Recently I posted an article on the facebook group Club Theo < and a member quoted me, writing: Hi Will, I like what you said here:“The resurrection can thus be seen the Father’s act to honour the son’s act of self-sacrifice – and to bring not only Christ, but all those he counts as “his” [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Private Parts
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Another of my hobby-horses. See this article by Bruce Schneier which gives some perspective on privacy and surveillance in society. I particularly like this quote: You cannot evaluate the value of privacy and disclosure unless you account for the relative power levels of the discloser and the disclosee. If I disclose information to you, your [...]
Copywriting
Thursday, March 6th, 2008In my ongoing attempt to see the debate on copyright and “intellectual property” interact in the realms of sanity and clarity, I present this link: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars A quote: Getting users to stop sharing files and circumventing DRM is likely to prove just as hopeless as getting squatters to leave their homes. There are now millions [...]
The Inconvenient Unity
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008My rss feeds have been full recently of events in the global Anglican Communion. Dioceses are leaving their provinces and parishes are leaving their dioceses. Bishops are declining invitations to attend this year’s Lambeth Conference. There have been inhibitions (injunctions against clergy) and legal wranglings. Even wise stalwarts of the faith are being dragged into [...]
Caution G33k @ \/\/3rK
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008This falls in the “fun” category… well fun according to my slightly warped categories anyway.Behold the joys of linux and a new discovery – xplanet. It’s my desktop background. It’s centred on Tasmania. It updates the rotation and dark/light as appropriate to time of day and date. And it updates the satellite cloud image every [...]
Atpwned for
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008A friend of mine (blatant name drop alert!) passed this URL on to me: http://cheatneutral.com. It contains this video which explains it’s satire on the carbon-credit trading system. But you’ve gotta see the sermon fodder! Find someone to take the “penalty” for your indiscretion (“sin”) because they are “faithful.” Sound like anyone you can think [...]
