November 5, 2007 (3 weeks ago) – 2:35 pm
If you’ve been tracking my facebook status, you’ll know that I’m flat out at the moment between working, essay writing and studying for exams. I’m also trying to move my blogging activities onto a different computer, to make myself more productive, but I’ve found that using QuickSilver with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) isn’t working [...]
October 29, 2007 (4 weeks ago) – 7:43 pm
Finally, all the surprises are over, and at last, I can talk about the last couple of weeks. Kel doesn’t generally like surprises, and so I was glad that she seemed to react well to most of the following, with the possible exception of the last surprise.
For Kel’s birthday, I took her out to dinner [...]
October 5, 2007 – 9:26 pm
In the last few weeks at bible study, we’ve been looking at Romans 14 and 15; what to do when Christians disagree on non-crucial things.
Obviously, opinions are going to vary as to what’s non-crucial. Suggestions from the study notes, and the group, were such things as what to do with alcohol; who to baptise, [...]
September 23, 2007 – 11:31 pm
Some weekends are quiet, some are filled with seeing people from various parts of life. We spent this weekend catching up with various people: Friday night was quiet - a chance to spend some time by ourselves.
On Saturday morning, we caught up with a couple of old friends we hadn’t seen since our wedding day [...]
September 1, 2007 – 5:14 pm
Welcome to APEC… don’t get too close
Headed into Pyrmont this morning to have a look at an organic food markets, and - being so close to Darling Harbour - I thought I’d take a few photos of one of the 2.5m high fences that adorn our great city.
As you [...]
August 20, 2007 – 10:55 pm
At a writing workshop on the weekend, we were learning about print layouts: I happened to mention “anti-aliasing”, but not everyone had heard of it. In this short post, I make a fumbling attempt to explain the process.
When you try and represent something complicated in not enough pixels, you have to make it a bit [...]
August 12, 2007 – 2:10 pm
Ran my first ever city to surf today. I was hoping for a time of 100 minutes or less, but I was a little over that: time will tell, but I think it was somewhere around 104 minutes (though it took me three-and-a-half just to get to the starting line after the “back-of-pack” horn was [...]
As if I haven’t spent enough time this week listening to theological lectures, I thought’d go along to the eliza ferrie lecture.
It started with a tribute to, and a book launch of (old testament theologian and lecturer) bill dumbrell. At eighty, he is still lecturing part time, and so it was good to be part [...]
Spent the weekend catching up with Michelle and Trev in QLD, back in time for night church, catching up with some church people, and now, heading to college for day one of a week-long subject with guest lecturer Tremper Longman III. Normal blogging to resume shortly.
It’s on…
My city to surf bib showed up in the mail: it’s more of an a4 sticker than a bib… Less than two weeks to go.
Last night I had a few moments (two, maybe three minutes) of quiet: though I had a bag with a couple of books in it within easy reach, I chose to try and sit still. To not think of the things that I need to do, or learn.
I can’t say I enjoyed the pause [...]
Cards with friends
Sometimes, a 500 hand comes along that’s so bad, it deserves special attention. Note to self, it took two tries to photograph the cards, as the flash reflected too much and washed out the red cards the first time.
There was a time when I would never speak [...]
[smh] Paid care for babies a pale imitation
The warehousing of children in the guise of “care” or, even more implausibly, “early learning” (”That means the blocks have letters on them,” joked one staff member I spoke to recently) is something more and more parents feel distraught about. The research is now undeniable that babies and [...]
A touch of frost
Here’s a tip I learned this morning: when the windscreen is completely frosted over, and you can’t see through it at all, pour some tepid water (even coldish water will do) on the windscreen: you’ll clear the ice without breaking the glass.
With a new semester about to start, I’m trying to work out what is going to fall by the wayside as I make time to do more reading and writing (and learning Greek) than in past semesters. An obvious candidate for the cull is blog-reading - the fact that I’m not familiar with how mch [...]
[37signals] Pastor uses software to keep track of interactions with his congregation - the software developers over at 37 signals have developed software that lets users keep track of their interactions with customers. This particular person is an ordained minister, and he uses the software to make sure that none the people he is responsible [...]
Here’s something I put together for the introduction to evening church last week: it was probably a little too long as an intro, but there’s something useful to be had from it, I think.
One of the high points of college this year has been an unusual way of talking about spending time with God. Before [...]
March 15, 2007
NSW Premier Morris Iemma has apologised unreservedly for last night’s peak-hour train chaos in Sydney and has promised voters it will not happen again if Labor is returned to government.
July 5, 2007
Rail services to North Sydney and beyond ground to a halt…
Is it time for Morris to step down as Premier?
Update: I [...]
With the Greek exam over, I find myself in a highly unusual situation - I have nothing to do! Actually, that’s not strictly accurate: there are at least half a dozen things on my immediate to-do list, each of which will take a number of hours to complete, but I have nothing to procrastinate with: [...]
A wet week in north sydney
For those of you reading this while feeling nostalgic for sydney weather, it’s mutual. Hard to believe that we were in a drought, wondering if it would ever rain again!
We pray for rain, but always secretly hope that it will only fall exactly where [...]