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]

This weekend was a long one for us – we took Friday off work to do some Christmas shopping! It was actually quite a successful day – we managed to get most of our Christmas shopping done, although we do still have a few bits and pieces being delivered (hopefully before Christmas!). On Friday evening…

In a bored moment, I decided to start writing a Battleships game. The bored moment turned into a slightly longer bored moment… and so here it is. It’s fairly easy to play – click on a ship, select whether it should be horizontal / vertical, and then click on your board to add it in.…