News feed

News feed

I think that the online world tends to cope better with happiness than sadness. This is a generalisation of course, and generalisations are usually wrong. That said people will rally round on your Facebook page during times of trial, so perhaps it depends more on the nature of your happiness or sadness. The same is…

Advice on having ideas

Advice on having ideas

No-one knows where good ideas come from. You can go back to the place that you had the last idea in the same frame of mind and order the same coffee and the likelihood is that you will just stare out of the window with a blank sheet of paper. The harder you try to…

Making nice graphs about the Bible

Making nice graphs about the Bible

Hey, look at this: (Diagram showing co-occurrences of names in the New Testament) This is from a site called ‘Many eyes‘, which enables you to look at data in interesting ways. Your computer might need a special widgetty-thingummy, I don’t know. Here are some interesting ones I found done by Crossway, who are Bible-related people….

God's plan

God's plan

A lot of Christians talk continually about ‘God’s plan for our lives’. I have the following problems with this idea: It does not really seem to be a concept that the Bible endorses that much. Sure, you can dig up the odd verse here are there which says that God has a plan for someone’s…

God’s plan

God’s plan

A lot of Christians talk continually about ‘God’s plan for our lives’. I have the following problems with this idea: It does not really seem to be a concept that the Bible endorses that much. Sure, you can dig up the odd verse here are there which says that God has a plan for someone’s…

Walking the M62

John Davies has a new blog which will document the two month walk he is planning for his sabbatical in 2007. He will be walking along the approximate route of the M62, the motorway linking Hull with Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, and Liverpool. But why walk the M62? Many people given the chance for three or…

01:02:03 04/05/06

The time is now 01:02:03 on 04/05/06. Yes, I stayed up for it, but I was doing some work. Honest. I bet diamond geezer stayed up too. Update: Yes, he did. The BBC Magazine website has more.