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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Started using Thunderbird at home to connect to Gmail (using IMAP) cause sometimes (during a long email) the internet connection drops. So Thunderbird doing the old IMAP thingy ensures continuity.

When I started, the handbrak was converting all my Gmail contacts to Thunderbird. Of course some wonderful Geek has had the problem before me and created this great little addon for Thunderbird. It keeps your contacts synced! How cool is that?!

Labels: Geekery, Technology, Thunderbird

Posted by Stephen @ 7:34 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

::Technology-Seamonkey

Needed a free wysiwyg html editor (web page builder) and found Seamonkey. If you need something small (in terms of diskspace and memory) something wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) and free, go your hardest!

Labels: Rants, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 2:48 PM 0 comments

Monday, August 27, 2007

::Rants-A great idea!

I love my students! Here is what one of them sent me in terms of trying to do something small to make a difference:

Hey everyone, I just found out that If Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved. In response, Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption so spread the word and convert to blackle.

http://www.blackle.com/

Labels: Environment, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 2:44 PM 1 comments

Sunday, April 15, 2007

::Rants-Computer woes, Easter and Fish and Chips with Jesus

I have been having problems with the laptop (which is my main work computer) and therefore have not been able to do much email or blog wise. Ah well. I must admit, life does seem to be a little simpler when you don't have to worry about blogging or getting back to emails.

Lisa, Harry and I got away for a little bit of the Easter weekend and did a night of camping. If Lisa had her way, we would have been gone a few more days, but we were on the tail end of rebuilding the veranda and those of you who know me, know that I don't do manual labour very well!

While we were away, I started reading "The Quest for the Radical Middle", a history of the Vineyard. It certainly is an interesting read. The first thing that struck me was that John Wimber's quest for engage the Spirit was at least partly born out of his interacting with the work of Paul Hiebert and his "excluded middle" theory on Western Rationalisms reduction of supernatural experiences. It threw me because (a) I had just presumed that it was a simplification of 80's Charismatic thinking and most disturbingly (b) I have moved significantly in the last decade or so to the intellectual and aeway from an openness to a life in the Spirit that I have come from historically.

It rattled me in both good and bad ways. I have been challenged by God to understand what it means to be an "empowered evangelical" in 2007 rather than in 1980. The challenge to take the best of evangelicalism and the best of the Pentecostal movement is one that is still stirring me. I would really value your prayers over all of this.

Today was the first day of family devotions. Lisa and I have been waiting for the right time to sit with Harry and start to be more intentional about the story of who Jesus is.

We have been praying with Harry every night since he was born. This stage is cute with Harry consistently wanting to thank God for cows (and the grass that they eat which gives us milk) and sheepy's.

A few weeks ago, we started reading some of the great stories from the bible to him before he goes to sleep. However, what we want to try and do each Sunday is to keep a family journal, where we write and draw what has been happening over the last week, then Lisa or I read a story from the bible, then we draw some of that too in the journal. Once that is done, we pray together. Todays story was Jesus feeding the five thousand. As we find ourselves doing an immediate improv reading, I turned the loaves and the fishes into fish and chips (which is what we had just eaten for lunch).

It was beautiful to hear a child say the name of Jesus, as he tries to draw him in red.

Labels: Blogging, Children, Church, Rants, Spirituality, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 2:05 PM 3 comments

Friday, March 02, 2007

::The System - Was Down

SORRY! My hosting service played up for the last time on me. I am in the process of changing to a new hosting service thanks to Rohan the IT guy from Tear. He's letting me park neurotribe.net with him.

If you have emailed me, I didn't get anything the last week or so because of the faulty hosting.

And in addition, I am about to go on three weeks leave. I am going to be rebuilding our veranda with the carpenter we have contracted for that purpose. I will be checking email's on and off for the next three weeks, and maybe I will even make the occasional blog entry.

I was In Perth (in Western Australia) for the better part of last week and one of the things I did was the Forge Intensive over there. They recorded most of the sessions. You can find links to the MP3's here... http://forgewa.org.au/

Once again, sorry about the dodgy service. It shouldn't happen again in the near future as I have shifted hosts.

Labels: Blogging, Rants, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 9:16 AM 2 comments

Thursday, February 01, 2007

::Culture-Grrrl Power

On ABC Newsradio today, I heard a report that women make up 41% of the gaming population. Women are attracted to games that revolve around simulations (The Sims) and world building type games. They make up a significantly smaller percentage of the revenue stream due to the fact that they tend to play one game for longer periods of time whereas guys will buy a game, play it for a short period of time then move onto the next.

Interesting initial observations:

Women joining the ranks of the virtual world, living their lives through digital persona's using such games as The Sims and Secondlife.
Women like to control their context, having detailed control over the environment they inhabit (does this have anything to do with what appears to be a genetic compulsion to want to dress their their men up a certain way? ;)
Women tend to games that involve nurturing and creating rather than the more goal oriented, destructive nature of games generally associated with male players.

What effects will this have on emerging young women?

Labels: Culture, Rants, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 5:36 PM 3 comments

::Rants-I'm trying...

Hey y'all! I have refined my organisational system (SHUTUP! No smart allec comments please!) and part of the process is setting time aside each week to get through some blogs. I have a great little piece of free software called Omea Reader. I can download blog entries and then read them offline.

One thing I would love to be able to do is read your blogs as well. So could I ask all readers of my blog who have their own blog, can you post a comment with a link to your site feed (if you do not know what a site feed is, just leave the address of your site and I'll try and figure it out) for me so I can add you to my weekly fix?

If you have multiple blogs, could you leave just one that focuses more on you and what's going on in your life?

Looking forward to a more organised 2007!

Labels: Blogging, Rants, Technology

Posted by Stephen @ 8:40 AM 14 comments

Ideas have a mind of their own, and when they get together, woa, what a party!