Byrnesys Blabberings

Probably the first of its kind in the UK, Worship Central, a really superb ministry from Holy Trinity Brompton, has worked with Kings College London to produce an MA in contemporary worship.

 

 

 

Tearfund have begun publishing Daily prayer podcasts, though somehow whilst moving house last week I lost my iPod!

Trevin Wax writes well on the subject of being ecumenical.

A new free (ish) UK service called freesat is being launched which offers digital HD broadcasting and a good number of channels, even to those areas (like up here in the depths of Scotland) where you can’t get freeview.

Had I not recently broken my canon SD300 I would be doing this in a second, lifehacker have featured free software which you can load onto your point and shoot canon through the memory card to use functions (like RAW files) that normally would require you to spend £600+ on a DSLR. Lifehacker have a good how-to and screenshots.

More excitement from the new 3G iPhone release, Mac Rumours picked up an internal memo from AT&T which asked workers not to take holidays between certain dates in June and July due to them expecting "heavier than normal customer traffic". Also Steve Jobs has lined up a keynote for June 9th. As exciting as it all is, the 3G release of the iPhone is a little like knowing what your christmas present is in August, there is no buzz and no surprises in keynotes these days, sigh.

Though not much of a gamer the playstation website released screenshots of how they were recreating inner city London for the game, it is really quite incredible!

TSK links to the first review of the new narnia movie (out in the UK in July I think). The reviewer Bob Beltz makes a good point: "The release of Prince Caspian provides another opportunity for churches and ministries to utilize a resource that cost nearly $200 million dollars to produce.  The awareness of the general public about the film is at the 95% level, which means almost anyone you talk to knows about the film.  Go use it for the kingdom!"

EatBible gives some commendable tips on how not to waste your summer if you are a student, I especially recomment the first two, and would add, travel and enjoy life.

John Piper encourages you to find people interesting, I can definatly Identify with this, I can only effectively evangelise when I choose to take interest and invest in them, trying to ‘take scalps’ never works.

A great story of how a mac store employee used a remote desktop connection to take a photo of the thief who’d stolen her mac!

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If you dont want to spend your hard earned money on Microsoft Office then Open Office have just released a native Mac version of their freeware office suite. 

Abraham Piper makes an excellent point for all bosses: "You simply can’t pay committed employees commensurately. So treat them like they’re doing you a favor, not like they owe you something."

Jim Martin writes excellently on how to live in the present moment instead of constantly looking back, or indeed forward as I spend much of my time doing. Jim also introduced the great idea of ‘easing’ to places, I think its something Ill try and use.

Inhabitatio Dei has a great post on Mark Driscoll called ‘Who Can Mark Driscoll Worship‘ which articulates a lot of my recent thoughts on the whole Christian masculinity movement. Especially like this quote: ‘His Jesus is a kaleidoscopic amalgamation of Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, and a cadre of mixed martial-arts welterweight champions. If Jesus is not an ass-kicking man’s man who changes his own oil, wins bar fights, and ropes cattle, he certainly is not worthy of Driscoll’s worship.’

 The Cans Festival of Banksyesque stencil art is now on at London’s Leake by name, leake by nature, street, there is a pretty good flickr tag here which encompasses peoples photos from the exhibition. I have always quietly enjoyed the subversive nature of this kind of art, but read an interesting blog from the Guardian about how it has become everything it stood against?

Blackberry Bold is out in the open and I cant wait to get my hands on it, once the curve is due for an upgrade, which maybe a while yet. The specs are pretty fancy too, HSPDA, more processor power than my first desktop cimputer, 1GB of disk space, GPS photo geotagging, get the full info from crackberry who bought a pre-release off of ebay for about $800!

A new book about Zizek and Theology should make for an interesting read, somehow Amazon can sell it for cheaper than the publishers and for the first time in History Abebooks isn’t the cheapest place to pick it up.

And That is the marathon which is mid week round up over, free ice cream to the person who has the best suggestion as to how to ‘condense’ these round ups, is there some excess fat I could trim? What type of stories do you just flick past?