Free software for Bible College Students: Part 2

After a good 5 month break, it’s about time for Part 2 in this series.
You know Firefox. It’s a web browser, and like all browsers it allows you to get around the Internet, search google, walldrop on facebook, do banking, and everything else you want to do on the net. There’s probably no reason to [...]

Free software for Bible College Students: Part 1

In my attempt to post helpful stuff on this blog, I’m planning to write a brief series on free software* that other Theological students might find helpful.  There is heaps of really good free software out ‘there’, on the internet.  Most of this software is pretty widely known, however from looking at the many laptop [...]

Unboxed

Received a lovely phone call today, in the form of a delivery of a new Dell Vostro notebook.
This followed on from a much stranger phone message left by a woman, asking me to call <insert what is usually a man’s name> from ING.  It was slightly strange, but I did call back and leave a [...]

Mate, you’re a DipStych.

This week I’ve been on holidays. Since A has been unable to have a holiday with me, I’ve set about a number of projects.
I’ve at last finished a book on church history which I started reading last year. It’s a fantastic, easy to read book and I thoroughly recommend it to every Christian. [...]

“Just google it”

There are few things less troubling than a noun becoming a verb.
However it google is the source of all human knowledge.  In the vernacular of many it is the internet. How often to you hear someone say “I read it on google” rather than “I found it on the Internet” or even “I read [...]

Extremely geeky post

Yesterday I managed to stuff up xwindows on Debian testing during an upgrade.  This post is for the search engines and will hopefully help anyone else who encounters the same problem in the next few days.

ima good speler

If you, like me, have been a little peeved that the Spellbound spell checker for Firefox doesn't work for versions >1.5.0 but don't want to waste valuable screen real estate by installing the Google tool bar, then I've stumbled upon a solution.
The AspellFox extension performs the same job as Spellbound and actually works.
To install this [...]

Feed Me!

A few weeks ago at church camp, I was sitting around having a chat a few friends who have blogs and neither of them knew about RSS feeds. Now that a person doesn't know about RSS feeds isn't too surprising (the current version of MS Internet Explorer doesn't support RSS feeds so the bulk [...]

Google Calendar

Well the big news on the street to day is that google has released a calendar to the public. There's been a lot of action on the internet in the last little while with lots of start-up companies developing calendaring webpages on the hope that google would buy it from them.
Well it's out and [...]

new stuff

I'm slowly working on a new section of this site, which is a howto page. It's not going to be encyclopaedic in its breadth, rather just random things that I work out as I work them out.
If you want to have a look, click here