Roger informs me that the new layout of my site is slightly broken in Konqueror - so apologies to any KDE users out there who read my site directly. It seems that Konq doesn't honour an aspect of the CSS I use (in spite of that particular aspect being perfectly valid). Interestingly, Safari (based on KHTML just like Konq of course) seems to work fine.

Anyway, I'm working on it, will probably have to do some user-agent detection.

Watched Die Hard 4.0 last night - leaving aside all the techno-b*ll*cks it was good, fun action movie. After that, it was Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny which last night features Sir Paul McCartney proving he sucks anytime of the day or night (or indeed year), Kylie being fabulous but failing to save Sir Paul in their duet, Kaiser Chiefs rocking as always, Lulu being even more forgettable than in the supermarket adverts and Madness being, well, Madness. I know it's pre-recorded but it's a great way to see in the New Year if you can't go out.

Launched the new-look jamesthevicar.com this morning. By default it only shows the most recent blog entry now, with a link to see the whole thing - I may change this back to the old way of doing it but for the time being it looks a lot tidier. It also gives greater prominence to the irrepressible.info banner as this is a cause I really believe in.

Update: I changed it back to a regular blog view already - was annoying me already only being able to see one entry.

This page is mostly for the benefit of my family and friends. I know that I'm a very difficult person to shop for when it comes to Christmas and my birthday, so I've put together a couple of wishlists at online retailers to help in the selection of gifts. The wishlists are in order of my preference.

Alternatively, if you want to help me out with buying things I'm going to need for my time at college, training for ordination, such as buying me book tokens, please contact me using the email address in the right-hand sidebar.

• Oxfam Unwrapped
  Oxfam Unwrapped provide "Famously Funusual" gifts. If you share my passion for international justice, for the poor of this world and for helping those with less than yourself then buy me a gift from here. You can buy me a goat for a village in Africa for example.
• Amazon
  Amazon UK seem to change the way their addresses work for wishlists occasionally, so rather than try to link to it directly, simply follow this link, and enter the name James Ogley to find my wishlist. Here you can buy DVDs, CDs, books etc for me. Why I no longer boycott Amazon.
• Think Geek
  Think Geek are based in the States, so anything you buy from here is subject to import duty according to tthe rates specified by HM Customs and Excise when it's shipped to the UK. Here you can buy geek type stuff - toys for the office, geeky t-shirts, gadgets etc for me.

I'm as active a member of the openSUSE community as I can be, time allowing. These are the aspects of that where the majority of my efforts are focused:

• openSUSE GNOME Team
  I'm a member of the openSUSE GNOME Team where I mostly look after the Community GNOME repository but also help with the other GNOME repositories.
• Planet SUSE
  Planet SUSE is an insight into the lives of member of the Novell/SUSE community. Inspired by Planet GNOME, I set up this blog & news aggregation which includes a large number of contributors to openSUSE and SUSE Enterprise.