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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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%…

And so… what did I get up to this weekend? Well. On Friday evening, Philippa and me went to Ipswich to see my parents, and we stayed overnight. On Saturday, we went into town, and had lunch there. In the evening we had a take-away curry from the Kismet Balti House. It was very nice,…

Firstly, I read that a man attacked police with a digeridoo, and now I read that a nurse attacked a colleague with a frozen fish (a trout, actually, if you’re interested. I always thought frozen trout made better weapons than frozen salmon). The last paragraph of the frozen fish story is fantastic: Jamie Foster, for…

There have been a few articles on The Register recently, talking about Wikipedia. Basically, the argument boils down to this: Wikipedia “fanboys” (did you appreciate the irony of me linking to a Wikipedia article?) argue that Wikipedia is a good thing, because anyone on the internet can edit an entry, and make it better. Wikipedia…