Update, July 2018
It has been so long since I posted anything here that I thought the easiest way to get going again would be to do a general update on where I’m at currently. Reading I’ve been […]
Who wants to give Facebook their nude pics?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been wondering if maybe deleting my Facebook account was such a good move – I’ve found out second-hand about a couple of happenings within my friends and family […]
New (old) notebook day
I have just reached the last page of my previous notebook so rather than crack open a brand spanking new one I’m returning to one that I started using about a year ago but for […]
Master list of books I have read
Last updated: 9 January 2019 This list is in the order of author surname. I began keeping lists of the books I read each year in 2004 but even then did not record every book […]
Dead trees make better books
My 4th generation Kindle device died a miserable death several weeks ago. I was annoyed because I was enjoying a good book when the screen froze and refused to let me read any further. To […]
Books I should read
I already have a list of books I’ve bought and need to read in order to justify spending money on them. That list alone is rather long, but then there are books that I know […]
Flamin’ bus is late
Dunedin has a fairly elderly fleet of buses, but at least they don’t burst into flames with alarming frequency as do the buses in Rome: Why do Rome’s buses keep catching fire? (BBC)
Focussing on practice
I was reading Chris Bowler’s most recent email newsletter today. In the intro to it he makes the comment: It has simply been a matter of waiting and looking for the right things to write […]
The price of knowing good and evil
In Genesis 2:17 God tells Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then in Genesis 3:5 the serpent deceived Eve into desiring the fruit of that tree, so […]
