About
About βλόγος
Established in 2003 by Joey Day, βλόγος is an exercise in critical thinking and writing about Christian theology, apologetics, information technology, user interface/interaction design, free and open source software and media, and other topics.
The title is a Greek approximation of the English word “blog”. It can be transliterated from the Greek alphabet to the Latin alphabet as blogos. When pronouncing it, both vowels are short (“ah”, not “oh”) and the final consonant is hard (“ss”, not “z”). It is a play on the Greek word λόγος (logos), which literally means “a word,” but, for its fuller meaning in philosophy and Christian theology, see Wikipedia › Logos.
About the author
Joey Day is a thirty-something IT professional (read: big nerd) living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s been car-lite since December 2006, semi-vegetarian since June 2008, and paper-free since November 2008. When he grows up he’d like to be a Seminary professor (read: even bigger nerd).
Joey’s been designing websites since 1998, and has been passionate about web standards and open source software since 2003. In 2008 he got a MacBook and an iPhone, and since then he’s become somewhat of an Apple fanboy. He still runs Ubuntu Linux on a home server, though, and continues to use and support many other free and open source software projects such as Drupal, Firefox, MediaWiki, OpenOffice.org, and WordPress.
Though he was raised a sixth-generation member and completed a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joey left the LDS faith in 2002 and now considers himself a reformed protestant Christian. Sometimes he writes about Mormonism, but he tries his best to treat the subject with candor and fairness. If anything on this site offends you, you are encouraged to let him know.
Perhaps Joey’s one claim to fame is that he created the Homestar Runner Wiki (though he has very little to do with its management these days besides handling the finances). He’s also a co-founder of FellowSites, a not-for-profit web hosting co-operative, and the developer of the LDS Linker plugin for WordPress. 