Jeremy Clarkson has written an article entitled “Unhand my patio heater, archbishop”, in which he responds to a sermon by Archbishop Rowan Williams talking about global warming. The gist of his argument is basically that religion has killed far many more people than global warming ever has, and so we should give up religion rather…

Zeth has blogged his predictions for 2008. I thought that I would post up a reply here, rather than leaving a comment! There are a few of his predictions I wanted to challenge (so, when January 2009 comes round, I can either have egg on my face or, preferably, point and say “I told you…

Firstly, let me just wish all my readers a happy new year (if I have not already done so in person)! Our new year began well – more on that later. We had a really nice Christmas break. On Christmas Eve, we went to the carol service at Fordham, which was absolutely packed! It’s been…

Well, it’s been a fairly busy weekend – once again! I think December is just a fairly busy month, what with Christmas and everything… We basically spent the weekend doing a bit of last-minute Christmas shopping (for wrapping paper!), wrapping up presents, and generally preparing for Christmas. There’s a carol service at Fordham tonight, and…

Well, I’ve finally managed to get desktop effects (Compiz) working on Ubuntu Gutsy! I’ve been having problems for a while – I’m not sure why, could be a number of things… each time I tried to enable the desktop effects, it just came up with a message about not being able to enable them! Enabling…

I came across this quote recently: We in the Orthodox church regard all religions as being an indication of God’s graciousness to mankind. (Father Gregory Hallam, being interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme last Sunday, found via Dave Walker’s Blog) And it got me thinking. I’ve been re-reading “What’s So Amazing About Grace?”…

Well, I heard today that Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 Test. In case you’re not aware, the Acid2 test is a website which is designed to test capabilities of the browser to determine whether it is fully compliant with certain web standards. This is a highly significant milestone for any web developer —…

… “I don’t know who she is, but she really packs ’em in!” So goes the old (cartoon) joke, where the above line is spoken looking at a poster outside a church for ‘Carol Singers’. I expect you can now guess what we were doing this weekend! On Friday evening we had a practice for…

I started piano lessons when I was about 12 or 13 years of age. I did grades, up to Grade 4 – which I scraped through in December, 2000. Suffice it to say, I didn’t really practice that much! I should take a moment to explain that if you don’t know much about the ABRSM…

In case you hadn’t realised, Jesus is actually on Facebook! This article explains… [Warning: Article may contain humour]