Posted in home, productivity on Jul 2nd, 2008
I linked to this in Del.icio.us, but it’s too good not to blog about.
Try on How to Fold a Fitted Sheet or How to Fold a Broadsheet Newspaper.
From How to Fold Anything at Real Simple.
Posted in home on May 14th, 2008
This software looks amazing. The system specs are quite high and it won’t run in OS X, although of course you can boot into Windows or run Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
Oh, and Apple have signed with Optus, as well as Vodafone. I am very glad Telstra is not the sole provider (nor, it seems, any [...]
Posted in home on May 12th, 2008
An opinion piece in the WSJ has suggested that the tragedy of Cyclone Nargis may be the most effective thing in years to draw attention to the major injustice done to the people of Burma by their leaders.
Posted in home on May 11th, 2008
An Aussie bloke I don’t know goes to church in Thailand with some Burmese nationals who have contact with the Burmese church. They can get into the country without visas, and so people at the church in Thailand are getting together clothes and medical supplies to take in. Here’s Jono’s blog entry about it.
Please deeply [...]
If you’ve read anything much on this site, you will know how much we love our girl and what a blessing she is to us.
That being said, I’ve been wondering why two days paid work a week seems easy and rewarding and the days as “all mum” seem much more exhausting and leave me feeling [...]
Posted in home on May 7th, 2008
Dan collects hymnals, and he’s just posted some pics, a la J. Mark Bertrand.
What’s the difference between a hymnal, a hymnody and a hymnary? (My muscle memory hasn’t learnt those words for touch typing yet - that last sentence took about a minute to type).
Posted in home on May 7th, 2008
This guy is a legend in the Anglican world, and indeed in the wider Protestant Christian world, and I’ve mentioned the attacks on him here and here.
Here’s an interview where he gives his perspective on what’s happened:
KS: When one is entrenched in this kind of struggle, it can be hard to love your enemies. [...]
Posted in home on Apr 30th, 2008
This post had to have surgery to make the xml of the site feed validate properly. So the code bits don’t quite work at the moment. I’ll fix it soon.
Recently a friend asked about html for his blog. He wanted to know the best way to add links to his sidebar, to other blogs, for [...]
Posted in home on Apr 29th, 2008
A couple of months ago we dug up the garden, turned it over with some manure (poo) and planted a bunch of seedlings and seeds. With all the recent rain, and the even more recent sun, the garden has just popped out.
We have rocket, carrot, broccoli, lettuce, snow peas, basil and chillis. Ben is itching [...]
Posted in home on Jun 16th, 2006
Relax, I’m just getting the Dad-joke thing warmed up. (It’s a Pink Floyd/Radiohead reference).We recently had another ultrasound, and everything is thumbs up. It was a little harder to get the photos this time, because instead of digital images via email, we received an x-ray type print (without and envelope?!). When we asked during the [...]
