We watched the film “Blood Diamond” the other night. It was really good! – probably not the kind of film you want to watch a lot though, because it was quite harrowing in places. The film focusses on Solomon Vandy, a man who gets caught up in the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999.…

Ok, that title made no sense, other than the fact that I want to mention sox: (if you don’t know what sox is, you can probably skip this post). I use it in a script to upload CDs to Fordham. However, when I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.02, it seemed to stop working – it kept…

I mentioned in a previous post the debate held between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath. To be completely honest, I think Christopher Hitchens presented the more persuasive arguments – I think McGrath is more of a preacher and a writer than a debater! I just came across a series of letters (well, emails) between Christopher…

I got a statement through from the Student Loans Company the other day. Apparently, during the period between April 2007-March 2008, I’d paid off £32. I’d also accrued £190 worth of interest! What the heck?!!! I know I’ve been paying my student loan off every month, much to my chagrin – seeing over £100 of…

This weekend was fairly pleasant! We helped out at ’21’ on Friday evening, which went well. On Saturday morning I popped into town to get a few bits and pieces, and then in the afternoon we went round to Anne-Marie’s to watch Doctor Who. I thought this week’s episode was really good (again!) – Russell…

I’ve finally got around to finishing my article on the third commandment! It’s up on FocusOnFaith – you can read it here.

We had quite a nice weekend this week! On Friday evening we went to see “Moths Ate my Doctor Who Scarf” in Chelmsford. It was really good, Tony Hadoke was very funny and did a great job at not isolating anyone who hadn’t watched every episode of Doctor Who about 80 times (not even A-M…

There’s a new study out which shows a link between IQ and atheism: the higher the IQ you have, the higher the chance that you are an atheist. The implication a lot of people seem to be drawing from this is that “Religion makes people thick”, or, “only thick people believe in God” (see the…

My copy of Coldplay’s new album “Viva La Vida” arrived yesterday. I’ve listened to it a couple of times now, and it’s fantastic! I would say this is probably their best album yet. They’ve been a bit more experimental in this one with the way they’ve arranged the music – it feels like a more…

I mentioned lolcode last month. This month, I’ve found something which is possibly even worse. Prepare yourselves for… The Lolcat Bible! Here are a few samples: Nao faithz an hoepz an luvz r hear, theses threes, but teh bestest iz teh luv. srsly. [1 Corinthians 13:13] n im telln u, cuz Ceiling Cat pwns, u…