Monthly Archives: August 2009

Twitter can’t be completely meaningless…

After all, it’s just won me this book! Penguin Books (on Twitter) wanted people to tell them which of their new releases they wanted, and I was one of the first nine to reply!
Twitter and slow-work day: it’s a winning combination!

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Decreasing the Geoff to Universe Ratio

All throughout my school years, I was skinny: proper skinny. Naturally, this allowed me to pick up a bunch of habits that really didn’t help me once the body stopped being as co-operative. So for the past seven years my weight has been increasing fairly steadily. About 2.5 years ago I hit an unfortunate milestone [...]

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Taking credit for calamity

I’m feeling very displeased. There are few things that make me more frustrated and annoyed than seeing Christians sink to wanting to use some kind of disaster to prove why their point about theology is true and accurate. Even worse: the man participating in these actions is not an easily ignored wacko like the (God [...]

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Change to Comments Settings

Just a brief FYI – have changed my comments settings so that you have to have an approved comment before it will show up on the blog. Once your comment has been approved once, the problem goes away. Been getting a lot of spam getting through and I don’t really want to let those people [...]

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Top 5 reasons it is fun to have friends with kids

One of the fun things about the last little while is that our social circle has altered a little bit to include a number of friends with young kids. With that comes a bunch of complications, but I thought I’d put together my “top 5 reasons why it is fun to have friends with kids“.

Someone [...]

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