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Mumblings and musings.
Random thoughts about maemo this week. No obvious theme or big rant. Just what My Mo has been up to, and what I’ve been thinking.The first is that a Lot of people on maemo.org have got very hot under...
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Boldly going... where I never thought I’d go.
I’ve been reflecting this week on the extent to which I am a different person from the one who took delivery of My Mo. Back in October, when I placed the order for my n900, I knew very little beyond...
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We are... MeeGo?
Those of us who live in the West generally look a little mystified and uneasy when there’s talk of arranged marriages. Living in a society where at best people choose their own spouse and at worst...
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Is all noise bad noise?
Over the last couple of days there’s been a range of discussions about who and what exactly MeeGo is (are). Discussions have begun about whether there will be a council, a summit and what, if anything...
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I'm still here. Honest!
I posted to a thread at t.mo. yesterday, and was surprised to cause a bit of a stir. Not by my content (which was fairly uncontroversial) but by the fact that I posted at all. I hadn’t realised that...
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Candidating for the Council - whatever next!
So I'm standing for Council! Who'd have thunk it just a year ago when I turned up at t.m.o. and posted a thread roughly titled "N900 - convince me"?I thought I probably ought to blog about why, but...
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Reflections on Meego Conference.
Well, I'm back from Dublin. I'm sure there will be lots of really valuable reflection on the technical stuff, the marketing stuff and the code. But as a bear of very little brain, I thought I'd take a...
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A Great Idea(pad)
I stood there in the queue to receive my Conference Freebee Idea-pad fully expecting to be turned away. These devices were for the devs to work on, no?The Nice Man from Intel who was handing out...
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When your world falls in.
Over my many years in ministry I've worked with all sorts of people dealing with all sorts of losses – many of them utter tragedies. The pain of loss is different for each person, and never to be...
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The Nokia Revolution.
Watching events unfold on the world stage, I find myself wondering exactly how much responsibility lies in the hands of the Finns.Once their goal was to put a phone into the hands of every citizen of...
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Seven Reasons why I believe Jesus WOULD have mocked the “Rapture” prediction.
There's some talk online about whether those of us poking gentle fun at the whole “Rapture” business today are being unkind and unChristian. Jesus, they say, wouldn't mock the Rapture. Well, actually,...
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The N9 is Announced
So Nokia have finally announced the shiny new N9, the next in their Open Source line of devices, and maybe the last. Allowing for a fairly normal lead time, it should hit markets about two years after...
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Flying Tonight
For the last two or three weeks, I've been battling the Black Dog. Those who know me well know that I suffer from chronic depression with acute patches. Those who meet me fleetingly find this hard to...
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Because they can
Many people have commented and speculated on the recent events in the UK, which are being referred to as riots, criminal action, feral youth rampaging.. call it what you will.For those readers not in...
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The Invisible Dog-collar
You know, I'd almost forgotten I wear it. I so seldom wear a real clerical collar, and working in the NHS, far fewer people see me through the lens of “clergyperson” so I'd got used to being seen as...
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R.I.P. Mo – so what next
I've been thinking about a new phone for a few weeks, having realised that my n900 was having charging issues. They came to a head on Friday night when he was unable to charge. I removed the cable,...
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A very quiet 'Yay!'
Not often I actually write a blog post about me, but I suppose this is the place it happens when it happens. So this post is about me. And is a rather subdued celebration.I'm going to talk about...
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None of my business but...
Somehow it hurts.I remember back in 2002 when we were debating the proposed Anglican-Methodist Covenant, I was the awkward bugger who stood up in our local District Synod and voiced the question "If...
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Papacy: No country for old men
First off, if you came here looking for a eulogy for Pope Benedict, you found the wrong page. I didn't know much about the man, was wary of his life-story, and what little of his theology I...
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Emergency Health Care – what do we really want?
There's yet another report today about emergency care, out of hours care, GP care... I've been sitting on my fingers resisting writing so long that my fingers are numb. So here goes.I want to start...
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