I pushed out a new verson of Twitter Tools Supr Links a couple of days ago, so I thought I should let you know what it now does. I’ve fixed a few bugs before without pushing the release properly, because I didn’t realise that I had to change the “stable version” in the readme – […]
Or “Banksy Vs Bristol Museum” One of the best days of this summer has involved queuing for three hours in the sun. Seriously! I went with Peet to see the exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery that Banksy has put on. I took quite a few photos – you can see them on Flickr. […]
I’ve been working with kids at school to make music videos as part of our activity week. Most of them brought me CDs to rip the music track off, but a few hadn’t got it with them. So youtube to the rescue! First of all, the “All-in-one video bookmarklet” from 1024k.de to download an flv […]
I managed to get an invitation to the new Stumble Upon beta URL shortening service, su.pr via @tferriss. It is basically like bit.ly or is.gd but with the added bonus of giving data on clicks advice on posting. So I want to integrate it with the blog posting system I have here with WordPress and […]
I’ve had a nagging problem with opening my home folder from the launcher/dock that I use in Ubuntu 9.04 (“Jaunty”), gnome-do. It’s an awesome program that I really miss when I’m on windows at school, it gives so much power and so many shortcuts so easily. Anyway, there’s this silly bug with it on Jaunty […]
I’ve been on a bit of an eBay trip in the last couple of days, so I thought I’d share how I’ve taken the photos for my auctions. Photos are really important on eBay – They’re the only way you’ll see the product before you part with your money, you have to gamble on the […]
I’ve been involved in the Tamworth teachers’ strike today – the big two unions, five secondary schools, of which QEMS was the only one to stay open. the NUT met at QEMS then went down to the Assemby Rooms in the town centre for some speeches and the TV crews. I’m sure you’ll see us […]
I came across Phyllis Tickle in a talk at Mars Hill, where she talked about the idea that she writes about in her book, The Great Emergence. I’ve embedded a video with her trail for the book (which I’ve not yet read, but I’ll summarise her points as I understand them.) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY83MF2HZcU Basically, she takes […]
I discovered Prezi today (via lifehacker) – quite simply the Awesomest Presentations Ever. Capitalisation is necessary. Check out the presentation I knocked up for tomorrow’s twilight staff seminar that I’m leading. [iframe http://prezi.com/36495/view/ 500 375]
At Spring Harvest this year one of the most interesting and helpful talks I’ve listened to has been Roger Sutton on “Preaching is Dead?” He gave an interesting critique of the monologue (in a monologue) and its failures to connect with society and then looked at some of the reasons that it still has relevance for today’s Church.
Here are seventeen ways Roger suggested that we could “save the sermon.”