On this day in 1773, Captain James Cook first crosses the Antarctic Cicle whilst searching for Terra Australis Incognitia, the fabled Great Southern Continent, which he discovered didn’t actually exist. I’ve just recently acquired a couple books on Cook that I plan to read immediately, mostly because I’m convinced he has something to do with the location of the island in the show Lost. More on that at a later time.

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have just finished reading this and really enjoyed it. It’s a great story about a remarkable man, and the people who hated him, most notably John Calvin, who had him burned at the stake. Servetus was the first man to discover pulminary respiration but that was overlooked during his lifetime as it was a small passage in a much larger heretical work arguing against trinitarianism and the inherent ugliness of Calvinism. The work in question, Christianisimi Restutio, was though so heretical that authorities tried to track down every single copy of the work and destroy it, and according to legend, the ‘last’ copy was chained to Servetus as he burned. Luckily for us, three copies managed to survive the flames, one of which was John Calvin’s own copy.

Ah, a new WordPress 2.0 installation. Working on themes and plug-ins now.

Edit: Slowly but surely converting the current theme to my own Illuminated Manuscript look. Will take a while but I’ll have something rough up by end of business today. Further improvements will take place this coming week with hopefully a final version ready by next weekend. True and pure validation is the goal.

Well, theme is up and running and validating! I managed to locate my old theme files and just had to tweak them a bit.