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While the media is debating over Mel Gibson’s The Passion, there’s another new film about this Son of God that has attracted much less controversy. According to this article, Gospel of John has just been released. It is based on the actual text of John’s gospel in the Good News Bible translation, and all the [...]

It was Chinese’s Mid Autumn festival yesterday, but to those who live on the southern side of equator, it was actually the Mid-Spring. It’s the time to have family gathering and enjoy moon cakes. Back in Taiwan there were lots of activities going on, but here in Australia, it was just another day. Last night [...]

Friday! Tonight – Mid-Autumn Festival evangelistic talk by Tim @ MBF. Tomorrow – Asian AIM. Sunday – Revelation 12 and John 19. I’ll try this week’s Friday Five which is on ‘name’. Is the name you have now the same name that’s on your birth certificate? If not, what’s changed?No. I did not have an [...]

I’ve just received an email, documenting someone’s support call on installing this new piece of software called ‘Love 2.0′. I happened to download the Linux version of the same software from somewhere, and it appears to work similarly to its Windows counter part.

I’ve downloaded this Camino theme that transforms the standard Aqua look ‘n’ feel into the metal theme of the iLife applications. If you prefer the rendering capability of Camino, its Mozilla roots, and superior Javascript engine, but the metal look of Safari attracts you, then you might like this theme. However, don’t expect it to [...]

Not! Well. Weekend was great. I think as it moves closer to the end of year, it gets less hectic. It is still busy at work, but with church I suddenly felt not so pressured (as opposite to Tim who is preparing for the talk this week). I actually slept quite early yesterday – partially [...]

Well. Friday night. 15 minutes pass five. Spending half my day writing a Javascript tool. Anyway, weekend is coming. I will be watching “Finding Nemo” at Randwick Ritz with the other MBF dudes later tonight. Going to Danny and Pansy’s wedding tomorrow at St. Matthias. Inviting Jack and Virginia over tomorrow night for dinner to [...]

Last night we have bumped into two individuals whom we haven’t met for ages. Quite a surprise. First of all, we caught David in Target at Eastern Gardens. David joined Mandarin Bible Fellowship for one year in 2001, when the Mandarin ministry on the campus was just about to take off. He was the guy [...]

While Vivian was using my iBook tonight, she put it into sleep, and when she woke it up 3 hours later, she could not log out! The BBoD (beach ball of death) appears, and Finder just refuses to quit. Well. It is not the first time happening to me, but it is so annoying when [...]

Still in its infancy, but I might work on it whenever I have time… Movable Style – a collection of cascading style sheets for the stock Movable Type templates Nothing much is over there at the moment, except a PHP script that lets me switch between different style sheets easily. Anyone got a nice looking [...]

Everytime I talked to my mum on the phone, she would ask me at least these three things. When are you coming to visit us? When are you and Vivian having a baby? and When are you buying a house? My usual answers are, soon, soon and soon. We will be going back to Taiwan [...]

Yesterday I have been trying to get Firebird to run on my old webserver, which is currently running stock Mandrake 9 with 2.4.19 kernel. Not the Mozilla Firebird web browser, but the forked and open sourced Interbase database server. That’s the database server I have been using everyday at work, so I am reasonable familiar [...]

I read through the first few chapters of Bill Hybels’ Courageous Leadership on Sunday (recommended from SCEA training day), and I found it is difficult for me to read it as a “Christian book”. I think it might be something wrong with my definition of “Christian books“, i.e. must be gospel centred, Bible centred, evangelistic, [...]