View from the Potting Shed

Photo by Bill T Miller
Anthony de Mello’s classic book on spirituality, Awareness, opens with these words:
Spirituality means waking up.
Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never […]

In a conversation with a work colleague, Andy, the other week we got talking about our memories of childhood TV.
One of my favourite shows was Rubovia, a Gordon Murray production before the glory days of the Trumptonshire stories. One of Andy’s was The Singing Ringing Tree.
While I had recollections of the name, the images of […]

Photo by Mimiliz from sxc.hu
Conversation just now on Windows Live Messenger:
James: It’s miserable here! Rain, rain, rain!
Gareth: It’s not miserable because of the rain … it’s because you’re in England!
He did know I was kidding … didn’t he?

Amazon Web Services
Day two kicked off with a fascinating presentation by Jeff Barr, who is the Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon. While the presentation wasn’t particularly relevant for the kind of work I do, it was very interesting and did remind me that I want to order the new Danzig album from Amazon when […]

Paul Boag and Brian Kelly chatting at IWMW2007.
We arrived safely in York on Sunday evening, though (unlike Scotland) it was disappointingly wet and cold. Our rooms have no WiFi access so, like other parts of this ancient city, it feels in many ways like being transported back to Roman times. But with more electricity. And […]

York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
At lunchtime today I’m heading down to York with one of my colleagues from The University of St Andrews to the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2007 at The University of York.
Assuming that I can get my wireless setup properly there (unlike at the IWMW last […]

On Friday the blogosphere welcomed a new blog to its fold: Climate Change Scotland.
Started by the Rev Malcolm Rooney (a Church of Scotland minister of The Glens and Kirriemuir Old parish) and Eric Summers (Headteacher of Webster’s High School, Kirriemuir) the blog aims to promote awareness of, concern about, and action on climate change.
Churches and […]