There seems to be a lot of fuss at the moment around the X-Factor. I don’t know if you’ve seen the Facebook group Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1, it’s basically reacting against the whole X-Factor winner having a Christmas no. 1 every year. I do applaud the effort of the group –…

I’m getting very slack – it’s now Wednesday and I haven’t updated with a usual weekend style update. Well, if you’re lucky, I might toss in some news of what we’ve been up to mid-week :p Anyway. Friday night – 21 as usual. Saturday – I spent most of the day preparing for Sunday morning.…

Just in case you are interested, my sermon from this morning on Ephesians 6:18-20 (on prayer) is up and available on the Fordham website (note: direct link to MP3) I think it went pretty well, had a lot of positive comments about it afterwards, but obviously I still need a lot of practice! Had a…

This weekend was a pretty standard weekend – did a talk on the Good Samaritan at 21 on Friday, did some shopping on Saturday, church on Sunday etc. The main thing different was that we went to St Botolph’s to see Haydn’s Creation. It was great – the orchestra, choir and soloists all performed well!…

Now that I’ve been using Windows 7 for a couple of weeks, I thought it would be a good time to write up a couple of thoughts that I have. The thoughts are overwhelming positive so far. In fact, to be honest I don’t have a single bad word to say about Windows 7! (Shock!!…

Just realised I haven’t updated this blog with a customary “weekend” style post! Although – not very much happened this weekend. We went to 21 on Friday night, wherein I sprained my ankle when playing a game. I was resting for most of Saturday! I did watch “West Side Story” in the evening which was…

As per my usual habit of combining two completely unrelated topics in one blog post, I’ve decided to talk about two things today. Firstly, politeness. I’ve noticed a couple of examples of things recently which seem polite but, on reflection, perhaps are not. The first thing is, holding doors open. The general idea being that…

This weekend was pretty busy, but it felt longer because we had Friday afternoon off. The reason? We were going to see Muse at the O2 🙂 We left mid afternoon and got there in good time. We got free entry into the British Music Exhibition with our tickets, so we had a quick look…

Yesterday my new Zoom G1XN arrived. For those of you who aren’t into guitars, it’s basically an effects pedal that gives you a whole load of options for how you want your guitar to sound – heavily overdriven, reverb, delay, chorus, modulation, compression – that sort of thing. Anyway, it’s really good fun. I had…

A year after migrating to Linux, I wrote: But what I wanted to say is: would I ever go back to Windows? Never. I’m experienced the power of the Open-Source side, and I have to say I am a convert! Well, guess what? I’m going back to Windows! As you will probably know if you…