Archive for October, 2004

The Church Invisible

Monday, October 25th, 2004

I’m currently reading this novel by Christian writer Nick Page. It brings together a lot of good current thinking and research into why the Church is failing. I included quotations from it in my sermons at both St Salvador’s, Stenhouse and the Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield these last couple of […]

My first Valid XHTML 1.0 document

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

Ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Today I validated my first XHTML 1.0 Transitional web page. (I’m almost in tears with delight, as I type… Not really. *nods a little bit* *shakes head* *nods*)

Hoorah me! Although, if I’d been a genius I’m sure all my HTML documents would have been validated […]

IQ

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

I clicked a link somewhere on the New York Times website and ended up on an IQ quiz page.
Turns out I have an IQ of 133. Apparently they used science, so it must be true.
According to Terman’s classification (I have no idea what that means either) an IQ of 120-140 is “Very superior […]

Prayer

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

I found this quotation by the Roman Catholic Theologian John Shea, in a paper printed in the Spring 2004 edition of Theology Scotland journal:
Prayer is a process of dismantling our protective devices so that we can adjust to the divine energies.
Prayer is a process — it doesn’t all have to be done right now.
Prayer is […]

Firefox t-shirts

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

I was a little worried about seeing this t-shirt on the Firefox website this morning. Does wearing it make your head, arms and legs disappear? I presume that the label has the following printed on it:

<style type=”text/css”>
head, arms, legs {
display: none;
}
</style>

p.s. that’s a geek joke!

The web will never be the same

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

“November 9th. The web will never be the same.”
So I’ve been told. And do you know what? I somehow believe them.

NYCgb sneak-peek

Monday, October 18th, 2004

http://www.exnycgb.org.uk/nycgbcss/
I’m working on a new design for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain’s website. And the link above is where I have got to so far. It is written in XHTML and CSS, with a DHTML/Javascript drop-down menu.
The more web design work I do the less impressed I am by Microsoft Internet […]