Please read all of this, before you judge me! When I was a young university student, I fell in with a crowd of Calvinists. I am glad I did, because those guys were serious about reading the Bible, and basing their theology on it. During that time, I was introduced to the writings of some…
I have thought many times, over the last several months, that I should have written something here about Brexit. The problem is that I thought there was too much to say. On June 23rd 2016, in a referendum about the UK’s membership of the European Union, 17.2 million people – just under 52% of those…
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, here is my arrangement of St. Patrick’s Breastplate.
In a previous articles on Ubuntu and Mint, I commented on how easy it now was to install network printers on these easy-to-use Linux distros. Dialog boxes opened for easy searching for network printers. But I also noted that I could not get the scanner elements of my multi-function devices to be recognized. However, I…
How many people know the Athanasian Creed today? In the old 1662 Book of Common Prayer, in the Church of England, three creeds were printed, to be collectively read and declared by congregations. There were ther Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. These were used frequently. The Athanasian Creed is longer, and was not used…
I have enjoyed producing books on the CreateSpace platform over the last several years. However, in recent months, we have watched certain features gradually disappear from CreateSpace, while Amazon expanded its KDP publishing service to include paperbacks, as well as Kindle ebooks. The move might be positive, however, in the way it makes me organize…
Cliff’s Four Year Ordeal On Wednesday July 18th, Britain’s best known pop / rock star, Sir Cliff Richard, won his privacy battle against the BBC in the High Court. It was the public and unprovoked nature of the raid – not the necessity of investigating allegations – to which Sir Cliff objected. The background to…
For years, we have all been pretty impressed with mp3s. They gave us access to music in a conveniently small file size that we could download. Software appeared, that could rip CDs into mp3s, so that we could carry our favorite albums on our iPods, or other mp3 players. Gradually, smartphones took over from these…
