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I was struck in my reading of Mark’s gospel over the last few weeks that “For all the strong protestations of loyalty by the men (14:31) at the end it was the women who saw it through”. Ouch! William Booth who founded the Salvation army once said that his best men are the women. Peter, […]
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When you hire a car you are insured but there is usually a huge excess – typically £1,000. At the airport the sales agent will often ask would you like an “excess waiver insurance” or words to that effect. That will often add £10 per day to the hire price – clearly where they make […]
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Giffgaff* is a new mobile phone company on the O2 network. They offer SIM only pay as you go and are very cheap. You keep your old unlocked phone, pop in one of their SIM cards (order here), activate it online and off you go. When you first activate it, you have to top up […]
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I recently rebuilt www.keepchickens.info on the WordPress platform with over 200 pages and it was slow to load. Very slow www.pingdom.com put it at between 9.4 secs and 15 secs – ouch. Consequently the hits went down 28.3% over the first month – even more ouch. The site was built around pages with no blog […]
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I found myself enjoying Good to Grow far more than I thought I would. It was chock full of pithy principles that Steve has used to grow King’s in Catford and himself. I was surprised, because Steve is one of the most task oriented people I have met and I am relationally wired – probably […]
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The calendar-list shortcode has two new features – limit to one category and number of weeks to show To get the shortcode code simply go to the category page on the Calendar admin page… Click on the “Category List” link on the calendar page and then simply select and copy the right shortcode for the […]
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It took some boiling down, but here’s how to grab directions from Google and display them using PHP [code] function google_directions($start,$end,$mode=’driving’,$units=’imperial’,$region) { /* $start is the start address $end is the end address $mode can be ddriving,walking or bicycling $units can be metric or imperial $region biases the address geolocation to a region – use […]
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The Church I lead has plateaued. It is pretty common with church plants. They grow rapidly at the start, because they are so hungry for growth they are the most welcoming and friendly church in the area. For eighteen months or so the growth is rapid and consists of those who are new to the […]
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I recently had a problem running a php script which had an include() in it using cron. It worked fine in normal testing, but not as a cron job. The reason is that when browser testing the working diorectory is the script’s directory. Cron uses the php location as the working directory, so the relative […]
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Here’s number 4 in the list of the most intriguing changes in the new edition of the NIV (from Bible Gateway) Psalm 23 is a majestic Psalm of beautiful language and comfort ever since it was penned! Older versions conveyed its’ beauty with lyrical, rhythmic phrasing like the “valley of the shadow of death,” which […]