Blog
Apr 2008
24
Website compression
I just found a helpful article about compressing website pages automatically using .htaccess here . This reduced my page size by at least 75%, a big (and safe) help for viewing pages fast. My next sea..
Apr 2008
21
Computer viruses
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image..
Apr 2008
18
Assurance
I had a long conversation last night with a good friend about various theological topics. Some of them will find their way on here, in time. The first of them is the doctrine of assurance. How can we ..
Apr 2008
15
ESV Study Bible
Coming soon to a store near you... with over 25,000 notes, over 80,000 cross-references, and over 200 maps. The layout looks brilliant. Let’s hope the anglicized edition looks as good! ESV Study Bible
Apr 2008
13
Using svn:externals
After learning most of the basics of subversion, I discovered I had missed one of its most useful features: svn:externals. This allows you to checkout multiple repositories into one location. For a mo..
Apr 2008
11
Computers
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. Andy Rooney
Apr 2008
10
Baby born with two faces
This is a rather unbelievable story about a baby girl in India who was born with a rare condition called ‘craniofacial duplication’. I assume that this story is real, as it wasn’t released on April Fo..
Apr 2008
9
Common Worship Ordination
I have to confess that there are many parts of the Church of England’s new Common Worship services that I don’t like. The Baptism service, for example, is hugely long, overly complicated and (I think)..
Apr 2008
3
Quality vs. price
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. John Ruskin
Apr 2008
1
Humility and the popes
Susie and I recently returned from a few days in Rome, courtesy of her great aunt. I have wanted to visit the Eternal City for years, mostly to see the Roman ruins, which are, well, ruins, but still s..