Weblogging Archives (34 entries)

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See Ya

· 1 December 2006 | 16 words

No one's home here. See you over at You, a prayerful conversation by an iHermit....

To Enter the Desert as an iHermit

· 19 November 2006 | 418 words

The old CowPi Journal is just shy of 800 entries, and I don't have that much more to say in this format at this time and place. My energy has been elsewhere. The Quote of the Day will continue through...

CowPi DNA

· 9 October 2006 | 4 words

Webpage as DNA art...

Catholic Carnival #86

· 4 July 2006 | 293 words

Our focus moves from the inward to the outward as we mingle through this week's carnival. Barbara at SFO Mom writes about a child's honest and simple expression leads to a reflection on Trust Me. In Tangible Faith, Penitens at...

Catholic Carnival #83

· 13 June 2006 | 656 words

As we mingle through this week's carnival, our focus will move from the outward to the inward. When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to...

The Catechism Blog

· 15 April 2006 | 94 words

There is a new group weblog starting up called the Catholic Catechism Dialogue Blog. The purpose of this weblog is to open a forum for reflection and discussion on the CCC by a group of Catholic contributing writers, of...

Catholic Carnival #73

· 4 April 2006 | 1189 words

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say "We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore We can laugh our lives away and be free...

Four Questions

· 28 March 2006 | 711 words

Here is a meme that St. Ignatius of Loyola started. In his Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius wrote that four questions must be asked of any leader that one chooses to follow. The same is true of Jesus Christ. 1. Who is...

Bible Meme

· 11 March 2006 | 286 words

I do not do many memes, but I like this one found at Happy Catholic. 1. Who is your favorite Biblical personage, other than Jesus? It is hard to narrow down to one person. Near the top of the list...

Ma.gnolia

· 26 February 2006 | 155 words

I'm trying an experiment that will be available only on the main page of this weblog. At the bottom of the sidebar, I have added a section called "Bookmarks". This is a collection of links to other places on...

Meme in Honor of the Trinity

· 20 November 2005 | 190 words

I've been tagged by Crystal. I normally do not do these meme things, but since it was Crystal... :) Here's the meme in honor of the Holy Trinity and the start of a new liturgical year: 1. Write three things...

Re-Enabled

· 19 September 2005 | 12 words

Comments and trackbacks and been re-enabled for some of the recent posts....

A Fresh Cow Pi

· 11 September 2005 | 256 words

The old CowPi v3.0Older CowPi v2.0Original CowPi v1.0 The latest version of CowPi has reverted to a minimalist design employing plenty of white space. I miss the color a little, and the sunset image at the top a lot, but...

To Touch the Rain

· 5 September 2005 | 466 words

Desolation never comes from God. -- St. Ignatius of Loyola If it did, we would just be puppets. And where would our free will be then? St. Ignatius advised not to make any changes in the middle of a...

Catholic Carnival #11

· 3 January 2005 | 991 words

Happy New Year to all! Welcome to this week's Catholic Carnival, a baker's dozen of submitted writings from Catholic weblogs. In no particular order: The Night Litany by Lane at The Blog from the Core: Intercessory prayers for all kinds...

Hosting Catholic Carnival

· 2 January 2005 | 105 words

This week's Catholic Carnival will be hosted here at CowPi Journal. Last week's was at Living Catholicism. To enter is simple. First, write a post on your weblog from a Catholic Christian point of view. Second, do the following: EMAIL...

Christian Carnival XLV

· 24 November 2004 | 1633 words

Welcome to this week's Christian Carnival (#45), an eclectic collection of submitted writings from Christian weblogs. The following 37 articles are loosely organized around the idea that there are three dimensions to spirituality: vertical, horizontal or outward, and inward. Each...

Hosting Christian Carnival

· 21 November 2004 | 153 words

This week's Christian Carnival will be hosted here at CowPi Journal. Last week's was at ChristWeb. To enter is simple. First, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude posts that are political (or otherwise)...

New Colors

· 8 November 2004 | 9 words

Time for some new colors for the ol' weblog......

I’ve Been Spammed

· 30 October 2004 | 259 words

I wish it was all a bad take on the classic Monty Python skit--Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am......

Some Memes

· 19 October 2004 | 94 words

A BOOK you own that none of your friends do: Raids on the Unspeakable by Thomas Merton A CD you own that none of your friends do: Paul McCartney's Wings Over America A DVD/VHS tape you own that none...

Some Changes at CowPi

· 17 July 2004 | 408 words

You may have noticed the new "Quote" box at the top of the home page. My quote category was getting big with over 140 quotes so far, representing just over 30% of my total journal entries. I could see it...

New Look

· 29 June 2004 | 363 words

The old CowPi v2.0 Well, it seems to be that time of year again when I remodel the ol' weblog. Welcome to CowPi version 3.0! The colors are a bit bold for my personality, but hey, I'm trying to expand...

Weblogging and Anonymity

· 15 June 2004 | 574 words

In a comment to my previous entry, Karen asked a question regarding anonymity, spirituality, and weblogging. My reply was too long. It deserved it's own journal entry. Do you see blogging as being antithetical to this sort of anonymity? Yes...

New Archive Structure

· 6 March 2004 | 178 words

I have reorganized my archive structure. This should be of little concern for most visitors. Through the miracle of Apache's htaccess file and the redirect directive, all the old links prior to this date have been mapped to their new...

Amusing Little Comments

· 6 January 2004 | 386 words

There have been certain temptations I have managed, by the grace of God, to avoid while writing this web journal. One of them has been not to look at the statistics of visitors to this site. A big part of...

Manual Trackback

· 20 July 2003 | 231 words

'Manual Trackback' is a PHP script that allows an author of a weblog that does not support trackback to manually trackback to my weblog. All this weblog author needs to supply is the title of his or her weblog, the title or date of his or her weblog entry, the entry's URL, and an excerpt. That's it. Then their trackback will be listed among the comments and other trackbacks for my entry with a link pointing back to his or her weblog.

Trackbacks & Comments

· 19 July 2003 | 320 words

To quote Adam Kalsey, "TrackBacks are comments. They are comments left on someone else's site rather than your own, but they are comments nonetheless." So, he wrote a great little plugin for Movable Type called SimpleComments. After a few modifications...

Paragraph & Image Styling

· 18 July 2003 | 863 words

Occassionaly, I want more control over how certain parts of a weblog entry look instead of the default paragraph tag that Movable Type uses. Sometimes I need a paragraph to be centered, or sometimes a footnote. And what about controlling...

New Look

· 18 July 2003 | 137 words

The old CowPi v1.0 Welcome to CowPi Journal, version 2.0, a complete redesign of every Movable Type template, style sheet, module, etc. Nothing was left untouched. The biggest changes include the framing around the content with a color background, the...

Computer Limbo

· 22 June 2003 | 352 words

The proverbial caca hit the computer fan about ten days ago. The first thing to go was the home computer. After attempting to reboot after two power interruptions, the dang thing just seemed to hang on the last step in...

Finding a really good weblog…

· 4 June 2003 | 51 words

Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you have to hunt for them. And when you find one, you savor it.

Archive Structure

· 21 April 2003 | 562 words

I thought I better document some of the things I have done to tweak MovableType for my weblog/journal. Let's start with the archives....

Fun with Weblogs

· 3 April 2003 | 294 words

Here is a short list of fun things to enrich your weblog experience. BlogShares—“a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links.” (Be warned, this will take away some...