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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.

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  • Eating ham and jam and spamalot…

    Last week, I had a ham sandwich. I also had some jam with my toast for breakfast one day. On Saturday, I went to see “Spamalot” (do you like the way I linked that in there? 😉 ) In order to celebrate Jon B’s birthday, a bunch of us met up on Saturday morning and…

  • MODx NewsListing

    I mentioned the other day that I was looking at different content management systems for the Fordham Church website. I’ve decided to stick with MODx because I already know it, and it would take ages to migrate everything over to another system! I’ve used the NewsListing snippet to generate a News page, and I’ve created…

  • Thoughts on the Cross

    I mentioned a while ago (for example, here) that I was reading a few books about the cross. I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned it much on this blog before, but basically the reason I’ve been reading about the cross is because of the various different views on Jesus’ death I have come across recently.…

  • Content Management Dilemma

    As some of you may know, I am the webmaster for the Fordham Church website. It is currently using the MODx CMS. I quite like it – it’s quite flexible, easy to edit, and customising the look and feel is very easy. However, it does have one drawback: the pages are all fairly static in…

  • Run, Fatboy, Run!

    As usual I’ve left it too late after the weekend and I can’t actually remember much of what I did last weekend. On Friday evening we didn’t really do much… on Saturday, Philippa’s parents and her aunt & uncle (who live in Australia) came round for the day. It was really nice to see them.…

  • Burglary and avoiding detection 101

    Rule Number One: When committing a burglary, DO NOT sign your name at the scene of the crime… See this article for more info.

  • Busy weekend!

    This weekend was quite a busy one! On Friday afternoon, Andy C gave me a ring to say that he was in town for his sister’s wedding, so in the evening Philippa and I met up with Andy and his girlfriend (Rika, I hope that’s how you spell it!) and went for a few drinks…

  • Bizarre search terms people find your website from

    On my web hosting package, I’ve got a stats program which lets me know what search terms people are using to find this website. Some of them are fairly understandable. Some of them are just bizarre! Here’s a selection: facebook uploader torchwood scripts (remember, I have no torchwood scripts…) extreme canoeing christian song lyrics changing…

  • Forgot to mention…

    The IT Crowd is back! Last Friday night, Alex came round for dinner and afterwards we all watched the first episode of the second series of “The IT Crowd”. It was absolutely fantastic – we laughed a lot during the episode! The second half was particularly good… Anyway, if you liked the original series of…

  • Photos update

    Well, all my photos have now been transferred to Flickr — if you want to see them you have to visit my Flickr page. I have to say, in comparison with Yahoo! Photos it’s much better… it’s a really well thought-out interface, with plenty of features. The next step is to see about getting some…