Entries from November 2007
Some news before the weekend
November 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
A few things which caught my interest today which you can peruse for the weekend: 1) Its an old story but here are 15 interesting points as to why facebook is so sucessful, and worth so much BBC News - There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to social networking sites and facebook in [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World
Blogging – a noble pursuit?
November 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
"There is something noble and great about writing. Writing forces you to decide what you think and what you believe. Writing also helps others to decide what they think and believe – through their agreement or disagreement with what you said." – Fighting to Stay Awake (Shawn Blanc’s post below is excellent and can be [...]
Tags: Blogging
GDrive – Google online file storage
November 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
Could this be the final element in cementing the web 2.0 era, the move from desktop based applications to online ones. These days arguably there is much more a trend of web based development instead of desktop based, and the interaction lines are being continually blurred. Essentially what google are proposing seems to be much [...]
Tags: Technology · Web 2.0
Behind the hype of the iPhone
November 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I first got my hands on an iphone about a month before they cam out in the UK, not because Im some technology guru who apple felt the need to run it past me before going to the shops, but because I happened across some travelling americans who had one and let me play (and [...]
Tags: Apple · Technology
Im selling stuff for Christmas
November 29th, 2007 · Comments Off
With all the buying this season requires I have thrown some of the stuff that is sitting around my house and I don’t use or don’t remember where it came from and is not mine on ebay to boost those Christmas funds. Feel free to take a browse: ebay stuff for sale
Tags: My Life
Political History repeating itself?
November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off
Today I was reading about the continued scandal of dodgy funding for labour leadership campaigns, and couldn’t but see that in a very macro sense how much we’ve been here before. A Big Charasmatic leader(1) who brings renewal to their political party(2) and hangs on to power for the best part of a decade only [...]
Tags: The World
Adele – Hometown Glory
November 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: Music
The truth of the OS matter
November 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Apple · Technology
Stem Cells – Ethical as well as scientific breakthrough?
November 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
While dipping my toe into the water of stem cell ethics, and wrestling (only shortly) with my own thoughts on the matter, a huge transition has been announced this week (which I picked up from my weekly newspaper read at Church) which takes the ethical issue out of its familiar context. Essentially (and in hidiously simplistic, [...]
Tags: Technology · The World · Theology Thoughts
Blogging Bishop faves Byrnes
November 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
While Favouriting some blogs on technorati I discovered the only people who have "faved" my blog on technorati are me (what a loser) and the Bishop of Buckingham no kidding, check it out here, joking aside he does have the best looking blog of all the blogging bishops Ive seen! (Now theres a compliment you don’t [...]
Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous
