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Entries from April 2009

Organisation of the desktop – A quick Spring Clean

April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I sit at my desktop for most of my day at work, so this morning I decided to do a little spring cleaning and it turned out pretty well. I created my own productivity GTD-esque system after sustaining inbox zero (find out more about that here) to the point that its a habit, so here [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life · Technology

Human Trafficking – YWAM’s Sex+Money Project

April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

At the end of last year we went over to a YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii for a wedding of some very good friends. In some parts of our minds we we’re quite ready to think, ‘A Missions base on a Hawaiian Island! Must be hard work!’. In fact when we got there [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Justice · Theology Thoughts · Worship

Tech Round Up

April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

We all like lifehacks, bits of software which speed things up, but at the end of the day the classic productivity killers are always the obvious ones. Lifehacker give out some tips on how to finish them off. If you have a job in an office, chances are you use outlook, if you [...]

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Tags: Technology

An Easter post – a little late

April 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Following on from my foray into blogging poems I enjoyed – I think sometimes the wonder of the biblical narrative is only really captured in poetry. Here’s a poem for Easter. From the far star points of his pinned extremities,cold inched in—black ice and squid ink—till the hung flesh was empty.Lonely in that [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts · Worship

Frustration with Browsers

April 14th, 2009 · 7 Comments

I’ll be blogging a bit more about this in the near future, but Ive been working on a couple of different web projects recently, and I just wanted to share a little frustration with you. The frustration can be summed up in two words, Internet Explorer. I’ve been playing around with the simple design [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Technology · Web 2.0

A Couple of my favourite poems

April 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Abraham Piper is asking to read his readers favourite poems as part of National Poetry Month (in the US), so I submitted a couple that I have featured on this blog before that have an impact on me. the cross by Stewart Henderson: Strange Way to watch for stormy weather, Strange Way to [...]

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