The next time you’re feeling a bit poor, have a look at this… http://www.globalrichlist.com/ I put in my figured and discovered the following You are in the top 0.843% richest people in the world. There are 5,949,392,910 people poorer than you. How do you feel about that? A bit richer we hope. Please consider donating just a small amount to help some of the poorest people in the world. Many of their lives could be…
It’s Saturday night and I’m watching “The Comedy Channel”. They’ve just had a terrific stand up special featuring Ellen de Generes and now it’s “The Man Show” which is an all-time classic. “The Bill” will be on shortly. But just when you thought my life was just sitting at home watching television and updating my blog, there is some good news: I’m going out to a party later on tonight. That said, the last week…
It’s Monday night and I’ve just had dinner, at the end of a long and stressful day. Work has been “full on” today, although not as stressful as I thought it might be. Nonetheless, I’m a little tired and stressed and my plan for an “alcohol free week” has fallen through. The last week or so has been strongly focussed on work. With lots of things happening, including lots of change, I’m working long hours…
It’s lunchtime Sunday and I’m feeling a bit hungry. Yes I know I should eat, but I have lots to say about what was a reasonably interesting and busy week in my life. I spent the week travelling to Adelaide and Perth for work reasons, although of course there was a persona element to the Perth trip as well. There’s not a lot to report about the trip to Adelaide, aside from the fact that…
Aside from watching “Astro Boy” as a child, and more recently occasionally browsing at the Channel 10 Breakfast cartoons, I’ve never really had much of an interest in, nor experience of watching Japanese animation. And I guess the only reason I went to this was because it was the closing night of the Sydney Film Festival and there was the associated prospect of boozing and schmoozing. Actually it was with some dread that Damien and…
Although I’d heard about John Shelby Spong as being a fairly liberal Christian, I wasn’t really aware of the detail of his theology until I read this book on a flight between Sydney and Adelaide. Yes, while the rest of the plane was reading the Da Vinci Code, I was reading another book which seeks to provide an alternative reading of the Christian story… although, of courser, a lot of Christians would argue both are…