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What is using up all my disk space? (Linux)

Running out of hard disk space is a common problem – Linux is not immune! To see your hard disk usage, open up a shell (eg: ‘gnome-terminal’) and run: df -h (the -h option puts the results in a human … Continue reading

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Interesting Wikipedia Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_%28haircut%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_%28plumbing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Special_Person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_misquotations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 (funny international standard)

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Ridley Melbourne

The college where I studied my MDiv has changed there name from Ridley Theological College to Ridley Melbourne Mission and Ministry College. They are undertaken a whole change of strategy and vision under the leadership of Peter Adam. This is … Continue reading

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The Internet wins again

I’ve found out why my computer keeps crashing randomly – very annoying for a linux user! It is because of Antec power supply problems.

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Is Google watching your hands or reading your brain!?

I just realised Google even detects when your hands are in the wrong place on the keyboard! For example, if you are a touch typer, but you accidently have your right hand placed one key too far to the left, … Continue reading

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Reading: David F. Wells, “No Place For Truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?”

Protestant evangelical churches have grown numerically in leaps and bounds in the 20th century. But is all growth good? Is there any case to be made that evangelicalism has “sold-out”? This well-regarded book, over a decade old now, is an … Continue reading

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Website Review: “Whirlpool – Australian Broadband News”

Whirlpool is an amazing establishment. It is basically the place to go if you are interested in the state of broadband in Australia, or anything to do with the internet or computer technology. If you are interested in finding a … Continue reading

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Book Review of Iain H. Murray’s “D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years (1899-1939)” and “The Fight of Faith (1939-1981)”

Martin Lloyd-Jones (MLJ) was a Welshman and one of the great preachers of the 20th century. He famously put aside a bright career in medicine to go into Christian ministry without any formal theological training. He went on for over … Continue reading

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The Future of Television

I have discovered the future of TV. It is beyond BitTorrent, beyond digital broadcasting. What if you could achieve the following: – Watch nearly any TV show at any time in any place – Only requires a dialup connection, not … Continue reading

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Another faddish bandwagon or The End Of The World As We Know It?

I hated the Y2K bug movement. I hated the hype. I laughed at people stocking up on food and water. I worked in the IT industry and everyone in the industry knew it was a joke, albeit a very good … Continue reading

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Instant photocopier!

One reason I bought a cheap scanner was so I could do some simple photocopying. I already have a good black and white laser printer, so I didn’t want to invest in a multifunction printer or photocopier. So with a … Continue reading

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Get Perpendicular!

Sometime soon we will have 1 terabyte hard drives on our home pc’s. And even better, tiny mp3 player microdrives will have 20gig capacity!! This alone is newsworthy, but Hitachi have also been able to provide this marketing breakthrough animation: … Continue reading

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Colin Gunton on the Trinity

These days everyone is writing about the doctrine of the Trinity. It is very popular. I have been reading some Colin Gunton, who is a great exponent of classical Trinitarian theology (ala Nicene-Constantinople Creed), without drifting off into the confusing … Continue reading

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Sermon Series “On Being Human”

This church series is called “On Being Human”. The title (not content) was inspired (stolen) from a series of AFES talks by Philip Jensen. The idea was to lift up peoples estimate of what it means to be a human … Continue reading

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Mini Review of Google Print

Is there anything Google can’t do? They keep doing amazing things. I already love Google Print. It allows you to do full text searches on books, real paper books! e.g.: Do you want to find a quote from Peter Adam’s … Continue reading

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OpenOffice.org 2.0 is out!

Don’t pay money for bug-ridden Microsoft Office! Use OpenOffice.Org 2.0! It fully supports Microsoft formats. It can automagically export to PDF format! (Microsoft have announced they are copying this feature in the next version of Office). OpenOffice.org has a word … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Breezy

I have been using Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy Badger) on my PC for a few weeks now. Ubuntu is nice. I switched from Fedora Linux to Ubuntu Linux in the search to stop my pc crashing, which turned out to … Continue reading

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Has post-modernism self-destructed yet?

Some web sites make me wonder whether the inevitable self-destruction of post-modernism has begun. The first is the “Postmodern essay generator”. Just keep clicking reload on this page to get a different randomly generated post-modern essay. Funny. The second was … Continue reading

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Stott gems on the motivations for world mission

Another Stott gem on an important topic: “How then, can Christians justify the continuance of world evangelization? The commonest answer is to point to the Great Commission, and indeed obedience to it provides a strong stimulus. Compassion is higher than … Continue reading

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Sermon: “Turning to the Goodness of the Living God” Acts 14:8-20

A new sermon in our church series on Acts. “Wayne Schuller – ‘Turning to the Goodness of the Living God’ Acts 14-8-20 11-11-2005 10 30am” I now have a cheapo ebay Asian mp3 player and recorder so it’s easier to … Continue reading

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