I caught some of the second presidential “debate” via The Daily Show and what struck me was not McCain’s derisory referral to Obama as “That One” nor his addled wanderings around the dais as Obama was speaking. No, what amazed me was how almost life-like he looked. Michelle Obama did a great job too. If …
Monthly Archive: October 2008
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Oct 10 2008
Mum’s gone to…
We’re well used to hearing about states that allegedly sponsor terrorism – indeed, we can name the usual suspects easily: Iran, North Korea, the USA, Israel (sorry, two of those just enact terrorism themselves directly). Now it seems we can add a new name to the list. Icelandic bankers are apparently terrorists. Why else would …
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Oct 09 2008
Worship: Variety or Consistency?
In our worship, is variety the spice of life or does consistency build community? Where do we strike the balance between the two? As a minister in the Church of England, I have a wide variety of authorised liturgy available to me to use while remaining within a consistent shape and pattern of worship. As …
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Oct 09 2008
26 days to go
Until the people of the USA go to the polls and it’s looking like it might be a landslide for Obama. People ask me (they really do) how I think it’s going to go and for a long time (even back when the polls were showing a roughly tied electoral college) I’ve been predicting an …
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Oct 09 2008
Playing catch-up
The weekend before last, I was at the IME Residential which was led by Jonny Baker. A really interesting time thinking about creativity in a post-modern context. One of those times whose value was not in the new information imparted – for me there wasn’t much – but in knowing that Jonny had been approved …
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Oct 06 2008
Greeks Include Many People
As promised, version 2.6 of the GIMP is now in GNOME:Community
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Oct 03 2008
Green Imps Make Phones
It only seems like yesterday that GIMP 2.4 was released – indeed, it’s less than a year – but already, GIMP 2.6 has been released. Stephen has very kindly packaged it for openSUSE 11.0. I’ll update the package in GNOME:Community real soon.
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Oct 03 2008
It’s a wired world baby!
Or in this case a wireless one. Four years or so ago, I used wifi for the first time on the laptop I owned at the time (the beast, as it was known). I was sat at Northampton Services on the M1 at the time. Well, I’m there again today and the wifi access is …
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