Archive for 2007
I am back in blogland after helping out with our training courses for a month. I always enjoy the thinking and teaching involved though, this year more than the last, it took it out of me and left me with a growing set of CFS symptoms. Most of them are letting up a bit as I recover and I’m on some new meds so we’ll see how it goes.
Among other things I presented a paper to the Loyola Seminar on the cosmology of Ignatian discernment and I might try some of it out here.
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April 4th, 2007
I think I was a little premature in my claim to be back in action. I loved presiding at Mass–it’s where I belong–after a few weeks break but it took a disproportionate toll and I’m still, the morning after, shaking and aching.
February 19th, 2007
Readings: 1 Sam 26:2-23; 1 Cor 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38
Today’s readings are a charter for stupidity and a counsel for failure.
Economics is founded on the belief that value grows by self-interest. Politics is built on the conviction that power must be contained by power and violence met with violence. And the biological science has shown that you just can’t beat tit-for-tat as an evolutionary strategy and way of life. Any population of Jesus-type, turn-the-other-cheek do-gooders will always be overrun by those who get their own back.
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February 18th, 2007
All being well I’ll have a homily to post shortly though I must admit I’m not that happy with it. This will be my first time presiding at Mass in a few weeks of not feeling up to it. I must admit I’m not entirely sure it’s a good idea today either! My brain is still a bit befogged and I’m fretting about whether I’ll remember my words. So time to trust someone else and let him carry the celebration.
February 18th, 2007
Here’s hoping that the worst problems with my web hosting are fixed. I cured the memory errors easily once I knew what was going on — the poorer performance is out of my hands but my host is aware of the issue and promises an improvement.
I haven’t posted very much recently — more CFS problems — but there has been a lot of activity in the comments as I’ve been responding to issues around the various plugins I’ve written for WordPress.
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February 8th, 2007
I apologise for the mess the site is in at the moment. My hosting provider has just moved my account to a new server which seems both slower and prone to give me ‘out of memory’ errors if I activate more than a handful of plugins.
I hope I hear back from them very soon and normality might be restored.
February 6th, 2007
I just came across a beautiful post from Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance: the lyrics and video of a great song by Nick Cave.
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January 20th, 2007
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 related posts after each entry of your blog’s content feed.
January 19th, 2007
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 your’s truly speaking the sessions for January 22-26.
Peter does a really good job gathering text and voice, resonant silence and fine music into a place of prayer.
January 17th, 2007
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 short story writer
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January 17th, 2007
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