In case you just read the feed, or click over into articles directly, on the main page of our site, at the top of the sidebar on the right, is a “mini blog”. This is where we put minor content or interesting links with brief commentary. It is reserved for items that don’t need a full article.

Ron and I thought we’d share a handy list of software and tools we use on our various computers. All of these are freely available.
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Update: Open Office 2.0 has been released.

Via Daryl: Homeschoolers for Open Office ! RC 2 now available for download.

A few posts back, I mentioned that I was installing linux on a spare computer I had. I hadn’t done anything with it since Monday. Today, I got it connected to the internet through a wireless connection. Tonight I updated the configuration so that it fires up all the network and wireless (including encryption) drivers on boot. Its been an educational experience. I worked with unix years ago, so in many ways it was a dusting of the cobwebs.
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This week Carrie, at Mommy Brain, had 2 entries (here and here) on problems in the leadership of her church.
I commented

…on the third page of “Spiritual Authority”, Watchman Nee said, “…it is possible in our work to stand with Christ in doctrine while standing with Satan in principle.”

What he means is that it is possible to have a Godly end in mind and use Satan’s methods of achieving it. in our society some say, ‘the end justifies the means’.

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“It is important that we try to understand how the idea of help has been so largely corrupted and turned into a destructive exploitation, how the human act of helping is turned more and more into a commodity, an industry, and a monopoly.” (P. 79)

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Flickr, if you haven’t yet jumped on their bandwagon, is a photo-hosting and sharing site. One of the nifty features is the ability to “tag” your photos with keywords, much like Technorati does for blogs. What does this have to do with homeschooling?
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“And so the family home, which we often hear described as the place where we are free to be and dare to be nicer and kinder than we can be anywhere else, turn out much of the time to be the place where at least with our children harsher, more cruel, more contemptuous and insulting, than we would anywhere else.” (P. 77)

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There’s something I noticed over the last short while, while I was worrying about Meaghan’s writing skills and what to do about it.
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“For many years now, in all kinds of places and circumstances, I have noticed that most adults around children do not act as people do when they are with people they like, but very much the opposite. They are anxious, irritable, impatient, looking for fault and usually find it.” (P. 66)

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