Sunday, January 30, 2005

What I Was Getting To " Way back when I posted twice about marriage, I was preparing a general case about the texture of Christian marriage as a particular sacramental institution. I proposed a variety of ways of thinking about Christian marriage, noting that a strictly biblical version of Christian marriage (hence, a version defined by marriage as the New Testament represents it) begins with indissolubility, exclusive duality, constitutive gender complementarity, and the subordination of women to men. Add to that the long-standing tradition that sexual expression in marriage serves solely procreative ends, and you can get a plausible picture of “traditional Christian marriage.” " Thus begins a thought provoking piece by AKMA (they usually are) on marriage. (Via AKMA’s Random Thoughts.) 8:01:40 PM     trackback []

Quote of Note: Mike Stagg Quote of Note: Mike Stagg: ""Whoever builds a fiber to the home network is going to have a monopoly - whoever builds it. As a practical matter, I am opposed to monopolies. But I would much rather have a monopoly that I can touch and see and feel and affect, which is [Lafayette, Louisiana municipal utility operator] LUS." Mike Stagg, co-perpetrator of the Lafayette Pro-fiber blog, quoted here." (Via isen.blog.) 8:01:31 PM     trackback []

Network Intelligence Jonathan Schwartz's Network Intelligence does a nice job of capturing a the current state of the world for distributed data gathering and aggregation via the 'Net, blogs, cellphones, etc. Better yet, it gives a sense of the speed of change. The key here is obviously the network. It's one thing to create or capture some data or an idea, its another for it to be shared so easily. This is why blogs and wikis are so new and different. 8:01:23 PM     trackback []

Costs of FTTH David Isenberg has a nice summary of the cost of fiber to the home (FTTH). "What can be said accurately and confidently is that under any reasonable estimate for construction costs and take rates, FTTH can be had for capex in the low thousands per installation. " (Via isen.blog.) 8:01:13 PM     trackback []