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Entries from January 2008

The dissapointments of the Macbook Air but what can we expect in the future

January 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

There has been many thoughts that the macbook air has brought in many of the good thing about a ultra-portable such as external optical drive (a feature which seems to be getting a lot of bad press, but Im for it!), 3lb weight, 0.16" thin (at its thinnest) while keeping the relatively large 13" widescreen [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

End of Week round up

January 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have a few posts in the mix but this is me signing off again for the weekend, leaving you with a few commended perusable articles:1) For those of you on the look out for worship music stuff here, mercy me have started a blog, and Im glad to see there not taking themselves too [...]

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Tags: Apple · Blogging · Church · Daily Coffee Reads · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Music · Technology · The World · Theology Thoughts · Worship · politics

Trusting God while Scots Fish in Western Sahara

January 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

I was surprised whilst having "post-exam-quiet-night-in with rachel and television" to see one of the vessels from the western isles (Barra) who has done a little work for us in the past on the TV in the western sahara! It was on the gaelic speaking program Eorpa which you can conveniently view on the bbc’s [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Miscellaneous · The World · politics

Facebook are listening and other miscellany

January 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Its official, facebook has responded to the journalistic and uder feedback moans about the increasingly cluttered format of profile pages after opening their API or some equal source code for 3rd party developers to create apps.So finally there is away of hiding all your friends annoying funwalls/superwalls/nafwalls harah!Also I stumbled over this app which you [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Technology · Web 2.0

Wifi Shirt

January 17th, 2008 · Comments Off

Carrying on the trend of geeky blog posts from the last few days, I found this hilariously geeky t-shirt today, it is an actual wifi signal sensor, and tells you how strong a signal you have!Wi-Fi Signal Status for You and the World! Here at ThinkGeek we’re pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Technology

Electric Guitar Series: Vineyard UK – Love Came Down

January 17th, 2008 · Comments Off

This was a Vineyard UK CD put out from a live recording at hull to commemorate Wilberforce who was the city’s MP and instrumental in the abolition of slavery. What follows is the very essence of guitar geekyness! Below is a picture of the electric set ups for the guitarists: Unfortunatly I’ve had to copy [...]

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Tags: Music · Worship

Charlie Wilson’s War in review

January 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

"In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the [...]

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Tags: Entertainment

MacBook Air: Responses to my concerns

January 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

As a UK blogger I am behind the times on this as it happened in California at 9am, giving stateside (a proportion at least) a day to blog about what they were reading, whereas since about 6pm last night I hadn’t seen a thing. This also gives me the advantage of reading a days worth [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

MacBook Air: Others in the blogosphere commenting

January 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Scot McKnight seems impressed and has taken it upon himself to rename it even!Shawn Blanc has suggested a good review and reviewed reviews!Johnny Baker reveals the iPod was designed in the 60′s! Andrew Jones (TSK) got suitably excited it seems and dressed in job’s apparel for the occasion.

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Tags: Apple · Hat Tips · Technology

MacBook Air: First Impression

January 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

I am swooning over the macbook air, I have a particular attraction for all technological devices small and slim and so when my favourite technology company (Apple for the two of you left guessing) and the thinnest laptop IN THE WORLD are announced in the same sentence I got pretty excited. That was controllably excited, [...]

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Tags: Apple