After almost 30 years of owning the brown and white house on Brenda Street, the older Gears have gone. The past few weeks have been spent watching and helping as loads of memories were packed into boxes and moved into garages. But the reality of it is only now starting to hit home. No more… Continue reading Sadness
Author: Walter
Redeemed by Jesus, married to Steph, father of three beautiful girls. Friend, musician, nerd, appreciator of good food, coffee and the Oxford comma
Making Yum Cha Feel Like Home
Dear friends, koinonos, start their long trip to Sydney. Goodbye for not long.
How We Do It In Australia
Enacted after the tragic mass murder at Port Arthur, Australia’s “National Agreement On Firearms” was a watershed legislative moment. Quoting from Wikipedia: Anyone wishing to possess or use a firearm must have a Firearms Licence and, with some exceptions, be over the age of 18. Owners must have secure storage for their firearms. Before someone… Continue reading How We Do It In Australia
Owning your words
Interesting take from Scott Hanselman on the respective value of social networks vs. self-hosted blogging. Own your space on the Web, and pay for it. Extra effort, but otherwise you’re a sharecropper. – Tim Bray Actually, Anil Dash has posted similar thoughts recently as well. Perhaps there’s something to this whole owning your space thing.
Skyfall
Thoughts on the new 007 movie: – very British – more gritty than even Quantum – diverges hard from Quantum / Mr White / etc storyline Things that mildly amused me: – Voldermort takes over Hogwarts – I kept expecting Macaulay Culkin to pop up with an impish grin as they prepared for the final… Continue reading Skyfall
A spire
Dark foreboding clouds dangle precariously over the waking cityscape. Dwarfed by their scale, a church spire, silhouetted against the low light of early morning, charges upward to meet them.
Protected: Vale
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Protected: The Mills’ Fiftieth Anniversary Lunch
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On Psalming
How To Psalm Like A Verb Step One Pick a range of, say, twenty Psalms. e.g. 40-59 Step Two Speed-read through the first three to five verses of each. You’re looking for the one that most closely describes how you feel now.
Quintessentially 2012
The quintessential image of 2012 in my mind is a crowd of people, all standing around with their heads bowed over their iPhones, coffees in hand, ignoring each other.