I’m still digesting the GAFCON statements, so as yet have little to add to the discussions. However, David has been at GAFCON in jerusalem all week, and has managed to keep on blogging. Catch up with the news on gadgetvicar’s blog.
Archive for June, 2008
GAFCON comments
Posted in Church, sexuality on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dark Knight
Posted in movies on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Superheros have always fascinated me – I love stories of the fantastical, of the heroic, of fantasy and adventure, and my first introduction was the Batman TV show of the 70’s – Adam West and Burt Ward in tights, with cartoon clouds of “pow” and “zap” littered across the screen.
As a young teenager I was [...]
sexy communicating…
Posted in Random, Technology, politics on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There seems to be a major fuss in the world of the interweb at the moment about the possibility of “sexy texting” leading to a 10 year jail term in Scotland.
Part of the new Sexual Offences (Scotland) bill covers new communication media, and rightly so – but this is causing a kerfuffle among those who [...]
not the end of the world…
Posted in Random, Technology on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The BBC kicked of this morning with a story that the earth is not at risk when the Large Hadron Collider goes on line at CERN in the summer.
The LHC (from what i understand – I am no scientist) is a huge underground tunnel in which protons will be smashed into each other at ultra-high [...]
3-dimensional printing – from your pc!
Posted in Random, Technology on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
RepRap (or the REPlicating RAPid Prototyper) is essentially a 3-d printer, which can replicate many of the parts (around 60%) to make itself. Developed by genius types at Bath University, currently it prints layers of plastic to create the three dimensional item you require, limited only by the size of the machine. Its also open-source [...]
What are we doing????
Posted in Church, sexuality on June 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change have pulled out of the election process in Zimbabwe, regardless of the fact they were winning the popular vote, and won the last round of the election (tho not by enough to win the election outright). They have had to pull out after repeated arrests, and the [...]
the future of the Beeb from a particular angle…
Posted in Random, blogging, tagged blogs on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Fry’s blog is more a selection of essays (or Blessay’s as he likes to call them) – a good deal longer than an average blog entry, but written with the same wit, intelligence and opionionated viewpoint which for me make Stephen Fry one of the most entertaining people I have had the pleasure to [...]
Blogfriends
Posted in Church, Friends on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just discovered weeruthie has a blog, after spotting a comment on Kenny’s.
Ruth is an old friend, and I have been rather remiss in not keeping in touch with old friends. In fact, Ruthie was my “best woman” at our wedding just over 5 years ago, and it is shameful that we simply lost touch over [...]
In the green zone
Posted in Random, politics, tagged Add new tag, po on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
According to the political compass at least. Apparently I’m Economic left/right -5.75; Social libertarian/Authoritarian -5.13
thanks to both Dave and Kenny for this – it seems the Glasgow diocese has its share of liberal lefties!
The Future’s Orange? not likely!
Posted in Technology, phone on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the last 4 or 5 years I’ve been using HTC smartphones and pocket PC’s – a brilliant way to keep hold of my data, take notes in meetings and keep track of my diary (which I invariably lose in paper form!). Oh yeah, and to do the usual phone stuff – calls, text messages, [...]
