As I mentioned yesterday, I'm hoping that the blogging will be increasing significantly now that we've moved into our apartment and I have internet access. It seems that now is a good time to reflect on the direction of this...
My apologies for such a long delay between posts. We arrived in Brisbane 2 weeks ago, and have been apartment hunting, opening bank accounts, getting Medicare, etc. and buying all those things that we decided not to bring. We've been...
Well, after a busy final few weeks, we are now in Wellington spending sometime with the parents before moving to Brisbane mid January. The last weeks were rather busy with me having to go down to Middlemore or the vicinity...
So blogging has been light again. Last Monday I managed to break a finger playing indoor cricket, which has somewhat curtailed it. My typing speed is slower, but still okay, however, over the last week I have spent a lot...
It's been rather busy over the last month. The main catalyst for this is that Tina and I are moving to Brisbane in early January. This is intended to be a permanent move, not just an OE, but of course...
On Tuesday we went on the Best of the Bay cruise, also known as the original "Cream Trip". It is run by Fullers, and involves a cruise around a large part of the Bay of Islands, including a stop at...
So after heading up to the Cape last Sunday, we spent Monday driving around the Bay of Islands area having a look around (and checking that the vineyards were of adequate quality...). The weather was fairly crap, thus limiting us...
So on Sunday we did a trip up to Cape Reinga from Paihia with the Dune Rider people. It starts in Paihia, and first stop (after hunting around for 1/2 hour for some people who got lost) was the Puketi...
I've just got back from a short holiday in the Bay of Islands. Tina and I went up to Paihia for 5 days, and did a fair amount of sight-seeing. We did a day trip up to Cape Reinga including...
I had my first game of Indoor Cricket for over 5 years tonight. I used to play frequently during high school and university, but haven't played at all since moving to Auckland. It was a lot of fun, but I...
I have no intention of starting some sort of religious war over blogging software, but I thought I briefly describe why I decided to use Moveable Type over some alternatives. Really it was fairly simple. I wanted a replacement for...
As you may have noticed, there have been a few changes here. Let me explain. For a few years now my website has been hosted by a company called ReadyHosting. They provide Windows-based hosting for a reasonable price. Up until...
I'm off to Waikanae very shortly to spend some time with my Wife's family. I'll probably have limited or no internet access until early next week, so probably no blogging until then....
Given that the number of comments on this blog has increased recently, I think it's time to explicitly state my commenting policy. 1. Who has the right to post comments on this blog? Other than me, no one has the...
One of the benefits of hosting my site independently of BlogSpot is that I get to see all the referrers and particularly the search terms used to find my site.These can be quite interesting.Somehow someone managed to find my site...
The company that hosts this site, ReadyHosting, has been migrating all their sites to a new hosting platform over the past 4 months or so. I got an e-mail about 5 days ago saying that they would be migrating mine...
About a month or so ago I decided to add a recent comments feature to my blog. After searching the internet, the only solutions that I found basically were client-side only. When you published, you would invisibly publish all comments...
As you may have heard, the US Justice Department has issued a subpoena to Google, AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft, ordering them to turn over some search logs and a list of indexed web sites for a period last year. The...
My former flatmate, Shane Blackett, is getting married next Saturday, so we're having his stag party tonight.It will probably be quite tame (especially compared to mine), but should still be a lot of fun....
Using MailBucket, some RSS feeds, and a lot of hacky PHP, I have managed to get recent posts showing on the main page so we can actually recent updates more easily, especially as my posts seem to roll down the...
I had a bit of a rant on Friday when my new Dell laptop arrived, but the hard drive was faulty, and I spent several hours on the phone waiting in their priority queues before talking to incompetent technicians.Well, the...
I've just made some significant changes to the layout of this site, to hopefully make things a bit more usable. The most obvious changes are moving the info bar to the left side of the page instead of the right...
I've had my existing laptop for just over three years now - it has been fairly well used, but is nearing the end of its life. It's now dog slow, has a fairly small hard drive, small monitor resolution, and...
This is my copyright and acknowledgment statement to attempt to clarify the copyright situation for all the material on this website. A permanent link to this statement can now be found at the bottom of all pages.Copyright First of all,...
I had a long chat with James and Susan Webber last night, currently based in Bristol, UK. You can follow their OE adventures on their website.I first met James and Susan (separately then) at Massey University way back in 1998,...
Old timers to this site will be aware that I have written a number of articles over the last few years. Due to differences in how BlogSpot works, I will be slowly bring these back online over the next few...
Well, since I haven't got around to posting anything here for such a long time, I thought I'd make a few changes.First of all, I'm now using BlogSpot to run the blog, rather than my own hacky ASP implementation, that...
Since 2000 I have been writing a number of articles, predominantly on theological or apologetical (is that a word?) topics. While all can be found via the archives or searching the site, the purpose of this page is provide an...
My name is Dave Bryant and I am the author, maintainer, and sometimes philosopher of this website. I have strong interests in theology, politics, and software development, and so my various ramblings on these subjects can be found here.The Story...
If you've found this page then you've found my todo list for future enhancements for this website. Normally I would store this on my personal machine, but as I regularly use at least 3 computers these days, it's much easier...
Sorry, the page you requested could not be found on the Clouds of Heaven site (in technical jargon, an HTTP 404 error occurred).If you were directed here via a broken link on this website, please let me know so I...
My name is Dave Bryant, the author and sometimes philosopher of this website. I've been writing about theology and apologetics for the last few years and recently starting rambling a bit about politics and software development as well. More about me or contact me.
There is a complete archive of all articles I have written going back to 2000, and links to the most popular articles are available directly in this sidebar. New articles and other ramblings will first appear on the main page, and through the RSS feed (what is RSS?).
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