Archive for September 2007

Friday, 21st September 2007

God = Holy

When I was praying last night, I said the Lord’s Prayer and the first line of it really hit. What does ‘hallowed be your name’ (Luke 11:2) really mean. I had a good think/meditate and I think it can mean several and wonderful things!

Looking at it in different Bible translations:
hallowed be your name (NIV, NASB)
may your name always be kept holy (NCV)
may your name be kept holy (Living)
and in the Message (wow!) Reveal who you are

#1 May God’s name always be kept holy and honoured - don’t use it in vain/to swear. Ok, I think this is what I’d first think of, but I think there’s another very important meaning that helps us do this.

#2 The Message ‘Reveal who you are’ sort of says it. In the times of the Bible (and in many cultures today) your name isn’t just what you’re called, it sums up who you are and what you do. So God having the name of ‘Holy’ means that he is holy!

In Isaiah’s vision of Heaven, he sees the Seraphim (heavenly beings / a type of angel) and their continual song is: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)

In the Jewish culture, to call something/someone a name three times means that they are perfectly/fully/totaly that quality, so God is amazingly and wonderfully holy!

By getting my head round this, it made me realise how important honouring and valuing his HOLY name really is.

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Friday, 14th September 2007

wordpress stats pt2

In a previous post, I talked about quick stats. My new wordpress stat plugin of choice is Counterize II.

It gives good simple bar graphs and you can control who much of what is shown on the page! It also pops a nice little ‘hits’ box on the dashboard.

by james in Tech, Work | No Comments »

Friday, 14th September 2007

songbird, from the guys behind winamp …

… with some good stuff by mozilla/vlc/lots of other clever people!

I was installing this: http://userstyles.org/styles/2318 in FF this morning (and wow it’s nice, makes google reader even better ;-) and saw in the list of supported programs ‘songbird‘. Not heard of that I thought. A new things from mozilla?! So after a google I found: http://songbirdnest.com/ and even though it’s still in developer build, it looks very impressive.

Imported my itunes library (except things from the itunes store) great, found all the vids on my system (in all formats but doesn’t seem to like flv at the mo) and plays things very nicely. And it’s SO FAST! There’s no lag at all when clicking to play videos or music.

And having surfing as built in (but using a decent browser) is also great. Think of it like having firefox, itunes and divx in one program! I’ve not tried the ipod support yet…

Once this gets into a fully working program, I think it’s gonna turn a lot of heads!

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

A worrying stat…

It turns out I’m 75% addicted to blogging. I didn’t think it would be that much!

75%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Oh the feeds, the feeds ;-)

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

new bits for Google Reader!

I use the nice Google Reader to read the many many feeds I’m subscribed to and, of course, I’m subscribed to the official google reader news feed!

Well, they put this post out last night on the new bits for google reader and I like google, thanks!!!

My fav feature only gets a small mention, but it’s a little grey arrow that allows you to read post items full page width, great for posts with big images in them!

Keep up the good stuff google, one happy user here.

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