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ZCC Exposed Archive

This information about the “Zion Christian Church” in South Africa left the internet a few years ago. It is reproduced here in one very long page, with (likely broken) links to web.archive.org. Content belongs to the original authors. Layout and … Continue reading

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Justice denied by creative remedies

South Africa has a crime problem of note, and the ANC government together with the former National Party government is 100% guilty of it. It is not so much that the laws are wrong (they are), or that the police … Continue reading

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Python for bash users: 1 minute introduction

If you can do something interesting in bash, then here’s how you do it in python. Suppose you have this interesting bash thing… …and you want to do some crazy python thing on it. Here’s how you do it: And … Continue reading

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The Holy City, Jerusalem – just not in Afrikaans, please

Gé Korsten popularised an Afrikaans translation of Fred­er­ic E. Wea­ther­ly’s “The Holy City” (1892). This is a song that, in its original, is filled from end to end with allusions to scripture. It is about the joy of Jerusalem of … Continue reading

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Jeremiah 52 vs 2 Kings 25 compared

The end of Jeremiah (52:1-34) and the end of 2 Kings (2 Kings 24:18-25:30) are almost word-for-word identical. Here is a comparison done with wdiff. You can see that one of the very first differences is the question about the … Continue reading

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Soteriology in flow charts

An important distinction among Christians (and Christians falsely so called) is what exactly they believe has to be done to be saved. People who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, who died … Continue reading

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2023: ABRSM theory exams are impossible

For the Covid scam, music theory examinations by ABRSM switched from in-person invigilated to remote computer-invigilation. The price didn’t go down though – the tests were horrendously expensive, and the price just went up, if anything. There’s a small problem … Continue reading

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Last_IO_Errno: 1595 “Relay log write failure: could not queue event from master”

The disk filled up on a mysql master database because of a few 80Gb queries being written to the mysql bin logs (somehow it couldn’t handle them). The fix on the master was to have more disk space. The fix … Continue reading

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EPSON ink tank printers are a ripoff

Bricking a perfectly good printer EPSON ink tank printers are a ripoff. The particular printer that irked me is the Epson L382, but they are all a ripoff. The promise of ink tank printers is that you buy the printer … Continue reading

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Thanks, but no thanks, BibleProtector.com

Matthew Verschuur of Australia has undertaken to prepare a definitive copy of the “Cambridge Edition” of the KJV circa 1900, which he calls the “Pure Cambridge Edition” (PCE). He has taken time to check punctuation and capitalisation and spelling against … Continue reading

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