I had an idea for a poem a week or so ago, and this morning I finally got round to writing it down. I’m not normally the type to write poetry, but every now and then the inspiration hits me and I just have to start typing. See what you think…
I can see you
staring back at me
we are so alike, you and I
like two peas in a pod.
(more…)
Just recently I have been studying some of the Psalms, with the help of a big hefty devotional commentary. It goes through the whole Bible in a year, and has some really meaty insight too, which is good. Today’s theme, and actually a recurring one over the last few days, has been trusting in the Lord during times of trouble. David, while on the run from Saul, persecuted, hunted, betrayed, attacked, always remained confident that no matter what happened that God would protect him and achieve His purpose in David’s life. Today in particular I read of how David was hiding in a cave, and Saul his enemy happened to wander in on his own to relieve himself. There was an ideal opportunity to kill Saul and take the throne, or so David’s followers though. But no, David knew that doing wrong was not the way to become king. God had promised that David would sit on the throne, and as such David didn’t have to worry about forcing that to happen – God was in control and would bring about his intended purpose in his own time and in his own way.
Those, according to the BBC report I’ve just watched, are the words of Mr Blair’s ghost, words that will follow Prime Minister Brown around his new house. I don’t normally talk about political issues here, but on the occasion of our country assigning a new PM, it would be a shame to miss out on the opportunity to mark it. Gordon Brown certainly has a lot of work ahead of him – we may not have all agreed with Tony’s policies or decisions, but there is no denying that he was the most successful Labour leader ever, and that’s some trophy.
I spent a fair portion of this morning looking at jobs on the Job Centre Plus web site – while I’m really happy working where I am I feel I could really do with a financial boost right now, what with my wedding just around the corner. Just investigating at the moment, seeing what’s out there. I did find one job that looked promising, although it was full time rather than part time, and after some thought and contemplation I started the arguous task of creating an attractive CV. Ah, good old Adobe InDesign!
Well, after many hours spent slaving over potential designs, I’ve finally decided to stick with my present blog theme after all. I wanted something different, something snazzy, but in the end I was just so devoid of inspiration that anything I came up with didn’t have the pazazz or sparkle that I wanted. I did come up with a nice design that used transparent backgrounds and condensed headings, but it didn’t grab me as much as I had intended, so I discarded it. However, not to be completely defeated, I’ve fiddled with this design slightly, and will be approaching blogging slightly differently as a result – instead of fitting each post into one of four categories I’ll be assigning tags to each post, which means I can more easily talk about a wider variety of things without filling up the “Miscellaneous” category too much! If any of you have any other requests for features, do let me know!
Most of the science I learned at school was reasonably straightforward – I understood it and accepted it, and most of the time remembered it too. Except for potential energy, which never made any sense whatsoever. In fact, I recently told a teacher friend of mine why potential energy doesn’t work, and he couldn’t counter my argument. The following is therefore my thought process in trying to understand and/or disprove potential energy, and may or may not actually include anything scientific.
Sorry, but this rant really has to be voiced now and not left to stew, otherwise it will ingrain itself on my brain forever and I’ll never be rid of it. And I don’t like rants following me around, it’s somewhat disconcerting. So if you don’t like rants, read no further. You have been warned.
Right, today I got some post. Three letters in fact. Nothing unusual about that, except that on first inspection all three envelopes looked identical. That’s odd, I thought, why would my bank be sending me three letters all at once? It was only when I opened them that it twigged what had happened. They were letters informing me of a change to the interest rate on my savings accounts. But rather than sending one letter to the owner of the accounts, they had sent one for each account, regardless of the address! Not only a waste of paper but a waste of ink and postage too. And no doubt there was an innocent computer involved too, using valuable processor time and inconveniencing a significant number of electrons, all to no purpose.
Ok, not the end of the world, but still.
Rant over.
Something got into our pond recently. I’m not sure what exactly, possibly a cat. No one saw the attack, but the evidence speaks for itself – one of our fish was this morning floating on its side with gashes down its side. However, somehow it’s still alive, though only just. In fact, it’s been like this for a couple of days now, and despite its “playing dead” it still lives. Which poses something of a problem, because although it looks dead, it isn’t, so I can’t bury it. It sort of looks like it might be in pain, or ought to be given the wounds, but since it still hasn’t died I’m wondering whether it might survive after all. What do I do?
In a recent survey it was revealed that half of Britons are addicted to their e-mails. This is not something that has been around forever, but a thoroughly modern form of procrastination, and one that is made all the more tempting by the technological advances of recent years. Our e-mails can include images and multimedia, our computers can be set to check for new mail every minute, and we can even access our e-mails on our mobile phones from anywhere in the world (with signal). And now, as if sending e-mails wasn’t enough, the world has embraced the concept of blogging, writing messages not just for a particular recipient but for the whole world. Free blogs allow anyone and everyone to post their ideas and thoughts on the web. Nothing is safe.
Things have been pretty slow here recently, which has meant I have had time to look into a possible new design for my blog, and potentially my other sites too. I’ve been looking at several good web sites just recently, and something that caught my eye is that most seem to have a good sense of continuity in terms of style – if a site has several sections or areas they all retain either a corporate style or a common header to link everything together and make it all feel like it’s part of something bigger. So I started thinking about doing the same for my web sites, which incidentally are mostly completely separate but for their owner, and in so doing ended up rethinking the way I’ve been presenting all those sites.
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