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Greg Mankiw’s recent blog post makes some interesting claims, but in it he glosses over some important pieces of the real-world situation for the majority of Americans. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve never hacked my iPhone, but I’m thinking about doing it now.

I was running iPhone software 2.0.1.  When 2.1 came out, I told iTunes to download it but not install.  I made the mistake this morning of telling iTunes to go ahead and install the update on my iPhone, despite being

1. overseas, and thus away from any usable AT&T signal, and
2. in airplane mode, and thus unable to receive a signal anyway.

Now I have a lovely little brick that tells me I need to plug it into iTunes, and a message from iTunes saying that, because I can’t get signal, it can’t get needed data from the brick.  It’s still an Airplane-mode brick, sadly, with no way to get at the settings to change that.  The only thing I *can* do on the phone, apparently, is open it up for emergency calls – but those calls wouldn’t even work, because it’s an Airplane brick!

Do you have any hints for what I might be able to do to fix this?

I made it again. The only thing not captured in the pictures is the chipotle, which I toasted and then soaked before adding it to the mix.

Then I brought it to a potluck, where there was also this tasty mixed green salad with beets, oranges, gorgonzola, and balsamic vinaigrette.

This time, with a leg of lamb. Apologies to my vegan readers, and many thanks to farmer Dan of Wooden Bridge Farm, who has kept me well-supplied with locally raised lamb and beef this summer.

I’m nearly done eating this meal already. I’ve thought, while making it, “I should take a picture of this.” But I haven’t, because it was just too delicious and inspiring. Read the rest of this entry »

As you may have noticed, I’ve restored the category data for my website. Now that’s done, I’ll convert many of my categories to tags, and put up a tag cloud.

And apparently I need to reinitialize my iPhone wordpress app, so that it recognizes all my prettily restored categories.

Let this be a lesson to you: always back up the database before upgrading. Always. Even when upgrading has never broken anything before.

On the first evening of the Young Adult Friends Conference this weekend here at Earlham, in Richmond, Indiana, I heard a lot of messages about perfection. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m writing from the Young Adult Friends (YAF) Conference at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. This has been (and continues to be) a powerful weekend for me. The only expectation I had when I arrived was that I would be transformed. Okay, so I also expected to see a lot of old f/Friends and make new ones, and I was hoping to spread the word about other future YAF gatherings (actually, I thought that was a key and important reason for my coming here; more on that later), but I showed up with the expectation that I would undergo thorough and dramatic change.

That expectation has been fulfilled, again and again. I look forward to writing more later, but at the moment I’m headed off to our evening program.

On Saturday, my copies of the third edition of On Conflict and Consensus arrived from C.T. Butler – and so I have posted the pdf.  It’s compiled from the same source, and using the same software, as the pdf that was used to print the book.  You can find it, as usual, at http://wandreilagh.org/consensus.pdf. Read the rest of this entry »