What is a blog?

There is a good discussion going on over at the sola panel about blogging. Started off as a discussion on post-length but its turned into a lively look at the way the whole blog-medium works.

Plainview Browser Released

Plainview, just released by The Barbarian Group, is a full-screen, WebKit based, browser designed specifically for presentations and kiosks. It looks very slick and could be very handy.

Jesus all about life

I’ve heard a lot of talk about the Bible Society’s Jesus all about life campaign which includes a set of TV ads that are coming to Sydney’s free-to-air channels later in the year. But I realised that I haven’t actually seen the ads… so here they are:

Check out the new look sydneyanglicans.net

Check out the new look sydneyanglicans.net/ – Nice work guys.

First essay of the year in without leaving the couch

I just submitted my first essay for the year. An exegesis of those intriguing verses in 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 for New Testament 3.
It was also the first essay I’ve completed more than a day in advance. Due Wednesday, finished last Friday.
But more interestingly, it is the first one I’ve submitted online. The Moore College ‘Learning [...]

Realising the Rostering Dream

Every Church has Rosters. At the churches I’ve been a part of this usually means a spreadsheet document which is handed out at the start of each term which tells you who’s on what each week. Some church go-ers are excellent at writing these dates in their diary and then showing up dutifully when they are rostered on. If they can’t make it, they arrange a swap with someone else and then let the right person know. The problem is, not everyone is like this.

Help me test out Google Forms

The more I think about google forms, the more I like it. I can imagine loads of places where this could be really useful. Help me test it out by filling out this form.

Google Forms

I noticed today that google have added ‘forms‘ to their growing suite of google docs. I gather the idea is that you can attach a form to a spreadsheet and then send it to people or embed it on a web page. People fill the form in and the data is auto-magically collected in the [...]

Anglican Media Launches SX Digital

Anglican Media Sydney launched SX Digital today.
It promises to be a monthly set of high quality news and other videos designed to spice up church notices among other uses. Sydney Anglican Churches will be sent a DVD, or any church can download the segments they want to use.
Watch the first episode here:
SX:digital – March 09 [...]

Safari 4 Beta

Today Apple released the Safari 4 Beta for public download.

With Microsoft’s IE8 almost upon us, along with Google’s Chrome and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox, it’s great to see us moving beyond the browser dark ages and competition heating up again.

With Safari 4, Apple is continuing to push browser technology ahead and is showing itself as a real contender at having the best browser available.

Read on for my impressions.