Archive for August, 2009
When will Book Publishers Get with the times?
I tried to buy two books in the last week or so. One was out of print. The other was on order and is four weeks away because it is on a ship from the States.
The interweb has been around for a while now. Surely, there need not be such a thing as ‘out of [...]
John Howard Yoder
Ever wondered what former PM John Howard did before politics? Apparently he was a Jedi knight and wrote books about pacifism.
I’m reading for an essay on John Howard Yoder’s ethics and I found this pretty amusing.
“Mr. Yoder’s stance reached a wide theological audience when his book The Politics of Jesus was published in 1972. But [...]
Snow Leopard comes out on Friday
I’m going to walk down to the apple store to get my copy after class if anyone wants to join me.
Here are the new things in it for $39.
In particular, this caught my eye:
Bidirectional text.
For languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right [...]
Making MP3 Sermons nice and small
A typical MP3 song will be about 1MB / min. But being speech, sermons don’t need to be nearly as high quality as music. I did a bit of experimenting with the MP3 compression settings for sermons.
I’ve been getting 25 min sermons down to about 6MB, and still very clear and easy to [...]
Website Thinking – Part 1
As I mentioned last post, I have just launched a new website for our church which I am really happy with. It’s far from perfect, but I did think pretty hard about it and I think I’ve avoided many common pitfalls (most of which I’ve fallen into in the past). So I thought I share [...]
Why our churches need a good website
As I’ve been thinking about our new church website, a new thought occurred to me. You probably already knew this, but I’ll share it anyway.
I had been thinking in terms of three groups of users.
1. The local person we’d like to come to our church, they need basic info – where and when – plus [...]
dundasanglican.com.au
Launched my new church website today. dundasanglican.com.au There are still a few pages of content to write, but all the main features are in place and I’m really happy with how its looking.
Gmail for your church
I’m in the process of setting up gmail to handle our church’s emails. Google have a service called Google Apps – it’s free for non-profits – and it allows you to use Gmail on your domain. That’s nice. It means we can have ben@dundasanglican.com.au (rather than ben@gmail.com) etc etc.
There are two factors that made this [...]
