I just noticed that, as of yesterday, I’ve been blogging for 6 years! On November 2nd 2003 I wrote my first post.
Crazy, eh?
I ended the post with the hope that “perhaps some of it [the content of my blog] will rise above the whitenoise of humdrum.”
Let’s make that the aim for the next 6 years also!
So, Zoomtard has launched a new sub-site where he promises to discuss Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics briefly and a few pages at a time. It’s going to take him at least 5 years! I’m looking forward to it tremendously. He’s doing the world of lazy theologians a great service.
This all strikes me as a great idea. I’m not quite up to so momentous an undertaking as Barth’s CD as of yet but I though I might implement something similar here on my blog. Most Sundays I have a bit of spare time for reading (it’s the only time I get to read some weeks). So, in a blatant ripoff of Zoomy’s idea, I will try to post a short (under 150 words, say) summary/response/thought about whatever I happen to pick up and read on a given Sunday. For Sundays where I don’t have time to read anything I’ll post a short quote of some nature. this way I’ll get at least one post up here a week and I get to have a brief record of some of what I read.
I’ll post the first of these later this evening.
Obviously, when I said “I will remember to take some pictures …” in my last post I really meant to say “I will completely forget my camera”. That was obvious to everybody, right? I wouldn’t want to cause any confusion.
Rome was nice. I’d show you some pictures to prove that but, …
I’ve been busy, as per usual. So – no blog posts, &c.
I’m going to Rome this weekend. I will remember to take some pictures that I can post up here, for your amusement, delectation, &c.
I should get a chance to do some posting over the holidays and next term should leave more space for things like blogging, thinking, sleeping, &c.
I may also tweak the blog theme a little. I’ve grown tired of it as it is.
Etc.
In other news, one of the nice presents I got for my birthday was a small-enough-to-carry-around 2megapixel digital camera which I hope to to put to good use here on the blog.
This is a picture I took out of the car window in Cork a few days ago.
The camera can go higher quality than this, I need to experiment a little to see what suits. It’s a lot better than that tiny toy-camera I was using previously.
I am now getting 20+ spam comments per day on this blog. They, like all comments here, get kept for moderation by myself so you, good reader, will never see them. Still, it is very annoying. If I ever got a real comment I feel sure it would be deleted with all the spam.
Here are a few interesting links that I’ve come across over the last few days:
I thought that I would post a list of various online tools that I use that I have found particularly useful:
If you have found any other online tools to be useful for blogging, or just useful in general, feel free to leave a comment and let me know!
While the posts promised in my last entry here are still cooking slowly over the candle of my mind, I’m busy this week getting lots of mathematics done by day so I can attend the SoundEye Poetry Festival in the evenings. I have posted some brief impressions on what I’ve seen so far on my poetry blog.
Not that any of this is meant as an excuse or anything like that.
I have been playing with that little toy camera again, with a view to put pictures of things from my daily life on the blog.
Here’s a picture of myself:
This is, in part, a test to see if that image will display OK. I have saved it to flickr, rather than uploading it onto the blog via wordpress.
Expect more posts over the next few days.
I have been keeping a `theology journal’ recently, which I update semi-regularly. I think I might rewrite and post some of the heresies I’ve been keeping there.
I also want to talk more about the whole complementarian/egalitarian issue. I have been facilitating a series of bible studies on the topic here at my fellowship.
I may use the little camera, as mentioned above, and snap random bits and pieces. We’ll see if that works out – no promises. I’ve found in the past that it’s impossible to take decent photos with the thing. I suppose I could buy a small cheap-ish digital camera that I could carry around.
I have been reading some N.T. Wright and some Karl Barth, among many other things. I’ll probably have something to say about all of this too.
More?; probably.
I’ve been getting a lot of comment spam on the blog recently. I moderate all comments, so readers will not have seen any of this. Still, I feel warm inside every time I get this particular gem:
“Your site is very cognitive. I think you will have good future.:)”
Sweet, isn’t it?