Category: <span>General</span>

Published February 2, 2007 by

Passing Thought on Prudes and the Political Correctness Scene

golliwog.jpgI was uploading a few Noddy books to Ebay and had to note ‘Gollywog Editions’ in my description. As far as my knowledge of books goes poor old Enid Blyton has had a bad run with censorship and her childrens books.

Goodbye to Golly, farewell to Dick and Fanny. I don’t even know what the new kids are called!

Blyton has written some of the most popular books for children of all time. I remember spending hours and hours reading through the Faraway Tree Books and the Children of Cherry Tree Farm.

Kids don’t care about the ‘rudeness’, they don’t know, they don’t see it, they don’t get it. Oh to have a little innocence back! And why the heck do we change and ‘update editions’ of perfectly good stories just because a meaning of a word alters! Political Correctness sometimes just borders on the ridiculous.

Books General

Published February 1, 2007 by

It’s all just falling into place

Should I start getting nervous? Everything is all going far too smoothly.

Last night I “just happened” to be chatting with Isobelle (and Analise-future-housemate was also there). It appears that she needs a few house mates. She also has a flat! It’s out the back of her sister/brother-in-law’s house so there’ll be a little bit of ‘close living’. It’s two Bedrooms and in the exact suburb we were keen on. It may be a little too small for three, so we are checking it out on Sunday. If it all works out we will not have to bother with; real-estate agents, saving up to pay for a bond and expensive rent! It also means that moving out is going to happen a whole lot sooner than I anticipated.

This is very very very very good.

General Life

Published January 31, 2007 by

Up to my elbows

I am going to go mad shortly.

I have spent much of today up to my elbows in messy code, trying to widgetize perfectly nice but perfectly useless blog templates. It just makes sense. All WordPress templates should at least have the option there to run with widgets, they make life a whole lot easier. They shouldn’t be put up for download unless this is the case.

Clearly I have not succeeded, the actual code you have to add isn’t all that much, but then it screws with your design and however much tweaking goes on in the CSS it wont budge.

As for what I’m having a stab at redesigning… well the Advco8 site needs something new and it’s current template is also unwidgetized.

Why not just go for a standard template? Well I do my best to find one that I like but there always issues with font size, random images, headers, colours, positioning… so however close you get there is more that must be changed.

I should just properly teach myself how to make them from scratch.

Design General Widgets

Published January 31, 2007 by

Vineyard Worship

To further the word on the street, there is a new Australian Vineyard Worship Website.
There a few minor little technical issues, but design is nice and the idea and content looks great!

Di’s blog Shared Worship will be moving across there some time in the next little while.

Church General Ministry Music

Published January 31, 2007 by

Smallness

Interesting how fast the world seems to go by. I found this through Say No to Crack this morning and thought I’d have a go at seeing if I could get YouTube to co-operate. It’s stunning stuff, just a pity it’s spoiled by the misspelt ‘piece’ at the end.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.

I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!

He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.

-Deut 32:1-4

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