Happy Birthday Mum

Happy birthday to my Mum! Today she turns . . . well, who’s counting? This is her and Brian – there were married about 11 years ago and are very happily living in Perth, West Australia. Did I tell you my Mum is a painter?

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Playstation in the Jones House

Well, I finally splurged and bought a used PS2. There was some Christmas money given to us, and some birthday money that was on hold until we were on our feet again in London. And then we found this Silver Edition PS2 at Cash Converters for 95 pounds. And now we have a Playstation. We…

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refresh yourself in good deeds

My word for the day from Tommy Boy. “. . . it is well for you to apply yourself to humble, outward works and to refresh yourself in good deeds, to await with unshaken confidence My heavenly visitation, patiently to bear your exile and dryness of mind until you are again visited by Me and…

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Americanized Bible Version

“There is no one who is Purpose Driven™, no one who asks, ‘What Would Jesus Do?™” Quote from The Americanized Bible Version. Thanks Marc for the link. The Liquid Thinking folks who want you to know that the “20 Days of Purpose Baseball shirts” were just a joke – so don’t order any.

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Out for the weekend

I am signing off for the weekend. I have friends over (Brian O’Connell) and am getting ready to make some pizza and have a good weekend. Yes, i am going to the prayer meeting with 17,000 people on Saturday. Nothing going on my blog this weekend – see you next monday. In the meantime, i…

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Storm

sTorm  (By Andrew Jones) Water filling boat we will arrive wet seeking pity and a dry house sTorm came out of nowhere in the time between times the space between spaces where we are most v    u    l    n    e    r      a      b        l       …

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Skinny on Spain

For the skinny on Spain in the aftermath of the bombing, from a blogger who is an American friend of mine, check out Jonah

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sofake.com

sofake.com socool a web site! I love how they manage to maintain continuity in navigation, and even blend the music. I like the music so much i am leaving it playing.

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Labyrinth comes home

After appearances in churches around the world, the multi-media labyrinth comes home to Ealing where it was created. I was in london April 2000, immediately after the Grace community had released it in England, and I invited them over to USA. Steve Collins brought the labyrinth over to our Epicenter 2001 event in Austin, Texas…

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H20 language introduced today

While spoken languages are dying in some places, written software languages are being invented. H20 or Html Html/OS Overlays was created by Aestiva. I wonder if when we get to heaven, and everyone is worshipping in their own language (“every tribe and tongue”), that there will be some geeks in the back, worshipping in PHP…

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Orkut: community online or goat-sacrificing satanic cult?

A few weeks ago i became a part of Orkut, at the invitation of Dan Hughes (theyblinked.com). I am not pushing the idea to anyone since i want to see where it goes (organically), but i should be honest and tell you that since then, about 7 people have asked me to identify them as…

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London’s Blog Map

Congrats to Infovis who are helping people visualize the blogosphere, and especially for being so integral to the non-virtual realities of these big cities. Example: the blog maps of New York City, and Washinton DC work perfectly fine, but the map of London does not come when you want it to – just like the…

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Lev – My New Media Guru

I admit it. i am a FAN of Lev. Lev Manovich is the man. A year ago I bought “The Language of New Media” and found it to be the most helpful book on new media that i had come across. I have probably read it 3 times. I also bought “The New Media Reader”…

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.Mac account expiring

11 days left before Apple pulls the plug on my .Mac membership. Im not going to renew it – too expensive and i dont really use it. That means that my QT movies are all going to disappear until i upload them somewhere else and give them all new links. My deep apologies to anyone…

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Font Deficiency

Could you guys help me? I have neglected my font appropriation practices and now am faced with a deficiency. I need some really good fonts for my on-line book. Can you recommend some Free Fonts (with a link) or just email one or two? Much appreciated.

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Reimagining Spiritual Formation

Doug Pagitt’s book “Reimagining Spiritual Formation” is published and there is a website to back up the book. Looks cool Doug! Doug is sending me a copy of the book, which tells me he is feeling guilty for leaving me out on this one – he was originally going to have me write this with…

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The Bailey Baby

Jeff and Alicia Bailey had a baby (Wade). congrats!!!!!!! Jeff was one of the original Young Leaders (now Emergent) and has been editing an excellent newsletter called Cutting Edge, as well as planting churches for the Vineyard. They plan on doing doctoral work at Cambridge or Oxford next year so i hope to be catching…

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Brian O’Connell to Make Pizza this Friday

The guest of honor at this Friday’s pizza party in the Jones kitchen is Brian O’Connell, Stirrer, Networker, Publisher of Impressive Documents, and Collaborator of Really Really Important Events. Brian has been working in Seattle with WEF (World Evangelical Fellowship) and Interdev, but is now getting his mind around some new projects. We met in…

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Mothers Day 04

Happy Mothers Day to my dear OLD Mum. Here she is painting at North Beach, Perth, West Australia. Her paintings are really good. She’s a good one, my Mum. Thanks for everything!!! As for my wife Debbie, she is a Mum also, and she had a special Mothers Day breakfast in bed, a day off…

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