Over the last few months and especially in the last few days I have been getting very heavy traffic all aiming at one particular file on another of my sites. The hits are geterated by multiple GET commands for the same file. This results in considerable bandwidth leaching. I have begun using IP Deny for [...]
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John Dyer’s book on technology and spirituality is available FREE today only for Amazon Kindles :) Judging by his blog posts it will be a great read and a stimulating prompt for thought about what technology is doing to our lives. If I could get a Kindle in time this sort of free offer could [...]
The biblical studies carnival(s) is(are) up at Scotteriology. Scot provides both smaller and larger versions, illustrating the dearth of nominations, and the work required to produce a good carnival from all the now huge number of blogs and podcasts dealing seriously with the Bible. Enjoy both the results of nominations: September Biblioblog Carnival: The “Lesser” And [...]
The Thai websitePrachatai (English language section) often has humorous pieces on Thai political and social life by Harrison George. This time in “Frankly Sick” he has a brilliant comment that is more global in scope. Here’s the opening: British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to return from his Tuscan holiday a second time to [...]
AP is reporting the death of John Stott the long-time father (then grandfather) figure of British Evangelicalism at age 90. This is a passing we shall all (at least Anglophone Christians) mourn. Yet, of course, John Stott dedicated the royalties of his many highly popular books to the education of Evangelical scholars in places where [...]
This is not the first post in this series, so to understand “where I am coming from you might read these (if you have not) first: Biblical understandings of human gender: Part One: Beginnings Biblical understandings of human gender: How to read the Bible: Verses are meaningless Biblical understandings of human gender: How to read [...]
I seldom post here about current affairs, I never post about popular culture. I am breaking all the rules here. But I have been thinking a lot recently about humour. Clearly timing is everything, and as part of timing fitting the words or actions to the context. As far as I know, but what would [...]
The war that the West has been pursuing in the Middle East has produced largely debatable results (for the people, the results for the big oil companies may be clearer) but we overlook the “collateral damage”. In Iraq 66 churches have been attacked or bombed since June, 2004. The latest attack (on 31st Oct) cost [...]
Jim West has some funny ideas. Not least about NZ, he really should visit us some time, that way his comments would not look like dilettantism ;) Just the other day, you’ll find it only 39 pages back in his archives (at a mere fifteen posts per page), he posted a piece about New Zealand’s [...]
It has been years since I did one of those answer some daft questions and find out which great theologian you are like thingies, so since some of you have posted these: I write like David Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I tried. But this is all [...]
