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The weekly iPod shuffle

Fr. Jim Tucker is away for a couple weeks and it looks like he will not be doing his weekly call out for an iPod shuffle. In Fr. Jim’s honor, I’ll carry on.

  1. Zakwitła rutka —“ Promni, A witajcie przyjaciele
  2. Dance Away —“ Roxette, Look Sharp!
  3. Don’t Ask Me No Questions —“ Lynyrd Skynyrd, Second Helping
  4. Katmandu —“ Bob Seger, Beautiful Loser
  5. Venite, exultemus Domino —“ Taizé, Venite Exultemus
  6. La Grange —“ ZZ Top, The Best of ZZ Top
  7. Desbocado – Bruno Battisti D´Amario, Samba para Ti & More
  8. Take Me —“ George Jones & Tammy Wynette, Love Songs
  9. O Holy Night —“ Sufjan Stevens, Hark! Songs for Christmas
  10. Na Końcu Mapy —“ Pod Budą, Kraków, Piwna 7

As Fr. Jim would say:

The rules, for bloggers who want to play: Get your iPod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel! Maybe link the songs to online music stores for readers’ convenience.

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He was never one of us anyway

The Pontificator comments on Rob Dreher in When a Catholic leaves the Catholic Church and says the following:

In light of Dreher’s departure from the Catholic Church, I only have only one question: Was he in fact a Catholic?

…and

I regret that he has left the Catholic Church, and I grieve the sins of the Church that led him to renounce the divine authority of the Vicar of Christ. I pray that I may never be so tested.

So it appears that Catholicism is solely defined by ones’ belief in “the divine authority of the Vicar of Christ” i.e., the Pope, and of course holding up John Henry Newman as an icon of all that is good and holy.

I guess that Fr. Stephen Freeman of Pontifications fame is in grave error, un-catholic, or at best misguided.

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My iPod Shuffle

Here’s this week’s listing as requested by Fr. Jim Tucker in Ipod Shuffle: Random Playlist for the Weekend.

  1. Anything —“ Edyta Gorniak, Live ’99
  2. Werewolves of London —“ Warren Zevon, The Best Of Warren Zevon: A Quiet Normal Life
  3. Psalm 42 —“ Euangelion
  4. Crazy on You —“ Heart, Heart: Greatest Hits
  5. Beggar’s Farm —“ Jethro Tull, The Anniversary Collection
  6. Detox Mansion —“ Warren Zevon, Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon
  7. Kaulana Kawaihae – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Facing Future
  8. Wzburzone fale —“ ks. Bogdan Skowroński, Witaj Panie
  9. Bogdan trzymaj się —“ Bohdan Łazuka, Bohdan Łazuka
  10. You or Me —“ Maanam, The Best of Kora & Maanam
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So much for your hopes

From the Washington Times in Benedict eases Latin Mass limits:

Officials for the Archdiocese of Washington and the dioceses of Arlington and Richmond said that they do not anticipate using the Latin Mass more often because some of their churches already offer it.

So much for allowing priests on the local level to decide for themselves (like that would ever happen).

…and I’d add, for those in Washington D.C., Arlington and Richmond, fill up your tanks. You’ll still be doing the long trek to your nearest Tridentine Rite Holy Mass.

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Readers and their browsers

I use Google Analytics to get insight into what my readers like to read. Also, having a background and degree in Accounting (kind of fitting with being a deacon —“ the managers of charitable donations in the early Church), and a love for analysis, makes me one of those people who likes to look at numbers and trends.

I was looking at the Content Optimization stats for my blog. Under Browser Versions I noticed that 60% of my readers use Firefox (hurray) and 3.2% of those people are using one or another of the Firefox 2.0 browser release candidates.

The next highest group of users (37.35%) use Internet Explorer, and of those, only a little over 1% are using the IE 7.0 Release Candidate.

Knowing what your readers use is good in that it helps you with laying out your site, especially if it’s not a blog site.

As to blogging, WordPress is pretty indestructible across browsers, but there are fluky differences like the way bullet points are laid out or the way the WordPress Dashboard’s layout looks.

I rarely use IE anymore. I’ve just gotten away from using stuff that appears (at least to me) to be bloated and demanding. That’s why I like Firfox. It lets me take control of how I browse. I’m looking forward to Firefox 2.0.

If you blog, do you know what your readers use? Do you think blog readers are early adopters or testers of the latest and greatest? Do you still use IE?

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My iPod Shuffle —“ Part 3

Father Jim Tucker has the next callout for the Ipod Shuffle: Random Playlist for the Weekend.

Here’s mine:

  1. He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands – Loretta Lynn, The Gospel Spirit
  2. Bar na Stawach – Wolna Grupa Bukowina, Słonecznik
  3. Wysławiajcie Panie —“ Taizé, Venite Exultemus
  4. Góral Polka – Dynatones, Vintage Dynatones
  5. Rock`n`roll na dobry początek – Budka Suflera, Za Ostatni Grosz
  6. Doxology —“ Passion Worship Band, Hymns Ancient & Modern
  7. Beautiful Loser —“ Bob Seger, Beautiful Loser
  8. Nuta z Ponidzia – Wolna Grupa Bukowina, Niechaj zabrzmi
  9. Dressed for Success —“ Roxette, Look Sharp!
  10. I Was In The House When The House Burned Down – Warren Zevon, Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon
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Content theft

Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress has written quite a few posts on splogs and other blog content thievery.

Sites such as Bitacle parse through RSS feeds from various blogs and steal their content. You don’t have to be an ‘A list’ blogger for this to happen to you – everyone is vulnerable. The splogs do not link back or trackback to the original site. They do not attribute the work, they just take the content. They then market the content as their own, coupling it with related advertising —“ thus making money for themselves – off your work.

This type of stealing, sometimes called scraping, is becoming more and more common.

Lorelle has various articles on this phenomenon as well as information on WordPress plugins and tools that help in identifying and stopping theft. Check out the following:

While we faith bloggers don’t mind getting the word out, we should be careful as to how our content is used, what ads the content is paired up with, and what comments are made on our posts (yes, sploggers allow people to comment on stolen content). A word of warning is spoken.

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