God in a Box part II

Olof sent me the URL for an article: Physics and Faith: The Luminous Web by Barbara Brown Taylor.  It's an interesting one and worth reading, it got me thinking.  Hubby listens to the radio preachers even when he disagrees with them, because they make him work out why

Psalm 23

Take a look at these versions of Psalm 23, the programmer's one and the workplace version are great The Lord is my programmer, I shall not crash. He installed his software on the hard disk of my heart; all of his commands are user-friendly. His directory guides

God in a box part I

It bugs me to hear preachers on the radio try to use science in their sermons and get it horribly wrong.  It's embarrassing.  If you don't know a quark from a muon, don't pretend you do.  Stay away from the second law of thermodynamics

Tired

Courtesy of AOL and someone Hubby used to work with, we saw LOTR "The Two  Towers" last night for free.  It started at 10pm, we were queuing from 7:30 pm and the hold out line had already filled one and a half rows.  Loved what they did

Dalek

It's amazing the terror the BBC props department could create using an oversized grey pepperpot, with a couple of Morris Minor indicator lights on top, wielding a sink plunger and trundling towards the camera screaming "Exterminate!" in a croaky electronic voice.  Spot one of those down

Demonopolised

We have transferred this domain name, another one has left the Evil Empire.  All three domains with our name on are now at Domain Direct.  Feels good.  Anywhere but Verisign would feel good, and these guys have done well on the other two domains. (Thank you Grammar Police, mistake corrected.

@ what?

BBC News report, the French have tried to rename the @ symbol Controversy has erupted in France after the linguistic authorities gave the @ character a name no French email user has ever heard of.  Until now, the French have had a choice between "arobase", a popular word derived from

The Poetry of Programming

Read an interview with Richard Gabriel, a Sun engineer, linked from IdeaJoy.  ThinkGeek has the perfect t-shirt for this guy: Code Poet. Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry. When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular

Things that make you go "Hmm"

I don't know who it was that landed on this site via a Google search for Intellij and chainsaw, but they sound like my kind of person.  My blog comes up top on that search.

Where the Brits are

We're not too hard to find.  I can vouch for the Britishness of Hubby, Paul B, Jess, and my big sister Fiona.  Other Brits on my bloglist are Simon Warren, Gary Turner, Burnt Toast, and Lionel Mandrake. But if you wanted to play Hunt the BritBlog, this is