I haven’t really blogged much about this, but Microsoft’s OOXML format is currently on its way to becoming an international standard (i.e., it’s been submitted to the ISO and they have been voting on it recently). For those of you who’ve never heard of OOXML, it’s basically a file format for documents — i.e., when…

… strangely enough, not the Operating System. I’m talking about Ubuntu Coke! I’m not sure why they decided on the name ‘Ubuntu’, given that there’s already a pretty well-known operating system out there with the same name and a moment’s Googling would have easily found it, but still. It seems like Ubuntu Coke is fairly…

Apologies for the lateness of this blog post, what with the long weekend I almost forgot to make an update! We’ve been fairly busy as usual this weekend, but it’s been very enjoyable. On Friday we spent most of the day revising: we have an exam on Saturday for our theology course on the pentateuch.…

I mentioned in my last post that I quite liked The Passion, despite them putting words in Jesus’ mouth on one or two occasions. Well, having watched the third episode this evening, I still think it’s quite good – but I do wish they would stop messing around with Jesus’ words! It seems quite clear…

The BBC are screening a new mini-series called “The Passion“. It’s a four parter, covering the last few days of Jesus’ life. The first part aired on Sunday, but we only got round to watching it yesterday. I didn’t know what to expect – secular films about the life and death of Jesus aren’t always…

One of the annoying things about Facebook is the way it displays photos: at a very low resolution! You can upload photos at full resolution, but with Facebook you can only get a fairly low-res 600×450 (approx) resolution. What I want to know is — why? Why this ridiculous restriction? Every other online photo service…

Hmmm, I’m a bit exhausted after this weekend! It was pretty busy for most of it – although very enjoyable! On Saturday we spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen as one of Phil’s work colleagues and boyfriend were coming round for dinner, and we were preparing all the food. It was worthwhile…

I actually thought the newest couple of Torchwood episodes (‘Something Borrowed’ and the one after) were pretty good. (Note: if you haven’t watched the next episode, this may contain spoilers…) ‘Something borrowed’ did have a few moments which made me think “Hmmmm”, but for the most part they kept it pretty interesting all the way…

On Friday evening, Alex and Elisa came round for pizza and to watch “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Elisa hadn’t seen the Holy Grail before, but she wanted to after going to see Spamalot earlier this year. It’s always good to watch some Python, although I’m not quite sure what she made of the…

I’ve just published a new article on FocusOnFaith entitled “The Ten Commandments, Part One: Context”. As you may gather from the ‘part one’ reference, it is in fact the first of a series — although I haven’t written the other parts of the series yet, so I don’t know exactly how many more there will…