Thinking Christian

If you’ve used the contact page to try to reach me in the last two weeks, please go there and try again. I just found out it hasn’t been working; I haven’t been receiving messages sent from there lately. The current configuration is fine.

Joe Carter linked to Could a layperson land a jumbo jet? from his ever-fascinatin’ “Thirty-Three Things” feature. It caught my eye because although as it says, it’s unlikely an untrained person could land a big jet, it has happened with smaller planes. My cousin Wayne was part of making one such landing happen. The husband …

If you’re reading this, the server upgrade I have been working on is complete, thanks to the help of a very gracious new friend, Dennis, in Samoa, who worked long hours on it. I knew it was unwise to count on it going at the fastest possible speed. A long power outage in Samoa slowed …

Finished and running now. Comments are enabled again. Many thanks to Dennis in Samoa, working around power outages and other more arcane technical issues to make it happen. My last attempt to upgrade the server where Thinking Christian is hosted didn’t work out. I’m about to give it another go. In a short while from …

The “recent comments” feature is back in the sidebar. The blog upgrade I have been waiting to accomplish is stalled again for reasons beyond my control, but I’m hoping this vital function can remain regardless.

If you tried to comment here in the last 18 hours or so, you know that I had a blog upgrade in process and that comments were closed for the duration. The upgrade has had to be postponed for a couple weeks. Comments are now open again. Thanks for your patience.

The web host for this blog was down for almost an hour earlier today. My apologies to you for that. I’m still working on moving toward an upgraded hosting system.

Something is causing “CPU Throttling” (sounds awful, doesn’t it?) on the blog today, which is slowing down page load times badly, at least from where I am. I apologize for those delays. I am working with another website host to upgrade this blog’s hosting sometime very soon. In the meantime I am stripping down as …

I’ve just added this blog to the Kindle store, as a convenience for anyone who prefers to read it that way. The subscription is $1.99/month—a price that Amazon sets, not me—with a 14-day trial period for new subscriptions. I’ve also snuck a link in over at the sidebar for an item I’ll be announcing for …

To help speed up page load times I’m about to permanently disable one of these: either comment previewing or comment editing. What’s your preference?