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Update, July 2018

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on July 27, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Update

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 […]

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Who wants to give Facebook their nude pics?

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on June 5, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Society

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 […]

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New (old) notebook day

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 25, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Things

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 […]

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Master list of books I have read

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 21, 2018January 9, 2019
  • Reading

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 […]

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Dead trees make better books

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 16, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Reading

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 […]

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Books I should read

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 15, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Reading

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 […]

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Flamin’ bus is late

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 9, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Everyday Life
  • Link

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)

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Focussing on practice

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 26, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Blogging

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 […]

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The price of knowing good and evil

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 7, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Christianity

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 […]

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