I just realised I’ve not posted any sermon uploads here since October – time for an Epic Catchup! 4 December 2011, 9.15 only: On Trial! 11 December 2011, 9.15 only: The Nativity. 18 December 2011: Salvation has been sent (9.15); Salvation has been sent (11.00). 8 January 2012, 9.15 only: Deborah. 15 January 2012, 10.30 …
Tag Archive: tech
Jan
16
2012
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Nov
22
2011
Make your church website suck less
Earlier today, I commented on Twitter that a lot of church websites “make me want to cry“. This spawned a number of suggestions as to why it might be. The simple answer of course is that it’s because so many church websites are just very bad indeed. Now, I’m not a definitive expert on how …
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Oct
30
2011
Sorry Facebook, you crossed the line
I posted a photo on Facebook today that was only visible to a selected group of friends. When one of those friends commented, a friend of theirs with whom I am not “friends” commented, that friend (and presumably all of said person’s friends) was able to see the photo. Sorry, Facebook. Line crossed. If you …
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Oct
06
2011
Steve Jobs: A non-fanboy writes
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple has died at the age of 56 after a battle against cancer. This is a tragedy for his family and friends – I know from my own life (my father died of cancer in his 40s) that cancer is an evil corruption of life and while its ultimate defeat comes …
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Feb
11
2011
Cocked, barrel to head, pulling trigger
This morning, Nokia announced their “Strategy for 2011“. This strategy is based around dropping Symbian (and essentially sidelining MeeGo) in favour of Windows Phone 7. As I said on Twitter this morning (and thanks to those who retweeted it), This morning’s Nokia news is like a man calling a press conference to shoot himself in …
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Jan
12
2011
What is a person worth?
Facebook is apparently “worth” $50bn, based on an investment from Goldman Sachs. Facebook doesn’t do anything, doesn’t produce anything, doesn’t make anything. It is the archetypal dotCom business (and you thought that bubble burst a decade or so ago) in many respects. So, where does its value lie? Facebook’s value is in you, if you …
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Jan
01
2011
Another decade over, a new one just begun
So, having reflected a couple of days ago on my resolutions for 2011, I’m going to look back over the last 10 years, the decade often known as the “naughties”. Year-by-year, what happened in Ogleyland?
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Oct
23
2010
New server, new theme
Within the last 24 hours, my hosting company, BigWetFish have migrated my site onto a new, high specified, UK-based, server. This should improve the performance of the site for all users – and especially the majority who are UK-based themselves. In addition, anyone accessing the site from mobile devices (roughly 20% of users) will now …
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Sep
01
2010
O, won’t you please authenticate me
Yesterday, Twitter disabled the basic username/password authentication for client applications. This is a move toward greater security but it did mean that anyone using Gwibber will suddenly have found that their Twitter stream stopped updating. A mere matter of hours later and an updated version of Gwibber has been pushed out that supports the new …
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Jul
27
2010
The Seven Link Challenge
Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
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