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Category Archives: Computing
Church Website
Well, after 2 years of blood, sweat and tears, the new church website launched on Friday. It’s not ready, it’s not finished, but it is live. My friend Innes put a huge amount of effort into designing the site – … Continue reading
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The Great Lent Challenge
OK – so I’m a few days late getting this posted, as Lent started on Wednesday, so I apologise. A couple of years ago for Lent I committed myself to posted on a daily basis. This year, I want to … Continue reading
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Some things worth looking at
Suddenly realised I had a whole load of stuffs that deserved pimpage on the ‘Moose. If you like your detectives hard-boiled, and your dialogue fast-paced and witty, then look no further than Black Jack Justice from Decoder Ring Theatre. 30 … Continue reading
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A 6 Month Retrospective
I reckoned it was about time to write a decent retrospective of the last 6 months in the life of mrBen. It’s been an extremely hectic and tumultuous time, but, as these things tend to be, quite important. I’ll try … Continue reading
The Zen Touch lives again!
I have a Creative Zen Touch and I haven’t used it in AGES. For the life of me I can’t remember why. Oh, that’s it, I was re-copying all my music onto the pc as .ogg format and not .mp3. … Continue reading
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ITV Player – Get your act together
Despite my previous posts about the joys of Jeremy Kyle and his show, The Jeremy Kyle Show (get that man an award), I still find myself hypnotised by the infernal ringmaster and although I’m not able to watch the antics … Continue reading
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Facebook, no more
Well this morning I finally did what I was telling myself I would do since before Christmas; I have finally let go of the insidious grasp of Facebook. I’ve closed all applications, changed my settings, and deactivated my account. I … Continue reading
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Projects that didn’t really get finished last year
Last year, I posted a list of projects I wanted to complete in 2008. How did it go? Well….. not brilliantly: MythTV – box didn’t get touched, let alone back up and running, although it did see use at Camp … Continue reading
Dual Screen Ubuntu
Wanted to put down some useful things I have learnt about dual-screening in Ubuntu since I moved over to working under Linux full-time at work (and thus using a dual-screen environment more consistently). 1. The Intel driver for their gfx … Continue reading
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I didn’t meme to
Thanks to Kyle. In a vision John sees Jesus speaking to seven different churches. I happen to just be back from an Alpha meeting, and so the closest book was Questions of Life by Nicky Gumbel. The rules for this … Continue reading
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Catchup
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted. And there’s _loads_ of things I could say, but I’ll make do with a few catch ups: New phone – got myself a Nokia 6500 Slide phone on a contract from … Continue reading
Uplink on Hardy
There’s a small games studio in the UK called Introversion Software who have, over the past couple of years, quietly produced some of the most interesting games around. Moreover, their games all run not just on Windows, but Mac and … Continue reading
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Tim Keller speaking at Google
(culled from The Resurgence) A truly fascinating video (particularly the Q&A session at the end) of Tim Keller, a Christian author and apologist, speaking at the Google campus, as part of their Authors@Google series. He’s talking a bit about his … Continue reading
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Classic Yak Episode 1
Classic Yak Episode 1 (“Things to Sing in Lakeland When You’re Dead”) is now available! You can download it direct from ClassicYak.org or listen from the streaming media player. You can subscribe using your podcasting software from one of the … Continue reading
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LugRadio Live 2008 Review
OK – it’s been a bit late coming, but I thought I really ought to pen some words about LRL this year. This was originally billed as the end of LugRadio. However, while the podcast has now finished, it was … Continue reading
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Dr Horrible
That is all mrBen PS – Why did no-one tell me about this sooner?
Logging PMs in irssi
I’ve been a long time user of the irssi IRC client, and for a while now I’ve been wondering if I could log all my private messages without having to log all the channel history as well. I log all … Continue reading
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The end of an era
OK, so I’m a bit late blogging about this, but I wanted to do justice to the subject. Other people have written great posts on their blogs (not least Jono, Aq and Adam from the presenting team, and community luminaries … Continue reading
Tips for 419 scammers
Got this in my inbox recently, but it’s so full of basic errors that it’s just not funny anymore. Hints in bold: from London Metropolitan Police Dept. OK – it’s a good start, but you should’ve checked that metropolice.gov.uk actually … Continue reading
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Back from Hols
OK – I’m back from a week away at my parents, and I have 2 big things I want to talk about. The announcement of the end of LugRadio could, I guess, be rolled up in this post, but I … Continue reading
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