Life & Hope, Faith & Reality
Normal service has kind of been resumed.
Last week was week 1 of ACC’s Funhouse and I thought I may show you a treat. Here’s one of the intro videos that we made.
Also, for those of you who wonder what exactly is involved in a Sunday morning setup at ACC then check out the video below which was shot by Thai Blogger, ACC member and all round good guy Adrian Oliver.
I’ve had my iPhone 3G up and running for just over a week. And, while it isn’t acting as my main phone yet it giving me a chance to play with all the new features!
A lot has already been written on a lot of websites about it. So, I don’t need to cover any ground there.
So, I’ve been hugely impressed by some of the features, sadly o2’s 3G network isn’t amongst them.
Maps + GPS has been a revelation! It made finding an address on foot in London an absolute breeze! Though I’m seriously hoping that they’ll add Turn-by-Turn in the near future!
3rd Party Applications are a big bonus. As I only have an 8Gb I’m not going OTT on anything! Having said that I’ve got a few favourites Facebook, WordPress, YouVersion’s Bible and Super Monkey Ball.
My final iPhone bonus is MobileMe - Yes, it costs extra and yes, it took it’s time to get up and running. And yes, it isn’t fully “push” like advertised but there’s just something great about modifying a contact or adding a calendar event and instantly seeing it on your Mac/iPhone/Web Browser!
It may be a couple of weeks before normal service is resumed so I thought I’d post something to keep you entertained.
I really think that James Blunt should be praised for managing to get the word hypotenuse into a song.
So, it’s nearly the middle of July and it’s been a bit quiet on the blog. And you know what I’ve kind of enjoyed this mini-blog break. It doesn’t mean nothings being going on, on the contrary - plenty has just I don’t want to reveal it until I’ve had a few more discussions and done just a little more writing.
Just as quick side note - I’m still waiting for my iPhone to activate and it seems I’m not the only one. An article found online says that people have been told they face waiting until Thursday before there phones are activated. It could be me but that’s quite a bit longer than the 2 or 3 days claimed by o2! Oh well…as the Guinness adverts have said for years: Good things come to those who wait.
Having confessed this comical but true story to Jon earlier today I’m going to open myself to more ridicule. At work we have a temporary new member of, voluntary, staff to help out with some of the Childrens & after schools clubs as well as the Church’s playscheme.
Sadly, Jon couldn’t make her induction so it was left to, primarily, my boss, Steve, but I’d been asked to help make her feel at home. It, however was a normal work day so I set about about doing the day to day tasks that I have to do. And that’s when it happened, I had a mental block over a word and foolishly said:
I’m having a blonde moment, how do you spell examining?
Now unfortunately, for me, the new member of staff is naturally very blonde and doesn’t speak English as her first language. I went very red. D’Oh! This was added too by Steve suggesting that I might like to explain what I’d said. More redness, and gneral embarassment as I realised I couldn’t leaving him to explain.
I have learnt a lesson. I looked it up on Wiktionary.
blonde moment (plural blonde moments)
A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.
So, you could say that my blonde moment resulted in a blonde moment. Still, I won’t forget the spelling of examining for a while.
Well, I’m off for a few days in the Sun. Before I go I’ve been working hard providing some reading for you all while I’m away. So, you’ve got 3 proper posts showcasing the best of what this website is about.
Thanks to Josh at morethandodgeball.com for this one.
CBS News in the USA picked up this great story about the $200 burger. I’ll let you read the page for yourself, but let me know what you think.
Thanks to Joe Gisbey from Links International providing a link to this great article from Todd Bentley regarding some of the things happening in Lakeland.
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
H/T Chewing Pixels who originally posted this story.
Fair play for offering people the chance to remix a song in 6/8 at 63bpm and well done to James Houston for coming up with an original way of doing it.
Sorry everyone, it’s been a bit quiet here recently!
I am working on some posts, but they’ve taken a bit longer than I thought they would to write. Hopefully they’ll be up online soon!
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