I missed entering @VBrich’s prediction tournament for the African Cup of Nations this year. the cup which happens every two years, unless they decide to have it every year (like next year.) Given this lack of competition i have been following like the competition loosely. Performance of the tournament so far has come for Sudan. [...]
2012Tue31Jan
What we watch african football for… (thoughts on football, success & fame)
Filed in events, thinking
So the boss of RBS has been awards a bonus of about £963000, in shares. And people are annoyed. Outraged actually. How can it possibly be right that these rich bankers get big bonuses? I am not sure I share the outrage his bonus payment. In three points 1- It’s in his contract. He has [...]
First Minister Alex Salmond at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today outlined detailed proposals for the referendum in autumn 2014 on whether Scotland should be an independent country. With under 1000 days until the referendum I should I suppose, start thinking about it. My starting point is this… Scotland has no barriers to being able [...]
2012Tue24Jan
Christian Worship, privacy and social media (#deepimpact2012 pt2)
Filed in events, technology, theology, thinking, work. Intro: Been thinking about worship quite a lot since Deep Impact 2012. Partly because i realised it reminds me of spring harvest 20 odd years ago. Partly because it challenged me in an unexpected way. These thoughts are rawish & unexplored. probably containing badly made points so feel free to ignore them. They come [...]
On Saturday evening I was challenged by the worship time at Deep Impact. This challenge caused me to question some things. I did this through my twitter feed On Sunday morning it was brought to my attention by a friend that some people had been offended by my comments. I would like to apologise for [...]
Just wrote a poem
honey…
She stands
Mouth dry
With the bitter taste of iron in her mouth, as if she had just been sucking a cut as a child.
The nervous energy shooting through her veins.
The tingling
The goosebumps
The smile
In perceptively shining showing bravery and joy where there is none.
She is abnormally bright, from her darkness this place is there. She is not there
(but she is)
Sitting at the dentist is nothing,
Yet you cannot help your fear.
She quickens.
In a rush the waft of swimming pool smell fills her. As if she had been holding her nose and her breath too long
Her mouth opens
‘Honey…’
Just added a new plugin to my blog. the WordPress to Facebook plugin allows you to create an app in Facebook and import and export your blog posts and comments to Facebook for Facebook comments to your blog. The previous idea of pulling in the blog posts as notes wasn’t working as Facebook seems to [...]
Laconic Hegemony, vol 6 is available for download from Soundcloud or for listening to live here using the embed below. Vol.6 is a collection of my favourite songs from 2011, (The critera, to remind you, is any music I have heard for the first time in 2011. So the album may not have been released [...]
Laconic Hegemony, vol 6 is available for download from Soundcloud or for listening to live here using the embed below. Vol.6 is a collection of my favourite songs from 2011, (The critera, to remind you, is any music I have heard for the first time in 2011. So the album may not have been released [...]
Cyril 1, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’ and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church is the main reason i celebrate Orthodox christmas. not just to get 2 christmases, oh no. he is the religious leader who looks most like Sant, therefore if he gives up his christmas and gives presents to all the children [...]
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