View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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

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 […]