Entries from December 2006
Songs for the Christmas Period
December 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Since my discovery (through the following of a link at Andys Site) I found allofmp3.com, you can read more about that here but after my first frenzied experience of cheap music, I got broke over the month, combined with allofmp3′s payement methods coming on and offline, to the point where I almost went to sign up for [...]
Tags: Entertainment · Music
Some Hat Tips
December 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Jonny Baker flagged some cool stuff which he Hat tipped Dave for, so I now hat tip them both and flag up some cool and useful sites The Flickr tools in my last post are fun to play around with over Christmas, Also, make your own wrapping paper here through your flickr site, xpapr London [...]
Tags: Hat Tips
Flickr Tools
December 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
I just found this great toy set for flickr photos at bighugelabs.com/flickr HT: Dave Smith Check this neat automade widget The Big Huge Labs has too many cool toys and widgets to mention to if you have a flickr account, or even if you dont go over there and check it out Particularly cool [...]
Ten things with a “P”
December 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments
Yes indeed, this is maybe what you would expect on a teenagers myspace or even bebo, but it seems it is the season to be a little festive and blog these meme’s: 10 things beginning with… Here’s how it works: You write about ten things (or I took it to include people or places too, [...]
Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · My Life
Movies for the Christmas period
December 21st, 2006 · Comments Off
I enjoyed reading Andy’s lo-down on the Sacha Baron Movie BORAT, as I was meant to see it with some friends but then we chickened out and saw something a little more safe! In the spirit of passing a Christmas movie lo-down, last night I (not by choice really!) went to see Eragon with the [...]
Tags: Entertainment
The Church in the Global South: Cultural contrasts in Christian Practise
December 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
This difference in perspective for Christians living in the global south (eg. Africa, Asia, South America) is not one that I have not recognised in the past but I have never read anything of substance and this concise well written interview with Philip Jenkins in Christianity Today, makes some very interesting observations. You should read it for [...]
Tags: Church · The World · Theology Thoughts
Designed in California, Made in China
December 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
I was sorting through some of the uncatergorised posts imported through blogger today, and I realised that maybe uncatergorised is the best description they could have! I stumbled across this old post: Some thoughts on Western Lifestyle (read consumerism) at 20 to 2am and I thought it was interesting enough to visit it at a more [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Justice · Theology Thoughts
John Mayer Pre-release and other music news
December 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
I just spotted a pre-release EP from John Mayer called "The Village Sessions" seemingly acoustic versions of some of the tunes on his latest studion album Continuum, which is fast becoming my album of the month. At first I agreed with Rachel that the sound of Continuum was a little depressingly introspective but with [...]
Tags: Music
Now you see me, now you dont
December 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
All these very proffesional blogger guys say, Hey look out Im going on Holiday or the really cool ones blog WHILE on holiday! Well I am decidedly not a proffesional blogger guy…despite the kind comments of my pacific islander friend John, and I just went away for a week and said nothing! I also noticed [...]
A Plumber can’t fix Niagra Falls
December 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment
This post (as many) from Jim Martin brought me some Freedom today, which I think is the fruit of something imparted by the Holy Spirit. I Hope it speaks to you today in someway, and so I post the link here "This isnt fun anymore" The last few posts of Jim’s inspired by the Ragamuffin [...]
Tags: Christian Living
