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Entries from March 2009

A Musical Interlude

March 31st, 2009 · Comments Off

We met up with our friends Delta Spirit this week who played a completely brilliant show @King Tuts, I didn’t bring a camera with me, so video this time (check here for some short segments of January’s show) but Matt mentioned they shot a video for LaBlogotheque a great french music website (who also [...]

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Tags: Music

End of Week Round Up

March 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

We are settling in well to our new place which we have moved to, to save money for DTS, affectionately known as the portacottage: My good friend Sam Rich is writing a blog over the course of his Discipleship Training School course with YWAM based in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Why not pop over [...]

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Tags: Hat Tips

Tweet Tweet – An Intro to Twitter

March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

You may have heard of the online company called twitter, the buzz around this service/business is akin to the facebook buzz of about 18 months ago, and I wouldn’t be too surprised in the next few months to hear less of ‘are you on facebook’ and more ‘what’s your twitter name’. Call it the [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Technology · Web 2.0 · mobile blogging

Spatial Metaphors on Heaven

March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

So often the words we speak, be they metaphorical or descriptive in other ways, become the literal ways we think about things. For example the metaphor of the heart as a pump is often used, but in actual fact the heart is much more than a pump, and thinking of it in such a [...]

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Tags: Theology Thoughts

Migrating from Blackberry to iPhone – The Problems Part 4

March 20th, 2009 · Comments Off

Problem 2, reared its head like another ugly behemoth, in the form of Microsoft Exchange! Exchange, if you’re not familiar with it is actually quite a wonderous piece of work, when, of course, it does actually work. It should be able to connect to your iPhone and business exchange server OTA (Over the air, [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

Evangelism is…

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Jason Clark has a superb guest post which summarises Bryan Stone’s book Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness by creating 12 statements about Evangelism. Click through to see a more detailed treatment. Image 1: Evangelism is… the church being present in the world. Image 2: Evangelism is… essentially embodied [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips · Theology Thoughts

End of Week Round Up

March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The Round up has returned fom a temporary hiatus, and I have a big back log, far too long for one post, but if you are interested in where I find all this interesting stuff you can subscribe to my Google Reader Shared feeds/Twitter/Del.icio.us or the friendfeed which is a culmination of all of the [...]

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Tags: Apple · Christian Living · Church · Technology · Theology Thoughts

Migrating from Blackberry to iPhone – The Problems Part 3

March 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

Well I returned and cracked open my box of iPhones and began documenting the joyous occasion, as I mentioned earlier, I opened up my handset and got to work setting it up and configuring the sounds, checking out the phone section, look at the gorgeous SMS UI. Then it was time to jump online, [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

Migrating from Blackberry to iPhone – The Problems Part 2

March 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

To fully understand the problem we have to step back a few days, last Thursday I arrange with O2 to switch from Blackberry to iPhone’s, O2 promised a next day delivery, which was handy because the next day was friday. SO I turned up to work, virtually salivating to get my hands on [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology

Migrating from Blackberry to iPhone – The Problems Part 1

March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Well I successfully convinced my company to migrate from blackberries to iPhones and a few weeks ago they arrived, so I had my very own iChristmas (sorry I promised certain people I wouldn’t prefix my verbs with "i"). I decided to crack open my handset first and get everything set up and make [...]

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Tags: Apple · Technology