When I’m preparing for seminars at LST I end up running down all kinds of rabbit holes. I’m also trying to reconcile the historic and often conservative teachings of scripture that I’ve been brought up in with the expanding view of God that I am embracing. My narrow view of the gospel has too be […]
Rest might seem the most ridiculous thing for someone with a two-week-old baby to write about, but Krish Kandiah‘s conversation on facebook and blog post on rest got me thinking. This is an expansion of my comment on his post, perhaps a little more thought through (although with the sleep deprivation…) Firstly, I have to […]
I replaced the screen on Jane’s netbook today after a little accident. Sometimes the screws from a little task like this get chucked in a bowl or left lying on the desk, but today I realised a much better way of keeping track of them all. I cut a strip of wide masking tape and […]
Is love logical or illogical? In my usual, slightly perverse manner I replied ‘Yes’. Love that’s not logical has not been thought through. Love needs to be wrestled with, it engages the whole person. A love that is not logical might be irrational, not thought through, not deep, just a whim, passing. It may be […]
Well, maybe not completely proper typography, there’s still a way to go to have full control over our type, but webfonts are a really good start. When this version of my site was designed I knew I wanted to use the Delicious font for the header and post titles. For the header I could have […]
It seems like everyone in the world is talking about the X Factor results show (at least on my Facebook feed!) BBC News are talking about the millions that Simon Cowell is earning from being paid to make a show that gains him revenue from advertisers so desperate to attach their brands to the new […]
The Elementary theme I have on Ubuntu is beautiful. I now have the right scrollbars on Chromium and I wondered when I’d get OpenOffice fixed. A little google-fu and the inbuilt translator of Chromium dug up a post on Argentinan site Soft-Libre. The solution is really simple, but messes up the theme. DanRabbit is correct […]
Mark chapter 4 is probably titled something like “The Parable of the Sower” in your Bible. If you were German, it would be more likely to be called “the Four Soils”. Preparing for my seminar on Friday, I found some of the commentators want to talk about the four (or six) seeds, rather than where […]
Two Rabbis sat and discussed the Torah for days and weeks and months and years. Years and years passed and they still discussed this one, small, passage of the Torah. It may be said that God has the patience of a saint, but after 20 years of listening to their arguments over this one passage, […]
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) ages ago but never got round to using the restricted drivers. Well, it just worked OK, so I figured leave it. Today I tried them – installation was fine, no problem, and moving the two screens around in the Monitors tool worked fine, except I ended up with the […]