Tiger Woods On Golf Technology
Iseekgolf has just put up a fascinating interview with Tiger Woods, where he talks about Nike Club development, golf technology and the things average golf consumers should be thinking about in terms of clubs.
Books That Never Were
Over this week my mind has been pondering the failed book proposals I have persued over recent years. Whilst I had a few ideas at theological college, these were tentative and didn’t get a very warm reception at all. In fact at theological college I made the same mistake I made in my first years [...]
Tate Britain Gets It Wrong
Like many others, I am aghast at Tate Britain’s decision to remove John Latham’s “God Is Great.” The piece is thoughtful and refects a fairly common position on the nature of monotheism that many hold in western societies. As a Christian I do not agree with the premise of the work, but can hardly imagine [...]
Doing The Virtual Housekeeping
Most of today has been spent tidying computer files. In particular I have been activating the backup facilities of my .mac account and figuring out how to manage the syncronisation between the Powerbook and iMac. The external 250GB firewire drive is proving very helpful as a shared drive between the two machines for image and [...]
What Coffee Do You Worship?
Kyle Potter has picked up on the above graphic, which some are using to describe differences in church worship styles. He makes some good points about the problems in describing worship styles in knowingly “post-modern” ways. To me the problem with the graphic is that it buys uncritically into an attractional understanding of worship. What [...]
Not Quite A 4-5-1
Don Howe has an attempt at explaining the 4-5-1 system that is dominating the English Premiership, over on the BBC’s football pages. Howe misses the mark through not adeqately outlining the transition roles in attack and defence. More importantly, he fails to grapple with the fact that modern systems employed by teams like Chelsea, Barcelona [...]
Fox News Eats Itself
I have previously commented on Fox New’s appalling lack of sensitivity in covering the London Bombings. Well it seems the recent disaster in New Orleans may have prompted a shift in their on air presentation. Whilst catching up on Lawrence Lessig’s blog (where you will find a lot of Katrina-relatated commentary) there was a fantastic [...]
Street Prophets: Religion And Politics
Thanks to Rudy at Urban Onramps and Bruce at Mainstream Baptist for highlighting the new blog community Street Prophets, from Daily Kos’ own Pastor Dan. You have to create an account in order to comment (I’m waiting on mine to come through), but on the flip side it looks like it will a lively and [...]
Reconstruction
One of the things I miss, as a consequence of being here in Delhi, is access to good art-house films. So, on my recent trip to London, I just had to pick up some new DVDs. Amongst these was Reconstruction, the first film from director Christopher Boe and for which Manuel Alberto Claro won the [...]
The Podcast I Would Like To Hear
OK, so it is not a cutting edge new appliction of technology, but I would love to receive Garrison Keillor’s Prarie Home Companion as a podcast. It seems, according to their FAQ that the issue is with how to fairly deal with the music copywright, which is fair since the guest musicians are such an [...]
Arranging 3
Today sees me starting the Arranging 3 course with Berklee’s on-line school of music.
Knowledge And Power: The Changing Face Of Church
Ryan Bolger has made two great comments (here and here) on the way access to knowledge and opinion through the web may challenge the role of leadership within the church. I think Ryan is onto a very fruitful and necessary line of thought. The whole question and “culture” of leadership needs to be rethought in [...]
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
No, I’m not a jelly doughnut; my allusion to President Kennedy’s famous Cold War speech has to do with the new “Berliner” format for the Guardian Newspaper. I picked one up on Monday on Fulham Road and it passed the “cafe-test” at Bibendum with flying colours. Much easier to naviagte around coffee and crossaints. However, [...]
Back From London
After an all too short sojourn in London, we are back in Delhi. Sadly, we simply didn’t get to visit anywhere near as many people as we had hoped to see, with L having some work commitments and C unwell for a few days with a cold. However, we will be back for 2 weeks [...]
Flying Away
Flying out in a few hours for London, where we will be for just under two weeks. L will be on a conference for a future days and the main features for me are a match at Stamford Bridge and catching up with friends. Oddly I am feeling the same kind of preflight tension I [...]
Some Incomplete Throughts On Katrina
It has been deeply saddening to watch the devastation of Katrina on the South Coast of the USA, and then to watch to the suffering of those left behind. Like many people around the world, I have been stunned to see the scenes of anarchy on the streets of New Orleans and to see the [...]
Updated Music Profile
Just finished updating my profile with Berkleemusic. Check it out and tell me what you think (yes, I know I need a better photo).
Musician, essayist, photographer, cinephile, former resident of Santiago, Sydney, London and Delhi.