Been laid low for the last few weeks with a virus (hence lack of blogging). However things are looking up now and energy levels are coming back up to normal. That’s the little b*gger (cytomegalovirus) in the 3D model. Amazing how something that small can completely topple you over. Been trying to think of some…

Here’s an intereting Kiwi article from Wired News that talks about developing new photo technology to help photgraph NZ endangered frogs. Wired News: Kissing a Mirror to Find a Frog

Prodical has blogged a few times on the need for space for communities and individuals to “breathe.” (Most recently Listen to the silent crowds) As I spend a bit of time each week stuck in Auckland’s traffic jams I think that we will never solve them because they provide some of that space. One person…

Nice little Flash interactive game thing at Albino Blacksheep – Flash / Grow . Put things together in different ways to get a new thing – eclectic emergent metaphors anyone?

The secret life of a rubber duck. A Duck’s Tale is a cute CGI animation of a rubber duck weighing in at a hefty 10Mb (MPEG-4 format). I’m trying to think of how I can use it in class because it’s just so cute – maybe something about the human need for love and relationships?

First day lecturing in the new semester today. New college (Carey Baptist College) and a new course Humanity and Hope – “An exploration of the Christian understanding of the nature of human beings and the concept of Christian hope.” Some really good topics here including the nature of the human person, understandings of the soul…

Congratulations to Steve Taylor who got the big “thumbs up” to his PhD oral yesterday. Why don’t you drop on by e~mergent kiwi: Examiners recommendations and leave a message for him.

Too tired to blog anything much for the next few days. Went to the discussion day with Brian Walsh at Cityside Baptist yesterday. Intellectually stimulating as well as a good time to talking and eating with all sorts of interesting people (including Paul). Big thanks to Andrew (at CCSP) and Mark (at Cityside) for putting…

The new university year rolls around and it’s been 15 years since I began my postgraduate journey (with a few years off here and there not studying). So in honour of what seems like a fairly momentous anniversary for me here a quick class snap and a link to some from my fourth year computer…

There’s an interesting article in this week’s Listener magazine: NZ Listener | State of the nation by Ranginui Walker which argues that ‘Rather than a dangerous “drift towards racial separatism”, all the evidence points in the other direction.’ (For those of you outside of NZ the “Rip Van Winkle” character in the article is Dr.…