1. BBC apologizes for erroneous reporting on Israel
2. Solution sought over embryo vote
3. views.py for wikinear.com
4. SkySails Test Results In! 20% Fuel Savings!
5. Brown criticised over embryo bill
6. Interactive console in Pydev
7. Ubuntu 8.04 Gets Ready for Beta
8. Q&A time!
9. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS COMING TO CARNOUSTIE
10. First church inaugurated in Qatar
11. Carnoustie bay
12. Special Post--from How to Know God Exists
13. UPDATED RELEASE: 2.0 Beta 1 (Mar 14, 2008)
14. Celebrating St Andrew's Day
15. The Tools Google Uses Internally
16. UPDATED WIKI: v2.0 Beta 1 Release Notes
17. Taking Back Astronomy: The Universe Confirms the Bible
18. Rugby: Scotland shock England
19. Blair to teach in the US on faith
20. Iran debate: Who owns the revolution?

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-03-24 18:36:03.
Categories: Internet, Python, IronPython, Christian Tags : Ubuntu Israel
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Here's another Google Gadget for Lifespring - this fits into your personalised homepage. The schedules starts again on the 10th January.

To help create this and the Google Calendar for LFB, I used IronPython to download the podcast entries and the CPython Interface (with regular Python) to create the Calendar entries.

Click the button to add to your Calendar!

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-01-05 16:51:10.
Categories: Python, Christian, General, Internet, Podcast Tags : LifeSpring Family Bible Podcast Mashup
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2 months later... back blogging and even a bit of Python!

This weekend I had an idea to mashup Google calendar, IronPython, Python, the Bible and a podcast. With help from Lifespring's Steve Webb, I put together the first month of the Lifespring daily reading onto a Google calendar with a link.

Entries start from 10th January 2008 - but you can get them now. After some feedback, the rest of the year will be added.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-12-16 21:04:18.
Categories: Internet, IronPython, Python, Christian
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Yep started a new blog or at at least a big reworking of and old one which despite the name had largely lost its UK focus years ago.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-07-14 22:06:15.
Categories: Christian, Politics Tags : Blog Christian Prophecy
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"The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact." [Paul Althus]

"Christ is risen! With this victorious cry the gospel has passed through the lands. The message of the cross is at the same time a message of resurrection [Acts 1:22; 2:32]. In this lies its invincibility." [Eric Sauer]

"The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins." [John Piper commenting on 1 Corinthians 15:17]

" And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." [Mark 16:6]

"The tomb of Christ is famous because of what it DOES NOT CONTAIN." (Sam Morris)

"Christianity begins where religion ends...with the resurrection." [Anonymous]

"The cross is the victory, the resurrection is the triumph...The resurrection is the public display of the victory, the triumph of the crucified one." [Eric Sauer]

"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the more difficult, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it." [Blaise Pasal]

"For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins." [1 Corinthians 15:16, 17]

More Quotes

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-04-08 21:05:42.
Categories: Christian Tags : Resurrection
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I have spent some time this weekend dealing with problems caused by the recent domain name change and shifting some sites onto Blogger. I am nearly there and in the interest of helping people find stuff I am planning a new homepage for Latedecember.co.uk - meantime this blog entry will have to do.

News Sites * MoodNews * UK Prophecy News

Techie * LDBackup * Python Podcasts * BugWatch

Scottish Town Blogs * The Dundee Blog * The Perth Blog * The Angus Blog

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-25 20:34:05.
Categories: Angus, Christian, Python, Podcast, MoodNews, Internet, General
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A PRACTICAL MAN'S PROOF OF GOD

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-18 19:43:54.
Categories: General, Christian
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This is so sad on so many levels with the hate emails being the worst.

SEATTLE -- The Anti-Defamation League is sending a letter to some local synagogues, asking them to increase security in light of hate e-mails the group has received after a decision by Sea-Tac Airport to take down Christmas trees.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-12-11 22:39:03.
Categories: Christian, Politics Tags : Christmas Seattle Synagogues
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Some general comments before the list itself, firstly I am fairly biased against music shows. Secondly much content is re-packaged radio shows so I have slightly favoured original podcasts. I also drop shows rather quickly (otherwise I get a backlog) and I avoid shows that require any sort of registration, so I may have missed some gems. Please let me know

*Top Seven Christian Podcasts*

7. LifeSpring Hymn Stories - A short Devotional with good music and the often surprising tale behind well known hymns.

6. The Whole Truth - This daily devotional show has a short scripture reading. Well produced and just a few minutes a day.

5. Stand's To Reason - This is a radio show but the call-in format suits podcasting fairly well.

4. Zola Levitt - These are TV broadcast's of the Messianic Jew Zola Levitt which have been mixed for audio. Good recording out on location and an episode every weekday.

3. Sixty-Six Forty - Expositional teaching by Chuck Missler. 5 a week and of a small file size but 25 minutes a lesson.

2. Way Of The Master - Radio show edited for Podcasting. This is a heavy weight with around 10 hours a week of content. The street witnessing and preaching is really addictive listening.

1. LifeSpring Original Show - Also the original Christian content created for podcasting. Great production values and an entertaining host in Steve Webb.

Please send some suggestions so I can update this to a top 10.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-11-30 22:12:49.
Categories: Christian, Podcast, Internet
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Reddit used to be quite good fun. Unfortunately it suffers from a social averaging which means there is a common slant to what is posted so no matter what personalisation algorithm is used the content is rather samey. The average Reddit submitter seems to be a young, morally liberal, left of centre, atheist or new ager. Without a wider group the content is a bit samey. To be fair, this is maybe just my experience as the site changes so often

The comments are okay on Reddit. Usually short, few and some witty ones. The atheists are pretty vocal. As I have been one in the past, I have some sympathy with their views. However I am baffled by the attempt to redefine the word atheist! It means you believe there is no god(s). They seem to want to sound 'spiritual but not religious' and have their cake and eat it. Stick to your guns guys! And on the topic of guns, there seems an inevitable jump between a religious claim of exclusivity and violence. Whilst I am convinced this happens and history documents it, the claim that the link inevitable is not true. Logically why can't a faith claim there is only the way but be really nice to everyone who doesn't accept it? Atheists like their logic. Sometimes.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-11-22 13:20:56.
Categories: Christian, Internet Tags : atheists atheism reddit
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I read this (short) Psalm at Church today. Struck me how bloggable it was. Here's the first of the three verses.

BLB Psa 133(Link) ''[[A Song of degrees of David.]] Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!''

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-08-20 22:28:02.
Categories: Christian, Angus, Personal Tags : bloggable psalm church verses unity
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The Da Vinci Deception - 66/40 - K-House(Link) ''Dan Brown's bestselling book, The DaVinci Code is a real page-turner but constitutes an intentional and very malicious attack on the person of Jesus Christ and Christianity. It has caused much confusion among those inadequately informed about the origins of the Gospels and the history of the early church.''

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-06-14 20:03:46.
Categories: Podcast, Christian Tags : DaVinci Deception Code Christianity Gospel JesusChrist Jesus DanBrown
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