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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.
Latest Posts
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MySpace. Why. Just… why…
There seems to have been an explosion in MySpace pages recently. Every man and his dog has got one. In fact, the entire extended family seems to have got one. There’s even a MySpace page for Tom Cruise, Pamela Anderson… in fact, just about any celebrity you can mention. (even Jesus has a page). They’re…
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The Strange Case of the Texas-Chile Conspiracy…
I went round to Matthew‘s last night to do some publicity for the forthcoming mission week at church. We accidentally stumbled across a rather random website. The ‘article’ that we found was called the “Texas-Chile Conspiracy”. Quote: There is a conspiracy going on. Texas and Chile are in it together to take over the world.…
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The Weekend and Lent
So… what have I been up to this weekend? Well, not a whole lot really. On Friday evening, I didn’t do much. On Saturday, I didn’t do much. Yesterday, I went to Church, then came back for lunch, then went to church again in the evening. Then had dinner with Philippa, and we watched a…
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I’ve finally given in…
I tried to resist it for a while, thinking that I didn’t need it. But this morning, I came to realise (upon browsing round to about five or six different websites) that I needed a blog ‘aggregator’ or reader. Basically they’re pieces of software (either that you download or look at on a website) which…
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Dawkins’ God
I received a copy of Dawkins’ God from Amazon yesterday. I’ve read the first couple of chapters, it seems very good! Basically, it’s a critique of the ideas Richard Dawkins has put forward in his books (including “The Selfish Gene” and “The Blind Watchmaker”) — the idea that because of the work which originated with…
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Theocracy
We’ve been having a Discussion on Crossring recently about Dominionism. I don’t want to get into what Dominionism is, but one of the things someone posted today caught my attention. It’s a quote from C.S. Lewis on theocracy: the higher the pretensions of such (uncontrolled) power, the more dangerous I think it both to the…
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The Weekend
So… what did I get up to this weekend? Well. On Friday evening, I didn’t do much at all really. Basically just had the evening in! On Saturday afternoon I went into town with Philippa and did a bit of shopping. Then we had dinner together, and went to Asda in the evening (oh the…
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What would Jesus run?
Zeth’s been updating his Command Line Warriors blog recently, and made an interesting post a couple of days ago: Would Jesus Run OSX on a white box?. It’s an interesting post, worth a read! Anyway, he made a point which I didn’t really agree with, which I just wanted to respond to, so I’ll quote…
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Blog News
Well, a couple of items of blog news, first about mine, and then about someone else’s! Firstly, this blog is now three years old! It started during my second year of university, (in February 2003), and kept going through the trials and tribulations of graduation, unemployment, employment, and (constantly) the boredom of the regular readers.…
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MODx
I’ve been looking around for a CMS which could be used for the Fordham website. I’ve downloaded and installed Joomla!, but that seems really complicated for the type of thing I’m looking for. Matthew suggested to me MODx CMS. It looks pretty good, but what I liked about it was the following: MODx is 100%…