Archive for May, 2007

RIP Jerry Falwell

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Jerry Falwell has died at the age of 73. Some of you will be family with him and his work. Here is a retrospective of his life as a hugely influential preacher man. Any comments to stay in this thread.

burning ears

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Hey all. Were your ears burning this weekend? Seems that I spent a big chunk of the weekend discussing/defending/analysing/apologising for signposts and the signposters that make this place fun. But I promise we will actually get around to posting some new stuff. Remember that crazy idea I had to read through […]

social bookmarking

Friday, May 11th, 2007

I have been playing around with facebook and myspace. It came out of a realisation at jeebus that most people had a myspace account. So, not one to want to show my age and in a never ending urge to be trendy - I decided to check out what the fuss was about… ok it […]

Commenting - a reminder

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Information for new commenters, and a reminder for old commenters. We have been having a few hiccups with over-zealous spam software lately. Here is my comment from a thread:
Hey guys. Once again, in order to keep this site running we have to use fairly powerful anti-spam software, which looks for patterns which indicate […]

procrastination

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

I have just found a whole new way to occupy myself instead of doing study. Note to self - buy more miscellaneous sporting equipment.

Busy weekend

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This weekend promises to be a busy one in our household, comprising:

A Kiwi guest
A busy denominational conference
Presenting at denominational conference
A fiery AGM
Working on a thesis
Dinner with friends
Racing a train
Checking out the Joneses

So bear with us if we are not around much over the coming days. Hope your weekend is busy and productive too.

The point of no return

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I have been enjoying the conversation on this post about the kind of sociological tendencies we can observe and how we react to changes in society (at least that is what I think the discussion is about).
As a result I wanted to share some experiences of my workplace. A fairly large chunk of my […]