Archive for September, 2003
Favicon and time
Drew, after his success with his own Favicon, made me one this evening. Which was rather marvellous of him as I’d never have got round to making one for myself.
I had to make one of the decisions I hate to make this evening, I was asked if I could volunteer to do some work on a site for a cause that I do believe in, however the work wasn’t just an hour or so and I know I just don’t have time. I’m trying to decrease the amount of things that I am running around in circles trying to get done, not pile on more … but I still feel bad about it.
Hiran de Silva
I met Hiran a few years ago, when a bunch of us used to meet up supposedly to talk about Dreamweaver UltraDev, he’s a funny chap and his blog makes entertaining reading – Hiran de Silva.
Why is my computer so slow?
I installed XP Pro on my Windows box a couple of weeks ago. I’ve managed to de-uglify it but my main problem is that my machine, which ran perfectly quickly under Win2K, now crawls. It’s not the newest machine in the world (Athlon 1.4/768MB RAM) but it should be able to handle XP … I would have thought so anyway.
Word hangs for a couple of seconds every few minutes, Eudora takes an age to process mail, I’m starting to thnk that I’m going to have to go back to Win2K just to get some work done. Any ideas on what might be up with the thing gratefully accepted …
Wise words
If Jesus once opened the eyes of a blind man, unstopped the ears of the deaf, loosened the tongue of a stammerer, so what? How can that help me? But if I find that his Spirit is still present and powerful to break down my own blinkered selfishness and make me see the truths about God, myself and the world; or if he can overcome my stupid prejudices and fears and challenge me to change my hardened heart and open up in love to him and others – then I too have been healed, and I too know what it means to be restored to the fullness of life.
The above quote is from an article, The Meaning in the Miracles, written by Jeffrey John, about the importance of exegesis, of drawing out the real meaning behind Scripture. His explanations of how the miracles recorded as being performed by Jesus so often showed Jesus as reaching out to and healing the outcasts – those who Judaism saw as unclean, are well researched and make me feel even more sad about the ugly situation that prevented this man from becoming Bishop of my own Diocese, Reading.
Mess
Dive Into Mark made me laugh today with this …
“… they’ve lived in their house for twenty years and still have unopened boxes from the old house sitting in the attic. in fact, they still refer to their house as “the new house”. they have a basement too. people like this should not have basements. people like this should not be given any storage space whatsoever. they should be forced to throw away all their belongings at the end of the day, and buy all new stuff in the morning.”
That could be my parents, my parents are great but they have a lot of stuff, an awful lot of stuff. When I was little my friends loved coming to play at my house, because nobody cared if you made a mess … one more mess made no difference. I used to love to go to my friend’s houses to be amazed by the sight of stairs that weren’t entirely covered in toys and items of long since discarded clothing. When I was 8 we moved house, my mother didn’t bat an eyelid at the foot or so of toys and small person junk on the bedroom floor, but simply scooped it all into bin bags, carted it off to the new house and dumped it back on the floor again .. at least we felt at home!
