Preached last night at St Paul’s. 27 minutes including reading (John 1.43-end). Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3 from the church website. Podcast subscribers will get it automatically of course. About two minutes in, I refer to New Jersey – I actually mean New Hampshire. Just to be clear.
Yearly Archive: 2010
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Oct 25 2010
Happy Zero Day
This morning, with it being half-term and so several of the team being on holiday, staff meeting was cancelled. It turns out that this was a far more productive use of my day as I set about attending to my parish and personal email inboxes that were both hovering around the 100 email mark. No …
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Oct 23 2010
New server, new theme
Within the last 24 hours, my hosting company, BigWetFish have migrated my site onto a new, high specified, UK-based, server. This should improve the performance of the site for all users – and especially the majority who are UK-based themselves. In addition, anyone accessing the site from mobile devices (roughly 20% of users) will now …
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Oct 19 2010
Another sermon catch-up
There was another hiatus in updating the sermons on the parish website but I think it should be consistently updated now. Anyway, here are my sermons in the meantime – all available as MP3 or Ogg Vorbis: Acts 28.17-31: Now it’s our turn (27 June 2010) Psalm 145: God’s Greatness (1 August 2010) Psalm 121: …
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Oct 14 2010
Open letter to Nick Clegg on Tuition Fees
Below is the content of an email I just sent to Nick Clegg over university tuition fees: Dear Nick, Firstly, I hugely appreciate the time you and your team take to keep us, the grassroots as it were, informed as to not only decisions being taken by senior Liberal Democrats in government but also about …
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Sep 01 2010
O, won’t you please authenticate me
Yesterday, Twitter disabled the basic username/password authentication for client applications. This is a move toward greater security but it did mean that anyone using Gwibber will suddenly have found that their Twitter stream stopped updating. A mere matter of hours later and an updated version of Gwibber has been pushed out that supports the new …
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Aug 25 2010
Why I feel sorry for Man City and Chelsea fans
I appreciate the title of this post may seem at best ironic, at worst like sour grapes, after the 3-0 drubbing at Eastlands on Monday night but it started swimming around my head before that match had even kicked off. I was listening to the Sunday Roast on BBC Radio 5 Live and on that …
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Aug 01 2010
Psalm 145: God from A-Z
This morning as we were thinking about Psalm 145, the congregation at St Paul’s came up with an A-Z of things about God. I promised I’d publish them on the church website and here they are.
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Jul 27 2010
The Seven Link Challenge
Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
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Jul 27 2010
What is this character for?
¬ Why? What is it doing on my keyboard? I mean, it looks packed with awesome but I just don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it – what is its purpose? Update from Jeffrey Cook: Back in the dark ages (before the were any PCs, mainframe connected terminals like the IBM 3270 were …
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