Why this blog is different.

Welcome.

When blogs were a new thing (circa 2002), I jumped in and created a blog called "Mac OS Prose," a blog where I spouted opinions on Mac OS technology from my experience and expertise in Apple technologies at the time. I soon fell out of updating that blog because there wasn't much to say that a few hundred others weren't saying.

Now, I have a lot to say. First, however, you should know a little about me. I enjoy technology, but I don't (hopefully) allow it to rule my life. And, with my recent conversion to Catholicism, I've re-discovered a new "eye" in looking at all things, from the political, the personal, and the technological.

My purpose here is to talk about the technological things in our lives that strengthen and weaken us as it relates to the spiritual, as well as how ideology is glorified, damned or otherwise affected by our technology. I'm not much into avoiding so-called "touchy" subjects. The truth is the truth, and odds are I won't hesitate in commenting on what's not truthful and what is. Your opinion (or my own) doesn't define what reality (or spirituality) is.

"Christus ex machina" means "Christ from the machine." Basically, everyone else uses "Deus ex machina," and the name fits better for me as a Catholic. Specificity works.

I plan on making this a fun ride, but be warned: I don't subscribe to political correctness. Being a black man, you might think I'll see things more from the liberal point of view than not. You'd be very wrong. The world owes me nothing. As a follower of Christ, I owe the world. And that's just for starters.

The blog's just getting built, so patience while I add essential links to things related to technology and spirituality as I find them.