UC Berkley have released some course lectures and other talks over at Google Video. Nice way of promoting your yourself, while also being useful to some. See UC Berkeley on Google Video.

Soccer prize-giving today for the kids football club this morning, followed by the end of year BBQ at the club for one of the kids soccer teams. Sitting still for a couple of hours, followed by kids vs. parent touch rugby and soccer has left me hobbling a little – It was the glorious run…

Presented last night for the (semi-regular) meeting of the Auckland group of STAANZ (NZ systematic theology association) held at the Methodist Ministry Training Unit right in the centre of town. The presentation came out of the final section of the thesis (and some random ideas that generated recently) and was entitled “Living in the borderlands…

Up to my ears in footnotes (interesting anatomical imagery comes to mind) so haven’t had much time recently for blogging. However, a few random thoughts at the end of the day. Congratulations to the Black Ferns for winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup for the third successive time. Awesome. Wellington 26 – Canterbury 24. Someone…

Andrew Butcher has posted a variety of links on his blog to a new Massey University report he co-authored about immigrants to NZ facing discrimination when seeking employment in spite of being well (or over) qualified. See Immigrants face employment discrimination. The full report: Butcher, Spoonley and Trlin (2006) Being Accepted: The Experience of Social Exclusion…

It was Father’s Day last Sunday here in NZ and my family, knowing me like they do, gave me a DVD containing the three “robot” episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man. I have been since explaining to my children that when I was their age the show permeated all of my childhood existence. We…

Mary Hess has a good point about the nature of science with respect to the reclassification of Pluto recently. True science continually articulates and revises its view of the world – it is dynamic rather than static. To keep Pluto as a planet, because that’s what all the textbooks in schools say, defeats the nature…

Bodyhack: Footballers Save Umbilical Cords. Only was a matter of time before it happened, I guess. I wonder what other sorts of profession are doing it.