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  • On Safari…

    No, unfortunately, not on Safari in Africa. On Apple’s Safari browser for Windows. Seeing as Matthew wrote a few thoughts on it a couple of days ago, I decided to try it myself, so I’ve just downloaded and installed it. I haven’t really used it much yet, but here are my first impressions: It’s not…

  • Eclipse ADSL and MTU size

    I use Eclipse Internet for my ADSL broadband connection. It’s only been switched on for a few days (since last Wednesday, in fact). It seems to be going well so far – better than my old provider at least (it’s quite a bit faster). The only problem was, sometimes web pages didn’t load up completely…

  • What am I listening to?

    I’ve just signed up for last.fm. This means that, amongst other things, you can see what I’ve just been listening to on my profile. At some point I might put a little “last.fm” box on this site to show the same thing, I don’t know about other people but I find it quite interestnig when…

  • 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…