30
Jun
Happy birthday!
Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity is 100 years old today. It was published in a paper entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” on June 30, 1905.
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Posted at 17:08 on 30 June 2005.
19
Jun
Beeping Watch!
Listen carefully to the second last song “In You I Stand” on Hillsong Church London’s CD “Shout God’s Fame”. Towards the end you can hear somebody’s digital watch beeping…
17
Jun
The Way of the Spirit is on the move…
I’ve just sent off the latest e-newsletter for The Way of the Spirit this afternoon, which is being delivered even now as I speak, and has successfully reached my Gmail inbox, so at least I know the system is still working. I’m sure you’ll all wish Richard George well in his next step. Quite what it all means for yours truly remains to be seen — you’ll just have to watch this space. Plug my blog’s RSS feed into a news reader program (I use SharpReader) if you want to be the first to know.
15
Jun
The new KF website is about to go live
The new Kingdom Faith website is about to go live, once the DNS transfer percolates its way round the Internet. This is a process that usually takes 24 hours or so, though it was a lot quicker than that with jamesmckay.net a few weeks ago. I’m holding my breath and hoping and praying that it all works as well as the beta site.
My next task is to get the web shop up and running by the end of this month…
Update 20/6/2005: The site has finally gone live now. Sorry for the delay — it seems one of my e-mails went missing!
13
Jun
All change at my blog
It’s all change round here. I’ve finally taken the plunge and installed some new blogging software on the server. This should give me more control over my blog, and of course it means I can get rid of the Blogger bar at the top, which I do not particularly like. I particularly dislike the “next blog” button. It takes you to someone else’s blog completely at random, and since some of these are rather dubious to say the least, it’s not the kind of thing I want to have on my web pages. Please bear with me while I import my old Blogger entries this evening. (Update: all done! Unfortunately I haven’t managed to import the comments – sorry about that…)
I’m also planning to start up a second blog at some stage, when I get a bit of spare time. I say “when I get a bit of spare time” because it will be much more technical in nature — computer programming, web development, science, technology, maths, that kind of thing — and is likely to be over the top of the heads of some of my friends and family, for whom this blog is particularly intended. As such, the entries are likely to require more careful preparation, so it will be more time consuming, and not so much a case of a quick five minute entry in my lunch break.
One other thing. All comments on this blog will be moderated, so don’t be too upset if yours doesn’t show up immediately. I won’t reject them unduly, though the rule of thumb here is that I’m not letting anything past that I wouldn’t want my youngest relatives to read.
13
Jun
Car update 1 @ 7 days
Well I’ve just filled the car up with petrol again, and here are the figures after six days of motoring. I put in 19.8 litres of petrol at £17.02 after having driven 122.1 miles, most of it town driving. That works out at about 28 miles to the gallon, or more than 1½ times better than the old car, which was only managing a measly 17. Talking of which, it’s a long shot, but does anyone want a 1993 Renault Safrane 2.0 Automatic with no MOT, no tax, and a dying gearbox? (Sits back and waits for someone to post a comment saying, “What’s a Renault Safrane?”)
09
Jun
Plagued by telemarketers? Try this…
I got so sick of telemarketing calls and so on that I signed up for anonymous caller reject on our home phone number and the Telephone Preference Service’s do not call list a couple of months back, and so far it’s proven to be quite effective. However, this makes me almost wish I hadn’t–it could be rather entertaining to try it out:
07
Jun
I'm mobile again!
Praise the Lord! We now have a car again. Thanks to my uncle Alex for his generosity, and thanks to everyone who has given us lifts over the past few months. It’s a green Peugeot 406, and much to my delight it is manual transmission. I’ve been driving automatics for years and was thoroughly sick of them.
I also bought a couple of domain names yesterday — completely on impulse — jammycakes.com and jammycakes.net, which, much to my surprise and delight, were both up for grabs. Not quite sure yet what I’ll do with them though. On the one hand they could be worth a bit of dosh (any offers?), but on the other hand I use jammycakes in various places as a kind of Internet alias, so I may just hang onto them. Why jammycakes, I hear you ask? Simple. It’s an anagram of my name 
Feel free to take a look round the site — if I
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