Entries from May 2009
Gmail "African Missionary" Feature
May 25th, 2009 · Comments Off
Gmail labs, the test space for new gmail features, has come out with a feature called inbox preview which I have dubbed ‘African Missionary’ Feature. The reason is, Gmail in all its ajax glory, takes a little while to load over broadband, but this new feature give you an immediate snap shot of your [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Technology · The World · travel
Guitar tone: Es Bueno reviews finding the right overdrive
May 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I spent a little while blogging about electric guitar tone a little while ago (Amps, Guitar and Pedals) and I noticed that the Es Bueno blog had a really good post on finding the perfect overdrive tone. He’s using a Boss blues driver and Ibanez TS. I’m still getting a good tone out [...]
I’ve started ANOTHER Blog
May 21st, 2009 · Comments Off
Ive been increasing enamoured with status update service twitter which I posted an introduction to a little while back, and for a couple of different reasons I have been looking for a way to blog things which are interesting to me in a less labour-intensive way than wordpress (my current blogging software) allows, so I [...]
Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous · My Life · Technology
Incredible tiltshift
May 14th, 2009 · Comments Off
Today I’ve discovered a very cool effect called tilt shift, I played around with one of my flickr photos here to try and get the effect but it didn’t come out quite as I had hoped. From what I can work out tilt shift seems to give a very specific point of [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Technology
A Short Thought on Missions Funding
May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you are supporting missionaries overseas at the moment, heres something to think about: The falling value of the pound is significantly reducing the value of donations made in UK Sterling destined for workers overseas. While supporters here in the UK may still be giving the same amount, those receiving gifts overseas are [...]
Tags: Christian Living
End of Week Round Up
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Seeing as the last round up was little more technology based, this has more of a theological bent to it. In a pretty fascinating article in the New Statesman AN Wilson describes his journey from belief to atheism and back. "My departure from the Faith was like a conversion on the road to [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Theology Thoughts
