I’m sorry if anyone came visiting in the last 12 hours or so and found a bunch of gobbledygook in place of this site. My host was ‘having a database outage’. Service has been resumed and seems normal but a little slow. Let’s hope it settles.
Category Archives: Thoughts
11 Years Old Today — Well Almost
Quite by chance (I was fiddling with the archive page) I noticed that the first post on this site is dated exactly 11 days ago today. I’ve never really thought about how long I’ve been posting stuff on the web in one form or another. I started with some components for the Delphi programming language. …
What Passes For Humour Among Philosophers
I came across something to start my day with a laugh (or at least a wry smile) as I browsed the various feeds I’m subscribed to. Unfortunately I can’t give credit to the referrer since I’ve forgotten who it was. (I know … only an hour or two ago but that’s a problem of ME/CFS). …
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Scripture References for Homilies
I’ve just installed the Scripturizer plugin by Dean Peters et al. I’ve long wanted to include links to the scripture texts that give the liturgical context for my homilies but been daunted by all the fiddling involved. Scripturizer lets me just insert the scripture references and takes care of the linkage. I’ve tried it out …
Empires of the Middle East
If you like animated maps of great swathes of history take a look at what’s been going on in the Middle East for the last 5000 years.
A Word of Caution When Changing Domains
In my recent move I transferred the contents of this blog by using the WordPress XML Import/Export plugin developed by Aaron Brazell (from code by Matt Mullenweg that is being developed for WP 2.1). It basically did the trick as you can see from this working blog however there is a snag. Although it produces a working …
A Few Blips
Well the plugin I put together to handle redirection from the old site to the new was working great until I thought “let’s tidy it up and make it presentable”. So I had to spend a couiple of hours messing everything up. I hope normal service has now been resumed! If it has I’ll post …
Testing, testing, testing…
Well this is my old blog in a new location. If you visit the old location you should automatically be sent here … at least for a month or so until I close the old one down. Please update your bookmarks if you have any. This post is also a test to see what happens …
Changing Address
Until now this blog has been living at http://rmarsh.com/ but with a web redirect from my ‘real’ domain http://rmarsh.com/. Unfortunately I’ve been having problems with my domain registrar’s email forwarding and have decided to make a move. This is where the trouble begins! My blog will continue to be accessible from http://rmarsh.com/ but will shortly cease …
Paying the Price
I’ve been indulging a guilty pleasure for a few weeks: watching my way through the DVDs of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘. I’m trying to spin it out now that I’m closing in on the final episodes so maybe some theological reflection on the topic will help delay me. ‘Buffy’ is full of insights that jog …