. Git is an excellent

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Whither have you gone, https://webchickcanbedistracted.com/ ? Remember the kittens !

Here are my three recommendations for making your Drupal 7 website run great on a shared (or low-end VPS) host:

1. Enable Boost . It's