Nearly a year ago, I finally made a move to the dark side (or the light depending on your perspective) and bought an Apple Macintosh computer. After years and years and years of being a Windows user, I basically got fed up with the viruses, the clunky way Windows operated. I needed a new machine [...]
You know how you sometimes bookmark news stories and websites that you think ‘I must blog about that’ and then never get round to it? No, may just be me then. Anyway, here is my oldest ‘must blog about this’ story that I never got around to that stems from 2007. The BBC ran a [...]
I apologise for the recent stuttering nature of posts. The joys of running a Children’s Holiday Club here in my parish took up a great deal of my time in late July, but here I am post-gunge-tank and slowly but surely coming up for breath as church life does quieten (a little) during August and [...]
Like Dave Walker, I recently made the switch from PC to Mac and I’ve been interested and mostly in agreement with his observations. A really interesting little article on the Faith and Theology blog about why sex tells you nothing about what it means to be human. I particularly like the observations on friendship. Covenant [...]
Further to my post yesterday about the future of Church House Publishing, I said that there would be a ‘part two’ in order to cover my questions regarding the new media side of CHP’s work. So here it is! I think the New Media side of CHP’s work is slightly different and I do want [...]
Amongst all that I am supposed to do as an ordained minister is the fact that in my ordination I made a vow to be a good student of all that will deepen my faith and fit me to bear witness to the truth of the gospel. I am also a curate and therefore still [...]
As part of my dissertation work, I have come across an extremely interesting pamphlet called The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte. Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale and he is something of a guru, it seems, on statistical evidence, analytical design and interface design. In the extremely readable pamphlet, Tufte eviscerates the use [...]
I’m less in touch with the bleeding edge of technology than I once was (and I was never that bleeding edge at the best of times) but I was interested to hear the news that those clever technology geeks are working on putting digital projection equipment into mobile phones. There’s some very obvious business applications [...]
I was pleased to see that the people that run the Church of England website are looking for feedback. A survey has been made available to enable users of the site to give their thoughts and opinions… presumably as a first stage of an overhaul of the current offering. The current site, I would guess, [...]
Rob Ryan alerted me to this post by Matt Rees about ‘technology and presence’ featuring a fantastic photo of Barack Obama and his good lady surrounded by a sea of mobile phone screens lit-up while they all try and photograph the moment. It’s an interesting question as to when technology gets in the way of [...]
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