Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a strange and nasty and underestimated illness. I’ve been suffering with it for the last five years or so. The US Centre for Disease Control has just produced a detailed web site on the subject.
What is CFS? Doesn’t everybody get tired out? The CDC says this:
9 comments November 8th, 2006
Chirag Mehta has taken the written words of US Presidents and plotted a tag cloud of the results. Very interesting. You can watch the rhetoric shift year by year.
Thanks to Andrew Vande Moere (who also has links to similar projects).
3 comments November 6th, 2006
Readings: Deut 6:2-6; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 12:28-34
‘And after that no one dared question him any more’… Interesting. What do you think shuts them up so thoroughly? Are they scared? Confused? Are they silenced by his cleverness? Are they moved in some more obscure and unknown way?
And what of us? What happens in your heart on hearing that great prayer echoing tonight? ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is the one God and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength’. What stirs in you? Anything? Fear? Devotion? Joy? … What?
Add comment November 6th, 2006
There’s a striking short video at the Campaign for Real Beauty website. It critiques the ideal and manipulation of female beauty in advertising while also managing to be an advertisement for Dove beauty products that manipulates images of female beauty. But it’s worth a look–do you feel enlightened or hoodwinked?
Thanks to Brandon
2 comments November 2nd, 2006
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 forms. It can be shown as a block suitable for the body of an archives page, e.g.:
10 comments October 29th, 2006
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 the new page.
8 comments October 26th, 2006
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.
26 comments October 26th, 2006
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.
10 comments October 26th, 2006
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 an option page as the sole method of governing its behaviour. This version lets you override those options on a case-by-case basis with a query-style parameter, e.g., <?php similar_posts('limit=3') ?> limits the output to three posts. The new scheme allows you to use Similar Posts in several different places in you blog with different behaviour. For example, you might want to display a few similar posts under each post on your home page and also have a longer list in the sidebar of your single pages.
Add comment October 26th, 2006
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.
2 comments October 24th, 2006
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