This started off as a series of tweets I posted. While the rest of the church seems to be focused on the impending doom of the non-rapture (Rapture Fail; Maggi Dawn), I got to thinking how the whole process of making clergy appointments could be “improved” if it were more like how footballers are transferred …
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Feb 11 2011
Cocked, barrel to head, pulling trigger
This morning, Nokia announced their “Strategy for 2011“. This strategy is based around dropping Symbian (and essentially sidelining MeeGo) in favour of Windows Phone 7. As I said on Twitter this morning (and thanks to those who retweeted it), This morning’s Nokia news is like a man calling a press conference to shoot himself in …
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Jan 01 2011
Another decade over, a new one just begun
So, having reflected a couple of days ago on my resolutions for 2011, I’m going to look back over the last 10 years, the decade often known as the “naughties”. Year-by-year, what happened in Ogleyland?
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Nov 23 2010
Boycott the Mail
There’s an ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. It’s been an interesting few days for the Bishop of Willesden, Pete Broadbent. (Disclaimer: I know Bishop Pete through working with Soul Survivor and his role as a member of St John’s Nottingham College Council) After last week’s announcement of the royal wedding, Pete …
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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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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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Jun 11 2010
Nokia X6: My experience so far
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently upgraded to the Nokia X6 16GB and as when I reviewed the N900, I’m posting my experiences of just over two weeks with it so far. All from the perspective of being a Linux user of course. I am loving the X6 on the whole. The ‘X’ range is …
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Apr 09 2010
What does Cameron think of you?
This one’s mostly for the Twitter community who may get this from my feed but it’s just a gentle reminder that: David Cameron doesn’t like you That’s right, if you use Twitter, Cameron thinks you’re a twit, an idiot. He thinks there is something deeply wrong with you. Do you want to vote for a …
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Sep 01 2009
Where to get the latest Gwibber packages on openSUSE
Long, long ago, on a blog far, far away … Andy posted about how to go about getting what was then the latest version of Gwibber on openSUSE. A lot’s changed since then so here’s the skinny on how to get either the latest stable or bleeding-edge Gwibber: openSUSE 11.1 If you’re after the latest …
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Jul 27 2009
Cool new Gwibber hack
Mario blogs about his work on Gwibber during the openSUSE hack week adding some cool new functionality. This is very cool and I hope to get this work included in the openSUSE Contrib (although someone with more karma than me suggested I get it into Factory) packages of Gwibber. Mario, you’ll read this on Planet …
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