My response to trick or treat three years ago. This is still not the USA and no-one should submit to demands for sweets made with menaces. Say no to Trick or Treat. These days, I just put this note on the door.
Monthly Archive: October 2008
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Oct 31 2008
An interesting day
Went for light therapy this morning and stopped at Starbucks for brunch on my way home. Fuel gauge mistakenly indicated being in the reserve when I got back in the car – moment of confusion but it righted itself. Checked my mail when I got home and had an email from someone who’d obviously seen …
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Oct 28 2008
One week to go
Seven days until voters go to the polls in the US (those that haven’t voted early or by post of course) and I have to say that the electoral map at the moment just looks bonkers. [Link to the map as the polls have it today] The GOP are having to campaign in Montana of …
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Oct 24 2008
Keeping up to date
Pidgin and the Gimp are now at their latest versions in GNOME:Community (that’s 2.5.2 and 2.6.1 respectively). Also, in OpenOffice.org:STABLE, version 3.0 is now available and it’s sweet. Windows users can grab the corresponding build from Go-OO. It’s not linked in but if you go to the main win32 download directory, there’s a 3.0 sub-directory. …
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Oct 23 2008
Submitting my first Masters level work
I’ve just completed and placed in an envelope a review of Evangelical Theology: An Introduction by Karl Barth. This is the first piece I’ve written for the MA and also the first thing I’ve written for college where I’ve gone over the upper word limit (for which I’ll be penalised 2% but I couldn’t edit …
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Oct 22 2008
I saw this…
Was out for a brief walk in Alresford today and this caught my eye. One advantage of having a phone like the N95 is that it includes such a good camera for taking quick shots. Make of the juxtaposition of the arrow sign and the church what you will. “Turn Away” 22 October 2008. Update: …
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Oct 22 2008
That Banshee’s eating some fruit!
Aaron’s news about Banshee on OS X is so damn cool it hurts. If and when I can afford to buy myself a Macbook [Pro], I’ll be installing it for sure. It raises a couple of questions that people who may consider using might want answered: Does it talk to iPods on OS X? Might …
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Oct 22 2008
On preaching during the credit crunch
I hear a lot of talk about how we might go about preaching during the credit crunch and I have to say it’s starting to wind me up somewhat. Not that I don’t think that the current financial climate isn’t serious – it is and it has repercussions far beyond whether people in the still-wealthy …
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Oct 20 2008
Microsoft and the church
Just looking at the latest stats for usage of bursledonparish.org and I don’t know what to make of the fact that the site at the top of the list for hits with about 13% of total hits so far this month (but 0KB in transferred data!) is 65.55.212.139 which a WHOIS search reveals belongs to …
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Oct 20 2008
Sermon: 2 Corinthians 4:1-12 – Church: An Empowered Community
Recorded yesterday at St Paul’s. 20 minutes long (26 minutes with reading and prayers). Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3: PDF of accompanying presentation.
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