I just came across a beautiful post from Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance: the lyrics and video of a great song by Nick Cave. Nick Cave – Into My Arms I don’t believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him …
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Similar Posts for your Content Feeds
The beta versions of the post plugins have been tweaked a fair bit in the last week or so and new options added to all of them. Recent Comments, in particular, has improved. The main news though is a brand new plugin, Similar Posts Feed, which works alongside Similar Posts to add a list of …
Pray-as-you-go
Speaking of Jesuits and podcasting, Peter Scally, SJ was here in Loyola Hall over the New Year — for a Jesuit meeting in preparation for next year’s General Congregation of our Order — and in spare moments recording anyone he could catch to use as voices for Pray-As-You-Go. The curious among you can listen to …
In Our Time: The Jesuits
Melvyn Bragg‘s Radio 4 programme In Our Time covers all sorts of interesting subjects in fascinating depth for a 45 minute show. Last week the subject was ‘Mars – the search for life on the Red Planet’ and in recent weeks the topics have been: Borges – the life and work of Argentina’s best loved …
Sunday Week 2 Year C
Readings: Isaiah 62:1-5; I Cor 12:4-11; John 2:1-11 Here’s a quiz for you… How many times does Mary appear in John’s gospel? … Trick question: the answer is none. The ‘mother of Jesus’, however, appears twice. Isn’t that a strange way to tell the story? It’s not that John didn’t know her name – so …
New Versions of WordPress Post Plugins
Version 2.0.0 beta of Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have just been released. They each have their own page now; they have been tested to work with the upcoming WordPress 2.1 release; and each plugin has its own independent admin options page. Some functionality has been re-jigged, a lot of new …
Feeds Fixed
I noticed about an hour ago that this site’s feeds were not working and hadn’t been working since around December 20th. After checking the source and then deactivating all my plugins one by one I found the culprit and zapped the error. So… feeds should be working again … and I learned a little more …
How To Make Blix Theme Ready for WordPress 2.1
Just a heads up to those out their in blogland who, like me, use Blix by Sebastian Schmieg as their WordPress theme. The upcoming version 2.1 has made some change which mess up Blix’s handling of its navigation bar. The fix is simple and I post it here to allay anyone’s nerves who begin to …
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Best Contemporary Theology Meme
A meme! A meme! No one’s ever hit me with a meme before. Kaloo kalay… Actually I hate the whole idea of memes — at least the philosophical idea that ideas are analogous to viruses. This on the other hand seems more like an invitation than an infection so I’ll pipe down. Crystal at Perspective …
Still Going…
Happy New Year! Contrary to the suspicion of several enquirers I haven’t given up writing here — I’ve just been relapsing a little with the CFS. My useful hours have been spent doing spiritual direction, reading (ever so s l o w l y ) a very good book by Wendy Farley, The Wounding and …