Monthly Archives: July 2007

Connection Debacle Concludes

The story got a little bit worse before it got better. With electricity restored and gas on, I went to try the hot water tap on the off chance that the hot water system had magically taken care of itself. Worse. Not only wasn’t hot water coming out of the tap, there wasn’t any [...]

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Connection Debacle

I’m now pretty much all moved in to my shiny new house. It’s quite a bit further in towards the city than I had been, although still decidedly stuck in genuine suburbia – it cuts about 30 minutes off my journey to work (and the same home again). It’s a lovely little place, and it’s [...]

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Forty Feet Gopher

Wanted to point out a few things of interest on the interweb. The first is to (belatedly) let anyone who didn’t already realise know that Hamo (the National Director of Forge now that Alan Hirsch has taken off for the US) has picked his blogging back up again, and has got already been putting out [...]

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National Disgrace

Mohammed Haneef is likely to be held in detention indefinitely for one of two reasons: because he is the cousin of a terror suspect in Britain, or because he gave his cousin a SIM card before he left the country. And it’s not at the hand of a judge, who granted the man bail, but [...]

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What should submission to leadership look like?

Had Paul and Jas over at Bec’s house last night and got involved into a really interesting chat (as tends to happen when little Paulie is around), surrounding the practicalities of what it means to submit to leadership. Now as it turned out we eventually reached a point of working out that the specific situation [...]

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