Author Archives: Elizaphanian
TBTM20100405
Task for the week: finish the book. Word count is presently a shade under 55,000. I don’t expect the word count to change significantly, but hopefully by the end of the week it will look much more polished.
In the mean time, some links:
The implications of unmeasurable capital
The Shirky principle (“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”) See also the linked article on the collapse of complex business models. (If only the CofE powers that be could take this into account!!)
Collapse competitively
Rowan on Pullman’s book
Five ways the Google Book settlement will change the future of reading.
The art of dying well, with Jesus.
TBTM20100405
Task for the week: finish the book. Word count is presently a shade under 55,000. I don’t expect the word count to change significantly, but hopefully by the end of the week it will look much more polished.
In the mean time, some links:
The implications of unmeasurable capital
The Shirky principle (“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”) See also the linked article on the collapse of complex business models. (If only the CofE powers that be could take this into account!!)
Collapse competitively
Rowan on Pullman’s book
Five ways the Google Book settlement will change the future of reading.
The art of dying well, with Jesus.
For the word of the Lord endureth for ever
(h/t Kathryn)
Sacraments and social action
Doug has an outstanding post here, explaining why belief in bodily resurrection, sacramental worship, and social action are a seamless robe.
“If the tomb is not empty, though, then surely sacraments and social action are alike in vain. Our corporeal existence has no future, and only our souls or spirits matter, while bodily life is to be left behind. Only if the tomb is empty, if Jesus has been bodily raised from the dead, do sacraments make any sense, or caring for the earth have any value.”
Christ is Risen! Magnificent!
Where next for the Anglican Communion?
My latest Learning Supper talk is now posted on my other blog.
TBTM20100401
Above us only sky.
Some links:
The curse of bigness
Notes from the tangled Anglican web
Graphic information on armies
Government incompetence #3,491: motorcycle tests
In their infinite wisdom, the government decided to change how motorcycle testing was carried out. Partly this was in response to EU legislation, which mandates a particular test needing to be carried out at 31mph (because of course the EU runs on kph). So part of the test – supposed to represent urban conditions – requires the trainee motorcyclist to break the law in order to pass. I kid you not.
Turns out that MPs agree that it’s a shambles.
I’m one of the people affected – to take my practical test (two parts) I’d have to do an hour and a half’s journey to Bury St Edmunds just to get started. Under the previous regime I’d only have to do the twenty minutes into Colchester – and the Colchester training sites all seem to have shut down. Good old government – more bureaucracy, less jobs, less happiness all around. Nice one.
I think that – along with thousands of other people – I’m going to stick to my L plates for some time to come.
Government incompetence #3,491: motorcycle tests
In their infinite wisdom, the government decided to change how motorcycle testing was carried out. Partly this was in response to EU legislation, which mandates a particular test needing to be carried out at 31mph (because of course the EU runs on kph). So part of the test – supposed to represent urban conditions – requires the trainee motorcyclist to break the law in order to pass. I kid you not.
Turns out that MPs agree that it’s a shambles.
I’m one of the people affected – to take my practical test (two parts) I’d have to do an hour and a half’s journey to Bury St Edmunds just to get started. Under the previous regime I’d only have to do the twenty minutes into Colchester – and the Colchester training sites all seem to have shut down. Good old government – more bureaucracy, less jobs, less happiness all around. Nice one.
I think that – along with thousands of other people – I’m going to stick to my L plates for some time to come.