Because it matters

Glyn Moody at Linux Journal reports:

Today is the birthday of Linus. Although that's essentially a private event for him, there's an interesting historical link to the creation of the Linux kernel, too.... To this student loan, Linus added what he termed “Christmas money”. As anyone who has a birthday very near Christmas will tell you, such “Christmas money” almost invariably includes money for the birthday bundled in too, so it's likely that some funds for the PC arrived in the form of birthday presents. Significantly, Linus wasted no time in buying the new computer after Christmas – and hence his birthday. As he told me in 1996: “ I remember the first non-holiday day of the New Year I went to buy a PC.” Read the rest of this entry »

Christmas songs. They may be sweet to our ears, but too many of us don't spend time meditating upon the lyrics, which (in most cases, but not all cases) teach great and true things about how the Word of God became flesh to dwell among us for the work of salvation on the cross. If we can just forget all the "holiday season" things (ie presents, big dinners, eggnog milkshake -- ohhh), and focus on Jesus in these songs, they're just great worship songs that can minister to your hearts. They do for mine! Hallelujah!
What Child is this?

Why lies He in such mean estate
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear; for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce him through,
The cross be borne for me, for you;
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The babe, the son of Mary!

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