Entries from September 2008
Where in the World are the Byrnes Family
September 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I found a very interesting tool to play with, Public Profiler’s World names, it allows you to put in your surname and it tells you where in the world the most people with you surname live. Worth noting though that they don’t seem to have datasets for Africa, central and south America (not including Argentina) [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous
As if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me
September 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
“Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Theology Thoughts
John Webster on the delight of the Gospel
September 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
Now that my days are filled with endless staring at spreadsheets and webpages, I miss my time with the 4 or 5 of us in the Barth course sitting around in John Webster’s office, strange really that Microsoft Excel would give you such a strong desire to discuss Karl Barth. Anyway here is some stellar [...]
Tags: Theology Thoughts
Brief Thoughts on the new iPod releases
September 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Clearly the biggest sell for the latest update was the new Nano which has been transformed from its square dimensions to a tall device with curved glass and the all important gimmick the ‘accelerometer’ which skips to a random track when you shake the device. Another notable is the iPod classic which seems to be [...]
Tags: Apple
Come Thou Fount
September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Rachel and I sang this song together the other night and went over the lines to understand them properly, whilst making a decision about whether to use it in our wedding in just over 2 weeks time. It is a great song and the original author Robert Robinson penned the words at age 22 in [...]
Tags: Christian Living · My Life · Theology Thoughts
BigBulkyAnglican passes away
September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off
For the last few months I have been reading the blog BigBulkyAnglican by Tom Allen who worked for mission to seafarers. It was with sadness and shock that as I went to read his blog the following message was displayed: "This is Bigbulkyanglican’s daughter, am sorry to inform you that my dad, the creative and [...]
Technorati CEO gives Top 5 Blogging Tips
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. So you’d imagine he probably knows what makes a good blog: 1) React quickly. Commentators like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Malkin draw megatraffic with immediate rebuttals to A-list pundits at The New York Times and Fox News. 2) Make [...]
Tags: Blogging · Technology · Web 2.0
My Bad: Missing Christopher Wright
September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I only realised a few weeks ago that Christopher Wright, author of the Mission of God book, that I began reading a few weeks ago, spoke in Aberdeen at the ecumenical event Souled Out and I sat through the entire evening without realising who he was. My bad…
Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life · Theology Thoughts
Delicious gets the decorators in
September 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
Delicious has had a makeover and I really like it. Delicious is an excellent bookmarker tool for anyone who wants to keep a track of websites for later reference. Its perfect for me because I move from one computer to the next quite often and its stores everything online and just requires and small button [...]
Tags: Technology · Web 2.0
The Bizarreness of the BBC’s liberalism
September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off
An excellent piece of writing by Nick Cohen in Standpoint regarding the some convoluted mindset of the BBC. …the disasters of the Bush Administration and their own intellectual and aesthetic inadequacies have allowed writers to get away with a bad faith that would have had them booed off the stage in less fevered times. As [...]
Tags: Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · The World · politics
