Lots of people turning up on this blog right now from discussion boards and other websites to read but not to comment. Thats fine. Hello to everyone from Consumer Forums Goddess Mums, CafeMom, AboveTopSecret and what seems to be the biggest group of all – the Mums and Moms from Mothering.com. To be honest, I…
Read MoreI dont need a new Mac
I know tomorrow’s launch of the new Mac and Macbook Pro will have a lot of people ooohhing and aaahhhing but the fact is, my Mac is still rocking after nearly 2 years and I dont intend to replace it. Even if I had the money to do it. Unless there was a spectacular reason…
Read MoreSocial Media Sabbaticals
[photo by andrew jones to make you say “I need a sabbatical!] UPDATED [Oct 13] with huge apology to my friend Rhett Smith who blogged some excellent thoughts on social media breaks and boundaries. ORIGINAL: Marcus Goodyear is taking a social media sabbatical, the Pyromaniacs are taking the month off and Darren Rowse of Problogger…
Read More“Sex Jab” HPV Story is Express Front Page
The Daily/Sunday Express was another paper that contacted us about our story. When I went down to the supermarket to get some veges for our roast, I was surprised and a little intimidated to see that our ordeal was on the front page on the Express. Headlines were “Girl gets sex jab against her will”…
Read MoreFacebook Facts
10,000 machines run the facebook site 100,000 facebook applications in the UK 100,000,000 facebook users worldwide Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook at Future of Web Apps Expo. I dont use facebook very much. I started my account in 2006 because I was speaking at a Fusion student event and this was the way they were…
Read MoreHPV Coercion story in Herald, page 3
That wife of mine . . . always complaining about something . . NAAHHHH actually the opposite is true – She really hates to rock the boat and was hesitant to tell the story when she was asked about it. And the fact is that everyone we have talked to in Orkney is really sympathetic…
Read MoreThe Sunday Times HPV Story on page 6
That 13 year old Orkney girl in the papers today is our daughter. Heres the skinny. Sunday Times did a good job covering the story of our daughter’s coerced HPV jab. Other families were involved but for some reason our story got the headlines. Page 6 in the paper version. Not sure about other papers.…
Read MoreThe Return of the Drop Spindle
No, its not a fad. Not yet, anyway. But drop spindles are a fun way to start spinning your own wool. Debbie just made some that are really unusual. Heres the story. I told you about our piano dilemma a while ago: Gorgeous antique piano with an ancient and warped sound board. It would have…
Read MoreTechnorati’s State of the Blogosphere
“blogs are a global phenomenon that has hit the mainstream.” Technorati, State of the Blogosphere I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago at Blog World Expo and one of the highlights for me was the State of the Blogosphere presented by Technorati representatives. The whole session is up on their site. Totally worth…
Read MoreJab Update
For those of you following our story about the coerced jabbing of our daughter with an HPV immunization shot, tomorrow in the Sunday papers around the country there will be an official apology from the health department and hopefully some practical steps to ensure our story, and those of a few other families around the…
Read MoreChurch 2.0 Tour
Greg Atkinson is setting up a Church 2.0 Fall Tour in preparation for a book in the near future on the subject. More on Facebook and DJ Chuang’s blog. Even though you might be getting tired of hearing about EVERYTHING 2.0, and the term is probably only continuing due to the O’Reilly conferences and their…
Read MoreCleaning Up
Cleaning up the blog at the moment. Feels good! Actually, my bedroom is messy right now and I am compensating by de-cluttering the blog.
Read MoreWe’ve Only Just Begun to Emerge, and more.
All kind of things emerging . . . – Mark DeVine points to an excellent chapter [download PDF] he wrote for a forthcoming book called E3: Evangelicals Engaging Emergent. – Welcome to the Common Root that launched last week with a less confusing name. – Paul Roberts demurs regarding The Great Emergence – IMG church…
Read MoreHPV vaccination and the coercion of our 13 year old diabetic daughter
We are a bit shaken up over the HPV Vaccination, sometimes called the HPV Jab. It supposedly immunises young women against sexually transmitted disease that can lead to genital warts and cervical cancer but is not yet proven. However, for a number of reasons, my wife and I “opted out” by checking the ‘No’ box…
Read MoreFair Trade Gold and Jewellery
“Customers don’t realize that one wedding ring weighs 10 grams and causes three tonnes of toxic waste,” Greg Valerio, Reuters My friend Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery, who I have mentioned before, is in Los Angeles over the next few days, meeting with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists regarding some new social enterprises in the fair…
Read More10 Commandments of Blogging
HT: Clerical Whispers shares the story behind the 10 commandments of blogging loosely developed at the Godblogs event in England which was hosted by the Evangelical Alliance. The commandments were given in a “tongue-in-cheek” manner, a bit like my “Blogger’s Prayer” back in 2002, but they are pretty good nonetheless. The 10 Commandments of Blogging:…
Read MoreRemembering Blog Martyrs
In Saudi Arabia, blogger “Rania” was burned alive for her new faith in Jesus Christ a few days after her blog post. HT: Open Doors magazine Frontline, Oct 2008. Technorati Tags: martyr, saudi arabia
Read MoreJon Abel rocked us
Listening today to a CD from John Abel called More Than This. Jon was the songleader at last weekend’s Summit in Tahoe. Lovely guy. Great worship leader. Christianity Today also liked him. Technorati Tags: jon abel, music, worship
Read MoreEmerging Church: Recent English Language Voices on the Transition
Australia “While I find much of value in the emerging, missional and neo-monastic conversations there is much that sits uneasy with me too, given where I am and where I have come from. I am seeking an understanding of postmodernity which is less monolithic than what I find the emergent stream is offering, I am…
Read MoreRetro: Sonseed and Jesus is my friend
This month’s header has a retro feel but actually I took the shot last weekend at Lake Tahoe. Speaking of retro, Prodigal Jon thinks through the 5 stages of emailing an unintentionally funny video like this one below on the Stuff Christians Like blog. HT: Bob Carlton. The band in question is called “Sonseed”. They…
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