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Just a bit of fun. Here's my cabinet based on the short questionnaire. You took the Political Animal quiz on www.susa.info, and your personalised cabinet of political characters was: William Wilberforce You basically accept that Christian political action will be necessary on all fronts if we are going to have a fair and righteous society. The law should reflect both Godly moral foundations and practical concern for the poor. This approach is epitomised by the campaigning parliamentarian William Wilberforce, who led the drive to abolish the slave trade and restore the 'manners' (ie moral foundations) of Britain. Oliver Cromwell The most committed political activist needs to recognise that there are limits to what can be achieved by politics alone. Ideals can too easily become idols, and some things will never change without an inward work of salvation in people's lives. Puritan parliamentarian leader Oliver Cromwell used the power of the state and military ...

I can't help but think Prezi looks pretty cool. I'm looking forward to having a play around with it at some point in the future.

Apparently there is going to be a General Election. Vote For Policies is a interesting site - my result is a relief, I was worried I was going to be outed as a Green! My results are here

Yearbook Yourself is a bit of mindless entertainment. Here's me with a great mullet in the 1980's! Off for a week on the Sunny Isle of Wight to make the most of this Barbeque summer!

Marsha snapped this pic of me head and shoulders above those around me. This was in Rome and suddenly I was surrounded by a Japanese tour party. While very wet it made me smile!

I saw this on the news last night and loved watching the farmer changing his mind about chasing the bull. Glad to see it on Youtube.

I am trying to work out why no one has told me about spotify before now!! It is too good to be true and I suspect it will not be long before it disappears down the same route as Pandora, or before some points out that it is illegal, or that it is a clever heist to get to passwords etc... but for now it is there for you to enjoy wall to wall music of your choice. " Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want...." Currently listening to Pat Metheny - " oo get down aa jazz!"

I stumbled across this site with pictures of unusual churches. Part 1 and part 2 give you 40 different unusual church designs. No sign of Chelmsford SA as of yet!

OK - there is a bit of a waste of time that I enjoy. Soccer manager It's out now, I've told you, now that feels so much better!! We're in league 1441 and FC Schalke 04 are currently top of the table and available!

OK of very little worth and a complete waste of time. But if you did happen to play for Brazil what would your name be? A bit of fun here Yours sincerely Cottereiro da Costa!

Animoto looks like it could be a fun resource to play with. Here's what they say about themselves. "Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button. Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same. Many of the post-production techniques that the founders used while working as producers for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC are used in Animoto's patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor and director. The resulting video is produced in a widescreen format, containing the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer."

I'm sat enjoying Coldplay on BBC2. I was surprised to see Pernell from the FRWY drumming. Man he has improved since I heard him drumming at the FRWY in March!

I fell in love with Africa when I lived in Kenya 26 years ago, someone sent me this as an email - I miss Africa! | View | Upload your own

Websites like this should be banned!! Stick cricket Be warned!

simpsonizeme is a bit of mindless fun! This is me as a Simpson character!

There have been some very long meetings this week, with lots of singing and a fair bit of clapping too. Is this just a UK thing or is this worldwide? When a classic hymn is sung that has high clapability, the general rule of thumb is that the congregation will do a united on the beat clap. Conversely when - dare I say - a more contemporary song or chorus is sung that equally is clapable a congregation will slip into an off beat mode of clapping. Well I stand before you as an independent clapper, I refuse to be institutionalised and bullied by the crowd. I proudly defied institution by employing a off beat clap for the traditional songs and a determined on beat clap for the contemporary songs. Will you join me? Stand up for your rights and be an independent clapper! Let Google find us by posting "I am an independent Clapper....!" in the subject, let people know - let the revolution being!

I pushed 'send' and immediately... kind of regretted it! A strange exchange of emails happened today. Before I realised it, I was communicating with world famous Christian author Gordon MacDonald. I thought I was in communication with his publisher but it became apparent that I was talking to GMAC (to his friends) himself. A shared first name that, let's face it is not that trendy, led to an anecdote of his walking in the Alps and discovering that Gordon means 'he that climbs...', I reciprocated of course by sending him a youtube link to Jilted John's 1978 punk classic 'Gordon is a Moron!' with the story of my informative years at a roughish inner city school! Anyone with the first name Gordon who didn't suffer Jilted John's prose for years at secondary school - needs to know what I went through! I would have hated for world famous Christian author Gordon MacDonald to have missed out.

Someone emailed me these photos and they made me smile.