Monthly Archives: May 2007

Google Reader can now be read offline!

By Geoff | Published 31 May, 2007 12:21 pm

Google Reader has just taken the jump from being a purely online feed-reader to providing functionality that allows me to read any of my 2000 last Google Reader subscription items without needing to be online. It does this through what is ultimately a browser plugin: “Google Gears”. Once you install the Google Gears plugin – [...]

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What I’m…

By Geoff | Published 30 May, 2007 12:09 am

I don’t know if I’m the only one who ever did this, but I regularly read The Age’s “Good Weekend” and used to always love the “What I’m…” column bit. So this is my crack at filling in blog readers who have been in veritable starvation for quality GeoffRe(y)port content of late, and hopefully finding [...]

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Theology of Blessing

By Geoff | Published 20 May, 2007 11:27 pm

A brief moment of reflection this evening has left me with another thing to ponder over. If we accept the following two bases: That Jesus showed that God does not give out financial rewards as blessings for those who honour him, but that God instead has an inclination to the poor and the oppressed – [...]

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Google Ethics™

By Geoff | Published 15 May, 2007 5:31 pm

Heard an interesting thing on Radio National last night (yeah, I know, what a fuddy duddy), about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. The part that intrigued me (more than the other parts that just made me want to cry) was that they described the fact that South African President Thabo Mbeki was thought to have [...]

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Wrath, Sin & Grace – An Exercise In Theology On The Run

By Geoff | Published 14 May, 2007 1:52 pm

Last Wednesday night saw Rebecca and I visit the bible study/home group of Ros and Andy in Richmond, and a really good discussion stemming from things they’d been discussing in previous weeks and that came up from the passage we were looking at. The notion that God’s wrath is often expressed in leaving us in [...]

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