Had my work Christmas meal at lunchtime yesterday. We have our Christmas Eve carol service at Fordham tonight. I feel like Christmas has finally arrived! Aaanyway. I hope that you all have a lovely Christmas this year, and do spend some time reflecting on the Christmas story. Remember, despite all the cute pictures of Joseph…

Well, we had the final wedding of 2008 yesterday. It went well! It was a civil ceremony at Vaulty Manor near Witham, followed by a reception there. Very nice ‘service’ (not sure if you can call a civil ceremony a ‘service’ but still), followed by a delicious dinner (great beef), followed by me DJing. Ah,…

It’s been my experience that a lot of people who work in the IT and general technology sector are atheists. For example, The Register seems to adopt a fairly passive anti-religious tone in its articles (and a lot of the commenters follow suit, except they are usually less passive). In technological circles particularly, bashing religion…

On my post about confirmation (amongst other things), Matthew asked about my reasons for getting confirmed given my Baptist / FIEC background. The short answer really is – there’s not actually a spiritual reason! I feel like over the past few months God has been pushing me towards ministry. Possibly ministry in the Anglican church,…

At Gift List Central, we’ve been setting up a few cron jobs – which are basically scheduled jobs that run at intervals you specify. So, for example, we have a job which runs daily to deactivate gift lists which have passed their due date. Because we have cPanel, we are able to set up cron…

Sorry about the lack of updates recently, it’s been a bit busy! This weekend was no exception. On Friday we had the 21 Christmas Party, which went well. Then on Saturday Phil was playing at a wedding at midday, so I met up with Chris I and his friend Eleanor in town for lunch, and…

Two things which made me think “EPIC WIN” (It’s kind of the opposite of “EPIC FAIL”, not sure whether it’s valid but still). Firstly, Video Game Music Themes (sheet music). Check out the Mario themes – I’ve been playing the overworld theme from Mario 1 on the NES! I remember that from years ago, it’s…

So, this is just a quick precis of the weekend: – 21 on Friday night, followed by “The IT Crowd” (again, very good this week) – Down to Phil’s parents on Saturday, had good time – Back to Fordham on Sunday morning for the Advent service – Rest of the day spent not doing very…

Murphy’s Law is basically “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. Or, more generally, it’s all about irony. For example, if you haven’t prepared for some eventuality, it will happen. (Well, I suppose that’s more being unlucky than ironic, but still). I had a great example of it recently. T-Mobile had been making things…

This weekend, Philippa was away from Friday night until Saturday evening. So, on Friday evening I watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, which I’ve been meaning to watch for ages but haven’t got around to it. It was a great film – I can see why it got about five oscars in one year!…