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Entries from November 2007

Back from the library

November 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Im back! Yes ethical debate swallowed me alive for several days but now I am back (covered presumably i some form of moral gunk) in the real world where I dont spend 17 hour days working….for now.

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Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life

You wont be seeing much of me

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off

…hopefully, because I have a big ole deadline at the end of this week, so for all of you that do, please pray that Ill keep a healthy balanced stress this week that will motivate me into being productive. I will be doing my morning coffee break RSS browse so if you want to see whats new [...]

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Tags: Blogging · My Life

An Authentic Evangelism Pt.2

November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off

Part One here Another necessary shift is recognizing that the old metrics of success may no longer apply. Wilkerson says, “We need to spend the next ten years investing in the life of our surrounding community and finding ways to regain a hearing for the gospel. Instead of going to the nursing home and holding [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts

Half Price Apple Displays

November 16th, 2007 · Comments Off

If you love most (ok, all) things all things apple you wont have missed the beautiful and highly regarded displays they make, in my all too constant state of designing the perfect mac setup in my head (and yes in the configure your own mac section of the apple store) I have looked at the [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

Shift+F3

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

I discovered a wonderous shortcut today: Hold Shift (the button normally below caps lock on your left) and press F3 whilst highlighting a line or word in Microsoft Word (and possibly other software too) and it switches the case For example if you have DAILY REPORT and you want to take the case down from [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Technology

Coffee Tips

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

I have been experimenting with a few new brands of coffee recently and I thought I would share my thoughts, I first tried a few of the store brand coffees which were good whilst I was on a budget but more recently Ive wanted to try and support some of the smaller and explicitly fair [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life

Street Painting

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

 I always loved seeing pavement chalk artists partly I think because as a kid I was mesmerised by the vision of Dick can dyke jumping into another world through his in Mary Poppins! Ive never seen it done here in Aberdeen, which is probably more a comment on the weather and the propensity to rain [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Out of Context Flickr

November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off

sep 07 087 Originally uploaded by Lloyd Davis This headline makes complete sense to me, and thats because I come from the place where the "west briton" is published Cornwall (SW England) but out of context this is just hilarious! note: NHS – National Health Service, Its too funny out of context to tell you [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

List of 100 – Divine Wisdom?

November 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the church tradition that I have been involved in throughout most of my life there has been a largely unmentioned but prevalent way to get vision, direction, or a plan, and that is the "idea from above!" Now I certainly dont want to seem to cynical about all of this, and before I get [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Miscellaneous

Understanding the Nerds

November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off

Everyone knows one, and many of you will be one, to a greater and lesser extent. I read this (short) essay "The Nerds Handbook" at Rands in repose which will be great resource for anyone seeking to understand your pale friend who sits on his computer all day. Quite Seriously though, I recognised a few [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · Technology