Description My blog has posts going back over 11 years and the archive of posts by month in my sidebar was getting very much out of hand. In the search for a more compact way of displaying the monthly archive a plugin was born. Compact Archive displays the monthly archive of posts in two compact …
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Recent Comments: WordPress Plugin
Update 13th January, 2007 Recent Comments Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes better retrieval of comments, some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to …
Recent Posts: WordPress Plugin
Update 13th January, 2007 Recent Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page. Version …
Random Posts: WordPress Plugin
Update 13th January, 2007 Random Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented. Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page. Version …
Similar Posts: Version 1.10
I’ve uploaded a new version of Similar Posts. It allows you to exclude particular authors (if you have a multi-author blog), to specify the text that is shown when no matches are found, and to display the output as, for example, a comma-separated sequence rather than a html list. Previous versions of Similar Posts used …
Tuesday Week 29 Year II
Readings: Ephesians 2:12-22; Luke 12:35-38 Paul is falling over himself with metaphors today, mixing and matching like crazy, but all to one end: the urgent communication of a distance dwindled to nothing. In Christ, foreign has become familiar. In Christ, two become one. In Christ, distance becomes closeness; hostility, harmony; war, peace. We are now …
‘Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching’
That’s the title the London Review of Books gives Terry Eagleton’s savaging of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It’s a guilty pleasure to read something as well-written (pleasure) and scathing (there’s the guilt). He begins: Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and …
Sunday Week 29 Year B
Readings: Isaiah 53:10-11; Hebrews 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 I was watching a rerun of the West Wing the other evening, right back from the first series, and there was President Bartlett delivering an impassioned pep-talk to his daughter ZoĆ«. She was about to leave for College and the passion flowed as the president grappled for words, …
Sweetgrass and Grace
Sweetgrass is used by certain Native American tribes as a kind of incense. Dried and braided, lit and snuffed, it smoulders with a sweet smoke that is used in ‘smudging’, blessing a person and making a space for prayer. I had the good fortune to worship on the reservation several times when I was in …
Darwin Online
Thanks to the University of Cambridge the complete works of Charles Darwin are now available online and very popular, amassing 150,000 hits in 11 days. You can see facsimiles of his Beagle notebooks. It makes me very happy to see how bad his handwriting was… The Independent today printed some extracts and got Richard Dawkins …