Byrnesys Blabberings

Jim Martin shared some excellent insights on waiting as a spiritual discipline from Richard Foster.

Halden lists texts to read before you go to seminary, interesting, and vast selection, No time for a summer job with this reading list! Some Commentators weighed in with some others too, firstly Wess Daniels, then in response to that Kyle Bernett adds some more (Kyle’s list is better In my opinion) and finally Andy Rowell. My Advice would be, try and get hold of the course details for the first courses and read the primary and secondary texts.

On Similar lines I noticed Andy Rowell talks about seminary and lists off a few US Seminaries which might be of interest, he concludes by linking to Theologian John Stackhouse’s Blog who makes a compelling case for seminary.

Apparently iTunesU is a good adult learning resources for theology, has anyone used this before?

Scot McKnight calls IVP Dictionaries "one of the finest gifts to the church of this generation", I just picked up Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters for a bargain basement price.

Douglas Knight shares some quotes which illustrate why the Church not be silent about abortion.

NT Wright makes a US TV Appearance.

The Guardian is offering a free Glastonbury Album, good to see yeasayer make an appearance. (HT to Brett for this one)

Engadget got hold of a Blackberry Bold..conclusion: Its OK

LifeHacker features Kumyo free 30GB file storage online…hello mobile iPod backup! If you’re interested in free online file storage, check out some of lifehackers other online file storage picks. I have been using DropBox for a few weeks and give it 11 out of 10.

American Airlines are testing wifi in the air, hopefully it’ll be up and running before Rachel and my 40hr  flight marathon in November.

In an effort to cut the costs Ive been trying to design our wedding invites on photoshop and have suddenly remembered how little I know about it. I dont have time to watch this at the moment but apparently here is a very useful and quick photoshop tutorial  101 photoshop tips in 5 mins, for anyone who needs it!