EmergAnt is the topic of my new speaking series. I will be teaching on emergence and growth in new church movements. Here is my speaking schedule and which cities i will be in, for those of you asking to connect for a coffee. Send me an email to arrange something. DAWN European Network Conference, Switzerland.…
Read MoreChecking in
End of the week and its been really hectic here. Highlights: – Hannah’s birthday party on Friday night. She turned 7 and celebrated with a sleepover for her friends. – I bought a 200 pound Volvo. Yes, another 200 pound volvo. – Weather is good but the blizzard is still coming. – Miriam is here…
Read MoreBitTorrent + RSS = Videora
Link: Wired reports:”a new application combining BitTorrent and RSS could make it easy for video fans to automatically locate files and download them to their computers.” Its called Videora.
Read MoreStromness Storm Video
Here is a little sound and video sample of what it feels like to be in the wind…
Read MoreStorm In Orkney
Thanks BB for the previous post – internet is working for 30 second windows. WWooooo. The storm came last night to Orkney and all over Scotland and Northern Ireland. 125 MPH winds on the Western Isles. We dont know exactly how fast they were here because, apparently, THE WIND STATION WAS BLOWN AWAY (either here…
Read MoreJones Family all well and safe
This is not tallskinnykiwi. You can call me ‘burgandy beret’ – that’s my hacker alias for today. I figure if I’m asked to blog on his behalf, by jingo I’m gonna wear some kind of headgear. It’s only fitting! The Jones Family are fine. They are doing well despite the scary news reports. They still…
Read MoreiPod shuffle
ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh iPod shuffle just released 5 minutes ago. oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh The site says “Random is the New Order” – I like that “The unpredictable new member of the iPod family” Very cool. But where oh wheeeeeeeere is the G5 PowerBook?
Read MoreMacWorld: DroolFest
UPDATE: MacMini – introduced a few minutes ago to the world. Image from this site. MacWorld San Francisco. Pilgrimage site of Mac Geeks everywhere. I was there in 1999. ORIGINAL POST: And the first droolworthy product is . . . G-PLAY – why just store your multimedia files when you can play them or display…
Read More100+ MPH winds
They are coming in tonight. 100+ mph winds from Iceland. Arctic storm . . yeahhh baby . . bring it on!!!!!! We expect to lose power and our telephone line tomorrow. Consider me out of touch for 2 days. Forget about coming here tomorrow. The crazy winds and weather here in Orkney were part of…
Read MoreWeb Upgrades for 24-7 and CE
2 more upgraded websites to look at. (Thanks Marc for the tip) 1. 24-7 Prayer. They showed me a preview of this one when i was with them in Spain a few months ago. Looks good, ay? 2. Connect Europe. A much better looking site for this great network, which is very similar to 24-7…
Read MoreBlogathon on 20th Jan
Aussie blogger Darren Rowse will be blogging every 15 minutes for 24 hours straight. And the donations will all go to help Tsunami victims. He hopes to break last years record of US $540. Details here.
Read MoreEmergent Gets Emergent
Good news. Re: yesterday’s post, I was not excommunicated from Emergent. However, I have been downgraded again, from the lofty, privileged position of “Senior Fellow” to a lower “Coordinator” and now finally, scraping the bottom of the barrel, a lowly and humble “Contributor”. I guess theres no gold watch for me???!!!! It looks like Emergent…
Read MoreMy Blog is Still Dumb
7 years of blogging and my blog is still dumb. Yes, it has advanced beyond the horse and carriage days of 1998, when i had to manually enter the date onto each posting. And beyond 2002 when i had to manually enter the comments collected from emails. And yes, RSS feeds (2003) have helped others…
Read MoreEmergent Village New Site
Nice looking site for emergentvillage.com, which reminds me a little of Willzhead blog. But unfortunately i have been EXCOMMUNICATED from the listing of Emergent leaders.
Read MoreI am a Creative Commonist
I guess you could say that I am a card carrying Creative Commonist. I just ordered the T-Shirt, so that makes it official. I also downloaded the CopyLeft Desktop – ahhhh shucks – i feel like such a GROUPIE! The name Creative Commonist popped up last week in response to Bill Gate’s suggestion that those…
Read MoreBoy in Khoa Lak, Thailand
Community Message: A 2 year old boy Khoa Lak sits in a hospital in Thailand. No one knows who he belongs to. He may be Scandanavian or British but nobody knows what country he comes from. If you know, phone 076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339
Read MoreUnpredictability
This is a smaller image of something i am working on for a series of conferences i will be teaching at in Germany and Switzerland. I posted some earlier thoughts here on the subject of unpredictablity in a chaotic system, and an appropriate response. Snippet: A network with many weak links is stronger than a…
Read MoreHow To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is a great album. It was a Christmas present from my son Samuel. Not as musically spectacular or unique as “All That You Cant Leave Behind”, but as a coherent collection of songs, it offers good insight on how to change the world for the better. It begins, at…
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2005
UPDATE: Emerging Church bloggers Willzhead and Cleave are hosting their own “Read the bible in 2005” parties. ORIGINAL POST: Once i read the Bible every day for 6 years, normally 4 chapters a day so i could get through the Bible each year. I have not been as regular, these past few years, but was…
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