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Foghorn response

In today’s Guardian was a response to a comment article I discussed a couple of weeks ago.
Loud but not clear is clearly from the moderate atheist camp and isn’t anything surprising - worth a read if only for encouragement about where the atheist camp could head to.

A month of blogging

I’ve really enjoyed the last ‘month of blogging’.  I originally set out to blog every day for lent.  In reality I managed roughly half a blog a day, which I still think is pretty good.  So what have I learned and confirmed from the experience?
Writing on a blog takes time and discipline.  With a full [...]

To buy or rent; have tangibly or intangibly?

It’s a pretty odd transition for one to make.  Even in our heavily consumer focused culture, it seems that many people like to own a tangible asset.  Buying a right isn’t the same as owning.  A file on a computer isn’t the same as something that arrives in a box.
I’m particularly thinking about music in [...]

Cooking and baking

I really enjoy cooking and baking.  More so when I have plenty of time and I’m doing it with others.  Tonight I made a vegetarian thai green curry and some white chocolate and cranberry cookies - both in the company of my new flatmate NJ, who was a helpful assistant and attentive learner (she has [...]

A little bit of legend

From 1996 though until 1998 I attended Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge.  During that time I studied for five A-levels, took 4 A-levels, learnt how to party, partied, and plotted a legendary prank.
We were inspired by some Cambridge engineering students who had, the story went, placed a car on top of a university [...]