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No one knows what day Jesus Christ was born on. From the biblical description, most historians believe that his birth probably occurred in September, approximately six months after Passover. One thing they agree on is that it is very unlikely that Jesus was born in December, since the bible records shepherds tending their sheep in the fields on that night. This is quite unlikely to have happened during a cold Judean winter. So why do we celebrate Christ’s birthday as Christmas, on December the 25th?

Christmas’ pagan origins

Have a happy heathen Christmas, everyone

Getting this blog started hasn’t been without its problems. I screwed up the files/folders permissions a few times and messed around with WordPress stuff that I maybe shouldn’t have. But the main headache is my FTP access. It sucks. It sucks big time! And the network support staff at my ISP don’t seem to be able to find anything wrong. I can establish about 1 connection out of 10. I can use ssh and telnet to get into my account without any problems though. And when I finally get a connection then the transfer rates are practically zero. I hope they get it sorted soon.

The good news is that my domain has finally been re-directed to my blog’s webspace. About time that I set it to some use.

I also replaced the header image courtesy of Plastic Jesus and Creative Commons license. Talking about CC, I decided to make the contents of this blog available under a by-nc-sa license. Not that there’s much to license yet

Well, my blog’s up and running. It was actually surprisingly easy to set up once I got the file permissions right. Now off to do some tweaking and customising.